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| [Ex-Technion, now Goldsmiths, London] Eyal Weizman to deliver anti-Israel lectures in Sydney, Australia |
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Lectures titles:
The Endless Present: The Elastic Architecture of Occupation
Forensic Architecture: Only the Criminal can Solve the Crime
Future Archaeology: Decolonizing Architecture in the West Bank |
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| Anti-israel activism in Britain: Ilan Pappe, Haim Bresheeth, Moshe Machover àéìï ôôä - éåòõ îãòé ìîùøã äçéðåê |
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| Below, an article by Ben-Dror Yemini in Maariv which reveals that Ilan Pappe was an adviser to the Ministry of Education in 2005 and a few other items on Ilan Pappe, Haim Bresheeth and Moshe Machover's anti-Israel activism in the UK. |
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| Seminar & book launch: Ilan Pappe on Ronit Lentin's Co-Memory and Melancholia: Israelis Memorialising the Nakba |
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Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland: Wednesday, 17 November, 1900-2100 J. M. Singe Theatre, Arts Building
Public seminar and book launch: Prof Ilan Pappe, Exeter University Launch of Ronit Lentin, Co-Memory and Melancholia: Israelis Memorialising the Palestinian Nakba:
The 1948 war that led to the creation of the State of Israel also resulted in the destruction of Palestinian society when some 80 per cent of the Palestinians who lived in the major part of Palestine upon which Israel was established became refugees. Israelis call the 1948 war their ‘War of Independence’ and the Palestinians their ‘Nakba’, or catastrophe. After many years of Nakba denial, land appropriation, political discrimination against the Palestinians within Israel and the denial of rights to Palestinian refugees, in recent years the Nakba is beginning to penetrate Israeli public discourse. ..
Against a background of the Israeli resistance movement, Lentin’s central argument is that co-memorating the Nakba by Israeli Jews is motivated by an unresolved melancholia about the disappearance of Palestine and the dispossession of the Palestinians, a melancholia that shifts mourning from the lost object to the grieving subject. Lentin theorises Nakba co-memory as a politics of resistance, counterpoising co-memorative practices by internally displaced Israeli Palestinians with Israeli Jewish discourses of the Palestinian right of return, and questions whether return narratives by Israeli Jews, courageous as they may seem, are ultimately about Israeli Jewish self-healing rather than justice for Palestine. |
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| [Exeter University, U.K] Ilan Pappe interviewed in Iranian media: 'Israel needs war to exist' |
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A former Israeli lecturer has said the entity depends on wars for its existence, warning that the hostility only invites disaster for Tel Aviv. It is only constant confrontations and standoffs which keep the Israeli society from falling apart, said Ilan Pappe, who used to work as a senior lecturer at the University of Haifa in northern Israel.
He also said that the current Israeli government is the result of a colonialist movement. Colonialists, who did not have a country anywhere across the world, were obliged to remain here.
The Israeli regime, therefore, is constantly seeking to ignite new wars; against Lebanon and maybe soon against Iran, but future wars would not succeed and would instead lead the entity into disaster, he added, speaking to the German daily Junge Welt last month. |
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| Haim Bresheeth on Israeli Apartheid: The Israeli murder of international activists |
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| After the Israeli attack and the murder of international activits who attempt to break the blocade of Gaza, we went to interview professor Haim Bresheeth, an Israeli activist fighting for Palestinians' rights. Go check Haim's website: gaza.haimbresheeth.com/ |
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| [Ex-Sapir] Haim Bresheeth: The resolution of the conflict will only be reached by annulling Zionism and its racism, military and ‘civil’ racist machineries |
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The change will come from us, from the enraged and caring millions, angry with the duplicity of their own governments and their collusion with Israeli crimes; the international community is now realising it is up to all of us to do what many did during the apartheid days – to isolate and ostracise and isolate this pariah military and piratical regime, this State of Lunacy and lawlessness. We will all need to stop any relationship with this entity of crime: no products to be purchased, no touring in Israel, no conferences there, no invites and collaboration with Israeli academics and institutions who do not declare their unequivocal opposition to the occupation and its iniquities. The resolution of this conflict will only be reached by the annulling Zionism and its racism, its military and ‘civil’ racist machineries, the total removal of all settler communities, and the return of Palestinian refugees, as well as the payment of full compensation to all those who were hurt by the Zionist enterprise over the last few decades.
