What happens to a small village in the West Bank over the next few weeks will set a precedent about whether Israel will abide by its highest court’s ruling when it comes to dismantling settlements.
Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 07:19
Last night in Tel Aviv, police forcible prevented a group of Israelis from peacefully and silently commemorating the Nakba – the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine. This came just days after hundreds of Israeli high school students caused consternation by loudly cheering for Nazis as they watched a play on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The Israeli government and its supporters now feel justified in exploiting the Syrian people’s suffering and resistance in order to further their own political agenda, depicting Israel as a “vibrant democracy” in comparison to Syria.
In his new book, The Crisis of Zionism, Peter Beinart stops well short of accepting a Palestinian right of return or repudiating the idea that Jews are sovereign in a state where fully a fifth of its citizens are non-Jews.
Jewish dissidents from across the English-speaking world explaining why they, to a greater or lesser extent, support Palestinian rights in Beyond Tribal Loyalties: Personal Stories of Jewish Peace Activists.
Anti-Zionist scholar, writer and longtime activist Tikva Honig-Parnass’s new book False Prophets of Peace: Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine critically analyzes Israel’s left.
Submitted by Asa Winstanley on Tue, 01/10/2012 - 18:02
Paul Flynn’s comments last month were misguided, but the main perpetrators of anti-Semitic ideas about “Jewish loyalty” are the Zionist movement and Israel. BICOM’s chief executive took part in a panel at a Zionist conference in November whose title reflected exactly the same idea.
