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“We’re talking about the potential for a second Holocaust here”
Brooklyn College is hosting an event about BDS and a general discussion over Israel and Palestine. Freedom of speech. Academic freedom. And yet (via the New York Times): Brooklyn College, in the Midwood neighborhood, would seem an unlikely place for Jewish students to feel besieged. Nearly a fifth of the undergraduate population is Jewish, and…
My Israel Question Arabic edition released
My first book, My Israel Question, was released in 2006. Nearly seven years after becoming a best-seller, I’m proud to announce that one of the Middle East’s leading publishers, All Prints, has just released an updated Arabic edition. The message of the book has only become more relevant, the importance of challenging the Zionist…
Perhaps the handiest guide to real anti-Semitism you’ll ever read
Yes. (Brilliance from the amazing US cartoonist, Eli Valley, who recent work, The Diary of Dr Loewenstein, inspires me still).
Why Kafka lives in Palestine
Amira Hass in Haaretz: The Israel Defense Forces and the Israeli police in the West Bank will continue trying to convince the High Court of Justice on Monday that the routine of fear in which two elderly farmers live due to attacks by settlers is reasonable and proportionate. In the name of the IDF and…
Israeli “democracy”: giving Ethiopian women birth control without consent
Words fail (via the Independent): Israel has admitted for the first time that it has been giving Ethiopian Jewish immigrants birth-control injections, often without their knowledge or consent. The government had previously denied the practice but the Israeli Health Ministry’s director-general has now ordered gynaecologists to stop administering the drugs. According a report in Haaretz,…
What just happened in Israeli election is many things; true democracy isn’t one of them
The final results of the Israeli election remain unclear. The Institute for Middle East Understanding has produced the following graphic which reveals the democracy deficit in Israel and Palestine:
Establishing Palestinian bantustans always the plan
Amira Hass in Haaretz: When Habayit Hayehudi party leader and rising political star Naftali Bennett calls for annexing Area C, the part of the West Bank under full Israeli security and civil control, he is following the logic of every single Israeli government: maximize the territory, minimize the Arabs. ”¦ Bennett can propose annexation because…