The way to achieve this is by the careful and thoughtful but total BDS – Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, that will lead to a Just peace and a stable and long-lasting political order in Palestine. Anything else will just lead to more murder, and to a likely destabilizing of the region, and towards exporting militant radicalism and possibly terrorism to all parts of the globe, as a result of an obvious failure of the west to deal with this colonial and imperialist abscess. |
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| [Queen’s University, Canada] Dorit Naaman, a filmmaker from Jerusalem, partcipates Israeli Apartheid Week |
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“The Politics of Local and International Solidarity in Palestine”
Gabriel Ash, Dr. Dorit Naaman, and Dr. Dana Olwan
7:00 pm, Kingston Hall room 201
Presented by Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights and Alternative Jewish Voices
Dorit Naaman is a professor in the Film Studies department at Queen’s. One of her main areas of research is Middle Eastern cinemas, and she examines it mostly from post-colonial and feminist perspectives. Dorit is interested in identity politics, and in the effects of global economy (co-productions, international film festivals) both on aesthetics, and on ideological formations. Dorit’s publications include “Unruly Daughters to Mother Nation: A Palestinian and an Israeli First person Films” in Hypatia Spring 2008, “Brides of Palestine/Angels of Death: Media, Gender and Performance in the case of the Palestinian Female Suicide Bomber” in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Summer 2007, and “The Silenced Outcry: A Feminist Point of View from the Israeli Checkpoints in Palestine.” National Women Studies Association Journal, Fall 2006.
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| [Exeter U] Latest Ilan Pappe: New book with anti-Israel academics / The One Democratic State Group / "Save" Lifta signed with [TAU] David Wesley |
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ACROSS THE WALL a book by Ilan Pappé and Jamil Hilal with Udi Adiv, Dan Rabinowitz, Moshe Zuckermann, Oren Yiftachel, Lev Grinberg & Uri Davis
Ex-U of Haifa, now Exeter U, UK] Ilan Pappe in "The One Democratic State Group" - Gaza is committed to the struggle for Palestinian rights
A DRIVE TO SAVE LIFTA petition signed by Ilan Pappe and Yonatan Mendel, Dr David A Wesley, Tzvia Shapira, Dr. Julia Chaitin, Noga Kadman:
This petition aims to save Lifta through the World Monuments Fund , amongst others, and to draw attention to this site which has been threatened by neglect, vandalism and forced occupation by extremist settlers. |
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| "RAUS MIT UNS" review of Ilan Pappe's "Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" |
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| Ilan Pappe is an Israeli academic who has made his name by hating Israel and everything it stands for. In his view, expressed with obsession and a degree of paranoia, Jewish nationalism, that is to say Zionism, has been from its outset a deliberate tool for dispossessing the Palestinians; and therefore it is to be condemned root and branch. He reserves the Palestinian term of Nakba, meaning catastrophe, for describing what to Israelis is their war of independence of 1948. To him, Israeli politicians and soldiers, one and all, are so many murderers. Forests have been planted only to cover up the past. Houses are ‘monstrous villas and palaces for rich American Jews’. Everything Israeli is ugly, everything Palestinian is beautiful. One day, he supposes, the Israelis may well consummate their original crime with something even worse. The only possible alternative lies in the immediate return of every Palestinian to his original home, and that will mean the end of the state whose existence so offends Pappe. This, of course, is exactly the inflexible position taken by Hamas and the PLO. |
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| Ronit Lentin's “Thinking Palestine” reviewed by anti-Israel Claudia Prestel |
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Ronit Lentin, a distinguished Israeli scholar and peace activist who lives in a chosen “exile” in Ireland, reflects on the reasons for the Israeli scholars’ preoccupation with researching Palestinians. She mentions the close cooperation between the security services and Israeli universities. It is in this context that the academic boycott of Israeli universities has to be seen as they are often part and parcel of the Israeli occupation. In the book Lentin therefore calls for a “theorization of ‘Palestinians’ not merely as victims, or as spoken for and about.” (p. 3) Apart from offering “theoretical approaches to thinking Palestine” the contributors are also politically committed to advocating a one-state solution (p. 14) which makes this book even more important in its originality for new ideas and solutions to the conflict.
