August 2010
19 posts
Ali Abunimah on Palestinian-Israeli Peace Talks:...
There is no neutral.
As Judith Butler wrote of her visit to Israel many years ago, “the rector of Tel Aviv University said, ‘Look how lucky we are. Judith Butler has come to Tel Aviv University, a sign that she does not accept the boycott,’ I was instrumentalized against my will. And I realized I cannot function in that public space without already being defined in the boycott debate. So there is no escape from it....
“Palestinian communities suffer from very high levels of unemployment,...”
– The rich tapestry of Israeli apartheid
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What is apartheid and how do we know Israel is...
What is apartheid? As defined by the 1973 United Nations convention, apartheid is a policy of racial or ethnic segregation founded on a set of discriminatory practices that favor a specific group in order to ensure its racial supremacy over another group (“International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the crime of Apartheid,” 30 November 1973). In Israel,...
“It is this unspoken and violent background of “ordinary” cultural life that needs to become the explicit object of cultural and political production and criticism. Historically, I see no other choice, since affirming the status quo means affirming the occupation. One cannot “set aside” the radical impoverishment, the malnutrition, the limits on mobility, the intimidation and harassment at the...
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Reflections from Detroit: Standoff with...
“Why did it take so long for the USSF NPC to do what’s right? The delay, I believe, is sadly representative of the state of the US left when it comes to dealing with Palestine. Despite the US left’s commitment to denouncing (and, hopefully, ending) colonialism, racism, militarism, state violence, occupation, sexism, homophobia, and the various interrelated evils of hetero-patriarchy, this “camp”...
WatchTV cameras have captured the terrible moment of a five-year-old Palestinian boy seeing his father arrested by Israeli soldiers, nearby Hebron.
Walking barefoot, the youngster becomes hysterical as he pleads with the troops not to take his father away. One of the soldiers picks up the lad and removes him from the scene before Fadel is driven away in a four-wheel-drive.
Dr Mustafa Barghouthi,...
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Haneen Zoabi: “The largest threat to democracy is...
clingtomymouth:
ei: Haneen Zoabi: “The largest threat to democracy is Zionism”
HZ: This is not a new process, and it didn’t begin after the flotilla. It really began after the second intifada, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Israelis went to demonstrations not to rally about internal issues but to support the intifada. This was a clear message for Israelis that the state had failed to...
