Letters to EI
The Letters to EI section functions in the same way as a newspaper's letter column. Submissions should not exceed 700 words, must state that they are FOR PUBLICATION, include a brief 2-3 line bio, your e-mail and phone number (for verification purposes only), and will be published at the sole discretion of The Electronic Intifada. EI may shorten and edit letters for grammar, with consideration for retaining the integrity of the points made by writers. Send letters to EI here.
Goldstone member to EI: Gaza ambulance shelled "point blank"
Desmond Travers, The Electronic Intifada, 28 January 2010
Desmond Travers, member of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict led by Judge Richard Goldstone, responds to the description of an attack on an ambulance by means of a "dart bomb" to The Electronic Intifada. [MORE]
Don't forget Free Gaza Movement women
Greta Berlin, The Electronic Intifada, 12 January 2010
Although I appreciate Asa Winstanley's warm review of To Gaza with Love (4 January 2010), he left out every woman involved in the organization and founding of the Free Gaza Movement. I'm dismayed that the review shows yet another attempt to turn the story into a "good-old boy tale" instead of what was a primarily a female initiative. [MORE]
Don't conflate liberalism with leftism
Javier Sethness, The Electronic Intifada, 21 October 2009
I felt the need to point out a rather significant confusion of terms to be found in Joseph Shahadi's review of Steven Salaita's The Uncultured Wars: Arabs, Muslims and the Poverty of Liberal Thought, published by The Electronic Intifada on 15 October: that of conflating liberalism with leftism. [MORE]
US Campaign's longstanding endorsement of the boycott call
David Wildman and Amie Fishman, The Electronic Intifada, 21 September 2009
Thanks to Nada Elia for her article "A Turning Point in the US Solidarity Movement" (16 September 2009) and for her important role in cogently laying out the rationale for engaging in cultural and academic boycotts of Israeli institutions during the 8th Annual National Organizers' Conference of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. We broke new ground at this conference by voting to expand the scope of our boycott, divestment and sanctions work to encompass both cultural and academic boycotts of Israeli institutions and campaigns against Israeli corporations profiting from occupation and apartheid. [MORE]
Hampshire officials: investment decision didn't single out Israel
Sigmund Roos, Ralph Hexter and Aaron Berman, The Electronic Intifada, 16 February 2009
The following statement was sent to The Electronic Intifada in response to the 12 February 2009 press release issued by Students for Justice in Palestine at Hampshire College that claimed Hampshire College divested from companies on the grounds of their involvement in the Israeli occupation of Palestine. [MORE]
Why an absolute boycott?
Jerry Roseman and Alia Banna, The Electronic Intifada, 20 May 2008
As regular readers and supporters of The Electronic Intifada and in concert with much of the positions articulated by writers and contributers to EI, we have a question related to the 1 May Adalah-NY press release "Dubai begins to comply with calls to boycott settlement financier," published in EI's Activism news section and which seems to call for an absolute boycott of Israelis in Dubai. [MORE]
Palestine and the Kosovo analogy
Benton Williams, The Electronic Intifada, 26 February 2008
Dear Ali Abunimah: I have long been and continue to be an ardent admirer of your work, particularly your forceful, unflinching regard for truth and justice, no matter who agrees or disagrees. Based on that virtue of yours, I trust you will take my concern over your characterization of the Serbia/Kosovo question with proportionate seriousness. You respond to the Haaretz columns about whether Kosovo is Palestine or Israel by engaging in their debate which is, literally, nonsense. That is, Kosovo is Kosovo and Serbia is Serbia. [MORE]
On Veolia, Bernard Kouchner and humanitarian action
Philippa Burton, The Electronic Intifada, 9 January 2008
I am writing in response to Adri Nieuwhof's various articles on Veolia Transport, and in particular her article on Institut Veolia Environment of 8 December 2006, in which she urges all international experts collaborating with the Institut to end their relationship with it. In the article, Nieuwhof comments: "It is likely that the international experts are not aware of Veolia's involvement in the illegal tramline project in East Jerusalem. A number of them have a track record of respect for international law and human rights, for instance ... Bernard Kouchner ... founder of Medecins Sans Frontieres." [MORE]
Working towards a Palestinian national voice
James Kafieh, The Electronic Intifada, 3 October 2007
Many members of the Palestinian Canadian community have been working hard to establish a truly representative Palestinian National Voice (PNV) organization for our community. Laith Marouf, identifying himself as the chapter coordinator for the student group Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR), on 14 September 2007 published an article attacking this effort (see Palestinian Diaspora: With or against collaboration?). James Kafieh responds. [MORE]
Differing perceptions of Hezbollah
Letters to EI, Samia Halaby, 24 July 2006
Leila Buck's first article on Electronic Intifada was subtitled "I have so many things to say and share I don't know where to start." I feel the same way. Leila feels helpless facing US/Israeli propaganda about brutal war crimes against Arabs. I feel the same way. In her good anger she goes to an extreme to support her argument. One cannot say 90 percent of Lebanese do not support Hezbollah. That is wrong. The rich, much of the middle class indeed do not support Hezbollah. They are not even a majority. [MORE]
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