Several scholars have tried to reflect on the nature of the Israeli state and challenge its definition of a “democracy”. |
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| Watch Ilan Pappe on Iranian TV |
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Hart of the Matter - Ilan Pappe by Alan Hart ,August 6, 2009
Professor Ilan Pappe is Israel’s leading “new” or “revisionist” historian. The terms new and revisionist really mean “honest”. The title of his latest book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, says everything about his integrity and commitment to the truth of history. As well as his passion for justice.
One of very many revelations in Ilan’s latest book is in the form of a statement made by David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s founding father, in a letter to his son. It was written in 1937. “The Arabs will have to go”, Ben-Gurion wrote, “but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as war.” |
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| Ilan Pappe silenced in Munich |
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Left-wing groups enraged by Germany municipality's decision not to allow anti-Zionist Israeli historian to speak at governmental institution. Pappe writes to Munich mayor his policy reminiscent of Nazi Germany
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| Ilan Pappe's latest activities- 9 years since October riots: Ilan Pappe speaks before thousands at Araba rally 9 ùðéí ìîäåîåú àå÷èåáø: àéìï ôôä ðàí |
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Tens of thousands of people took part in a rally held in the village of Araba marking the ninth anniversary of the October riots that took place in 2000 in the Arab sector.
Speaking before the rally were members of Knesset, public figures, and historian and political scientist Ilan Pappe, the first Jewish representative to ever speak at such a rally. |
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| [Al-Quds University, Israel Studies] Dr. Uri Davis, a Fatah member, is nominated for party's Revolutionary Council |
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A Jewish member of Fatah was nominated for a spot on the party's Revolutionary Council on Saturday, the Palestinian news agency Ma'an reported.
Dr. Uri Davis told Ma'an that one of Fatah's weakest attributes has been its failure to establish ties with international parties, movements and human rights organizations, and promised to step up efforts, if elected.
Born to Jewish parents in Jerusalem, Davis describes himself as a Palestinian Hebrew. |
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| Ilan Pappe on Sky News |
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April 23, 2009
Truth about Zionism (English). Zionism is racism. The courageous jewish historian "Ilan Pappe" about the ethnical cleansing in palestine. |
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| Reviews of Ilan Pappe |
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Ilan Pappe: 'My bias is apparent despite the desire of my peers that I stick to facts and the "truth" when reconstructing past realities. I view any such construction as vain and presumptuous. This book is written by one who admits compassion for the colonized not the colonizer; who sympathizes with the occupied not the occupiers.'
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| Ilan Pappe: "The necessity of cultural boycott" |
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| If there is anything new in the never-ending sad story of Palestine it is the clear shift in public opinion in the UK. I remember coming to these isles in 1980 when supporting the Palestinian cause was confined to the left and in it to a very particular section and ideological stream. The post-Holocaust trauma and guilt complex, military and economic interests and the charade of Israel as the only democracy in the Middle East all played a role in providing immunity for the State of Israel. Very few were moved, so it seems, by a state that had dispossessed half of Palestine's native population, demolished half of their villages and towns, discriminated against the minority among them who lived within its borders through an apartheid system and divided into enclaves two million and a half of them in a harsh and oppressive military occupation. |
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| [Ex-University of Haifa, now University of Exeter, U.K. History Department] Ilan Pappe's latest activities |
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The professor said the main reasons for the Gaza operation were twofold. One was to compensate for the “very poor performance” of the Israeli military in Lebanon and to show the Arab world that it could still react in a very powerful way. Another reason was the “genocidal” elimination of Hamas and Hizbullah. Unless Europe took a tougher stance, there would be worse to come. The Israelis had found a “formula”, containing the people of Gaza in a prison camp and those of the West Bank in an apartheid-style bantustan, he said.
