Muzzlewatch was always meant to be a team blog. Now it turns out we’ll soon have not just new bloggers, but also various researchers and more. It’s also been wonderful, to work with our friend Richard Silverstein over at Tikun Olam. A longtime activist and thinker in the Jewish peace community, Richard is deeply concerned about these issues and has helped Muzzlewatch immeasurably.We plan on doing original research and more joint projects with him.

Today we’re adding a new, though busy and therefore less frequent blogger on these pages. Andrew Schamess is an uncommonly thoughtful person who has been blogging over at Semitism.net for quite some time now (his mother Stephanie has now joined him as a blogger). Andrew Schamess is a physician in Lenox, Massachusetts and a member of Ahavath Sholom synagogue. He is active in Israel-Palestinian issues. He has traveled to Israel and the West Bank to teach medical students and provide free medical care. In his spare time, he reads medical texts and the Tanakh (Hebrew bible).

There are so many interesting posts at Semitism.net about Jewish scripture, God, losing children and the Combatants for Peace tour, I hardly know where to begin. I am so thrilled to have him join the team.

Today, Andrew offers this tongue-in-cheek post, “Moses: the First Jewish Anti-Semite (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the AJC)” about the AJC’s new pamphlet.

With the new perspective that his pamphlet has given me, I have found evidence of anti-Semitism in some of the most important figures of Jewish history. It’s even there in Jewish scripture!

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