“People can be eliminated from history, they can be eliminated from consciousness,” he continued. But this was not going to happen and, he warned, there could be world instability on a scale that was unimaginable at this time because of reaction from the Arab world. Author of a study, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Prof Pappé said that in 1948 the Israeli state expelled almost one million Palestinians “in what today we would call ethnic cleansing”. |
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| Articles by Hilla Dayan : "Europe and the Bitter Pill of the Israeli Occupation" and "The EU should not accept Israel's illegal occupation" |
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| There are a number of ways in which Europe can take a distinct stand upholding conditionality in such a manner, which will force Israel to choose between European integration and the occupation. Respect for International Law must be defended from the potentially irreparable damage of accommodating a military dictatorship. Israel should be pressed to stop dragging its feet and accept the EU requirement that a formal sub-committee on human rights is created in the ENP process. The EU should take measures to ensure that the Jewish settlement economy will not benefit from preferential trade status. In short, the EU should not embrace the occupation in contradiction with its core principles and interests, as well as with legal commitments under International and European Law. The EU must make "greater Israel" a no go for upgrading relations, instead of swallowing this bitter pill and paying the bill. |
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| [Virginia Polytechnic Institute] Daniel Breslau / An occupied house in an occupied land |
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| One needs to scour the alternative news sites and blogs to know about the crowds of Palestinians, Israelis, and internationals that meet in multiple sites across the West Bank every Friday to confront the occupation forces using only their bodies and words. And every week the marchers are met with violence in the form of tear gas, rubber-coated bullets, batons, and sometimes live fire. |
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| Ex Tel Aviv U] Nadim Rouhana: Arab Political Participation and the Future of Democracy in Israel: Increasing Political Efficacy and Influencing Democratic Change |
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| Palestinians within Israel comprise 17% of the population, and this percentage is increasing rapidly. With growing demographic weight and rising political awareness, their role in politics is becoming increasingly important, especially in terms of shaping Israeli democracy and identity, and influencing Israeli-Palestinian relations and regional political dynamics. Nevertheless, recent years have seen a decrease in Palestinian participation in Israeli democratic institutions, such as voting in parliamentary elections, and increasing tension between Israel's Arab and Jewish communities. This grant will allow MADA Al-Carmel (the Arab Center for Applied Social Research) to undertake a 36-month investigation of the reasons why Palestinians in Israel seem unable to wield effective political influence, particularly on issues that affect their communities. The research will involve a comparative analysis of Palestinian political participation in Israel and political participation of other national minority groups around the world. Based on its research findings, MADA will propose strategies for increasing Palestinian impact on democratic governance within Israel and on peaceful relations between Israelis and Palestinians. |
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| [History, Oxford University] Avi Shlaim: "Settlements turned Israel into apartheid state" |
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In his talk, entitled "Obsession with Territory Post-1967," Shlaim blasts the settlements, which he says have turned Israel into an apartheid state, as the primary source of failure for peace efforts with the Palestinians.
Shlaim believes Zionism was derailed from its course after the Six-Day war, when its universalist principles were replaced with "religious messianism and secular nationalism." Israel must give up land, he says, not just as a concession to the Palestinians, but because "a people that oppresses another cannot itself remain free." |
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| [New School, NY] Hilla Dayan, [ISHSS, The Netherlands] Barak Kalir and [Vrije U, Amsterdam] Erella Grassiani organize anti-Israel events |
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In November-December 2008 gate48 will organize four screenings and discussions in Gemak that will draw a tragic portrait of Israel as a state that prefers to live with walls surrounding and dividing it over getting to know its
neighbors and minority groups; a state that is so fearful of its past as a victim, that it prefers to become a victimizer. Israel has become a state that builds real barriers, which in fact stand only as symbols for the mental barriers it has created over time. The event in Gemak will feature four different instances
where such barriers are created; physical and symbolic. |
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| [Ex Ben Gurion U, History, UCLA] Talk at SOAS, Palestine Society: Gabriel Piterberg / The Returns of Zionism. Myths, Politics and Scholarship in Israel |
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| In this original and wide-ranging study, Gabriel Piterberg examines the ideology and literature behind the colonization of Palestine, from the late nineteenth century to the present. Exploring Zionism's origins in Central-Eastern European nationalism and settler movements, he shows how its texts can be placed within a wider discourse of western colonization. Piterberg revisits the work of Theodor Herzl, Gershom Scholem, Anita Shapira and David Ben-Gurion, among other thinkers influential in the formation of the Zionist myth, to break open prevailing views of Zionism. He demonstrates that it was in fact unexceptional, expressing a consciousness and imagination typical of colonial settler movement. Shaped by European ideological currents and the realities of colonial life, Zionism constructed its own story as a unique and impregnable one, in the process excluding the voices of an indigenous people - the Palestinian Arabs. |
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| Information concerning Dr. Nir Eisikovits |
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To my understanding the aim of Israeli Academia Monitor that I am proud to belong to, is to identify and bring to public attention to Israeli academics who systematically and maliciously harm Israel by presenting and framing information in a manner which is placing the country in a negative light.
Dr. Nir Eisikovits is certainly not the right target for such activity and should not be on the list of Anti Israeli academics. |
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| The Israeli Regime between the Sea and the River / by Ran Greenstein, U of Witwatersrand, South Africa |
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| While the current Israeli regime is a product of settlement processes which were historically part (at least in part) of European colonialism, and its practices are similar in many respects to other separation regimes such as apartheid SA, the use of labels such as colonialism, settler colonialism, apartheid and so on tells us nothing about the regime's specific nature, trajectory, direction in which it is going, and suitable strategies of resistance and change. For all those, we need to undertake a concrete analysis of the specific conditions under which it emerged, its mechanisms of domination, its ideological strategies, and the forces acting to entrench or challenge it. |
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| Anti-Israel Dr. Nir Eisikovits is on Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Academic Speakers Bureau, Boston |
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There are, of course, well-known problems with this democratic self-understanding. Our basic constitutional docume'nts speak of a "Jewish democratic state" while about 20 percent of our citizens are non-Jews. We have no separation of synagogue and state. We have, for over 40 years, maintained illegal settlements and a harsh military occupation in most of the Palestinian territories captured in 1967.
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| Nir Eisikovits: Israel's slipping democracy: This beacon of freedom is becoming more like its authoritarian neighbors |
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One does not need to be a constitutional scholar to worry about a democracy that eliminates access to its courts, curtails the right to be elected, and chooses to protect its police rather than detainees. Since all these measures were widely popular with Israelis, it is worthwhile reiterating an obvious point: Democracy is not only about the rule of the majority.
Rather, its essence lies in empowering the majority without allowing it to tyrannize the minority. Such a balancing act is possible only if a robust set of political rights is in place. A state that jettisons these in favor of national security will probably stay safe, but it will rarely stay democratic. |
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| Ilan Pappe's months of coming and going for the destruction of Israel |
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| "Israel uses oppression to defend it against democracy ..., leading to the maintenance of the state of oppression." Pappe sees Israel as characterized by "the hegemony of the security apparatuses" -- not just an army with a state, but a secret service with a state. In short, a mukhabarat state, and therefore more at home in the neighborhood of the Arab dictatorships |
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| Dr. Uri Davis, a Post-Zionist Jewish Academic Converts to Islam
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Dr. Uri Davis, who has often termed Israel an "apartheid state" and refused to serve in the IDF, converted to Islam about a week ago and married a Fatah activist in Ramallah. The conversion ceremony involved two oaths in which Davis recognized Allah and the Muslim prophet Mohammed. Davis said he plans to follow the laws of Islam, but not devoutly.
The conversion took place in a Moslem religious court in Baka el-Garbiye, an Israeli-Arab town just outside northwestern Samaria (Shomron).
Davis's lawyer explained that the Arabs of the Palestinian Authority know him for his great sacrifices on behalf of the "Palestinian problem" and the "realization of their rights." He noted that the consent of the Arab woman and her family to the marriage to a Jewish activist is an "admirable social development."
Just two months ago, David took part in an Arab-sponsored "Haifa Conference," billed as "defend[ing] a secular democratic state in historic Palestine." A summary of the conference written by Yoav Bar states that the Conference "was our moment to raise our heads from the exhausting daily struggle and promise ourselves and the world that the suffering of the Palestinian people may be brought to an end and there can be a bright future for everybody in Palestine after we get rid of the racist Zionist disorder." |
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| Dr. Oren Ben-Dor, Professor Ilan Pappe and Professor Smadar Lavie advance "A one-state solution" |
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The obstacles to a single state founded on justice for all its citizens are formidable. In particular, the Zionist project will have to be stopped. At first sight, the idea of a single state in Israel-Palestine is barely intelligible; the region is permeated by bitterness and hate, everyday life there involves pervasive fear and violence, and there is calculated interference by foreign lobbies and other states. Even the most conciliatory positions seem to offer some form of two-state solution.
Nevertheless, many are now advocating a single-state solution. Four of the most authoritative proponents of the idea gathered recently for a public debate, the first in a planned series on Israel-Palestine, hosted by two voluntary campus groups at the University of Southampton, namely Amnesty International and the One State Group. With Dr. Oren Ben-Dor in the chair, Professor Ilan Pappe, who has been called Israel’s bravest historian and is the author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, explored the issues in the company of Dr. Ghada Karmi, who — like Prof. Pappe — is at the University of Exeter, Professor Smadar Lavie of Macalester College, Minnesota, |
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| Daniel Breslau [Virginia Tech and ex-Tel Aviv U]: "The wall is an organized crime" |
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Israel's High Court of Justice has adopted the logic of colonialist courts, justifying innumerable harships imposed on the Palestinian residents for the sake of the purported security of the illegal settlers. In general, the court's definition of the settlers' security needs is taken directly from pro-settlement officials in the Defense Ministry. Occasionally, this apartheid court has been moved by evidence that the planned, or already constructed, path of the wall cannot be justified for security purposes, and unnecessarily harms the population living under occupation. The path of the wall has been adjusted, bringing slight reductions in the harm to property, livelihoods, and freedoms of the Palestinians.
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| Yehuda Elkana, Central European University President and Rector, and co-founder of The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University (emeritus), advisor to a Palestinian organization which works against Israel.
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The Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace-International (FFIPP-I) is an International network of faculty, with an affiliated international
student network, whose objectives are an end to the occupation |
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| Sixty and Beyond / by Dr. Alon Ben-Meir, New York University |
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Israel should make the strategic decision to withdraw from the territories while it enjoys a position of strength. The Arab Initiative offers a comprehensive peace with all Arab states in exchange for the territories captured in 1967. Peace is the single most important measure that will provide Israel with the ultimate security it seeks, for peace will particularly undermine Iran's regional ambitions and neutralize its threat to Israel's security. By working with the Initiative, Israel can establish and pursue a secure border, retain its Jewish national identity, normalize
relations with the Arab world, and find a mutually acceptable solution to the future of Jerusalem. As a sign of its commitment to end the occupation, Israel should start to evacuate two or three of the numerous West Bank settlements from which it must withdraw in any peace agreement. |
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| Dr. Dalit Baum, Math, is head of project "Who Profits of the Occupation" |
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The Occupation Industry Research Project
Along with various political, religious and national interests, the Israeli Occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights is fueled more and more by corporate interests. Civilian companies and international corporations are involved in real estate deals, the development of Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories, the construction and operation of an ethnic separation system made of checkpoints, walls and roads, and the development and supply of equipment used in the control and repression of civilian population.
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| Report of Amnesty Southampton and Southampton
One State Group Panel Discussion on
Justice and Peace: One State for Israel/Palestine |
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Speakers:
In Order of Appearance
Oren Ben-Dor, Southampton One State Group
Prof Ilan Pappe
Dr Ghada Karmi
Prof Smadar Lavie
Dr Nur Masalha |
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| Calling for Boycott - Dror Warschawski, The "Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique", Paris, France |
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However, the history of Judaism, which has
very beautiful pages exceeds by far that of the State of Israel, which only includes pages stained with blood. It is because we are afraid that you confondiez the two that we ask you to reconsider your participation in the next International Festival of Writers of Jerusalem in the monthof May. The boycott organized against this type of event is not aboycott of theculture nor the Israeli writers and even fewer Jews. It is an institutional boycott not to legitimize the State of Israel and its propaganda as he celebrated with joy 60 years of illegal
occupation of land, which also correspond to 60 years of dispossession of the people Palestinian and living in exile under military occupation or assecond-class citizens inIsrael, discrimination, hampered in their movements and so on… |
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| [U of Exeter, U.K] The Bureaucracy of Evil: The History of the Israeli Occupation / Ilan Pappe 2009
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| Following his critically acclaimed investigation of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in the 1940’s, renowned Israeli historian Ilan Pappe turns his attention to the annexation and occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, to bring us the first comprehensive critique of the Occupied Territories. Based on groundbreaking archival research, NGO records and eyewitness accounts, Pappe’s investigation of the ‘bureaucracy of evil’ explores the brutalizing effects of occupation, from the systematic abuse of human and civic rights, the IDF roadblocks, mass arrests, and house searches, to the forced population transfer, the settlers, and the infamous wall that is rapidly turning the West Bank into an open prison. Providing a sharp contrast with life in Israel, this is a brilliantly incisive and moving portrait of daily life in the Occupied Territories. |
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| Israeli academics amongst other Jews: "We Jews Will Not Be Celebrating". (This organization is run also by Palestinians)
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We Will Not Be Celebrating
In May, Jewish organizations will be celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel. This is understandable in the context of centuries of persecution culminating in the Holocaust. Nevertheless, we are Jews who will not be celebrating. Surely it is now time to acknowledge the narrative of the other, the price paid by another people for European anti-Semitism and Hitler's genocidal policies. As Edward Said emphasized, what the Holocaust is to the Jews, the Nakba is to the Palestinians.
In April 1948, the same month as the infamous massacre at Deir Yassin and the mortar attack on Palestinian civilians in Haifa's market square, Plan Dalet was put into operation. This authorized the destruction of
Palestinian villages and the expulsion of the indigenous population outside the borders of the state. We will not be celebrating. |
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| Ilan Pappe in a Palestinian conference: "Zionist Apartheid and the One Country solution.” Friday May 2nd, Canada |
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Prof. Ilan Pappe was born in Haifa to German-Jewish parents who had fled Nazi persecution in the 1930s. He graduated from the Hebrew University in 1978, and obtained his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford in 1984. He was the Academic Director of the Research Institute for Peace at Givat Haviva from 1993 to 2000, and is currently teaching at the University of Exeter in Britain. His early books dealt with Israeli policy in 1948, a subject he has returned to in his latest book, "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine".
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| Ilan Pappe Speaks In Bristol |
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Ilan Pappe was one of the keynote speakers at the Bristol Nakba Conference last Saturday (26th April). The conference, organised by Bristol PSC, attracted a respectable-sized audience to the Malcolm X Centre, and featured a range of speakers and several useful workshops.
But for me it was Ilan’s speech which was the highlight of the day. An Israeli Jew and anti-Zionist activist, he has recently taken up a history post at the University of Exeter, and has published a new book, ‘The Ethnic Cleansing Of Palestine’ |
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| The neo-Nazi newpaper National Zeitung published recently an interview with Ilan Pappe : |
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| The major casualty of Jewish Communities by Zionism is today in the abuse of the rich Jewish heritage of humanity and world citizenship. Rather than allow Jews to the efforts against the oppression and injustice in the world should be mentioned, as they themselves had experienced in the Holocaust, the Jewish state has become a repressive government that deals with other global alliance oppressors. It must be noted, however, that the Zionism before the Second World War has saved many Jews who otherwise under the Nazi regime had been destroyed, including my own family. |
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| Alon Confino, professor of modern German and European history, University of Virginia, believes in the right of Palestinians to return to villages in Israel |
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| Instead of arguing about history, he suggests therefore that we concentrate on creating political, civic and cultural equality between the Jews and the Arabs in Israel, including the payment of compensation to the Arabs for property that was confiscated from them, and a recognition of their right to return to the villages they were forced to leave, "insofar as possible." In his opinion, more equality will reduce the tension between Jews and Arabs, will improve the integration of the Arabs into Israeli society, and then it will also be easier to work on shaping memory, in order to harness it for everyone's benefit. |
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| Palestine House, the Canadian Arab Federation and the Canadian Islamic announce essay contest based on Ilan Pappe's book
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Palestine House, the Canadian Arab Federation and the Canadian Islamic Congress jointly announced today an open invitation to all Canadian high school and university students (ages 17 through 27) to take part in an essay contest on the theme; "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine."
This contest is being held in response to the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the state of Israel within Palestine.
Five awards will be given. The first-place prize is $1,000; the second prize $750 and the third to the fifth are $500 each.
In addition, all winners will receive a complimentary copy of the book, "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" by Israeli historian, Prof. Ilan Pappe. |
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| [Ex Ben Gurion U, now UCLA professor] Gabriel Piterberg's new book about the formation of the Zionist Myth
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Available June 2008
The Returns of Zionism: Myths, Politics and Scholarship in Israel by Gabriel Piterberg: Leading Israeli scholar with a major re-evaluation of Zionist ideology and literature. |
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| About Ilan Pappe, taken from Iranian News: Israeli urges cultural boycott of regime |
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An Israeli historian beleives that cultural boycott of the Zionist regime is the only way for force the regime to end the occupation, the Zionist Yediot Aharonot daily reported on its website.
Ian Pape also clearly announced its support for the academic boycott of the Zionist regime last year. After that he and his family were threatened to death and had to leave their home.
He left Israel and now live in England but after his recent remarks about Israel he had been threatened to death by phone every day. |
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| Ilan Pappe: I'm not a traitor
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Q. An article you wrote titled "Genocide in Gaza, ethnic cleansing in the West Bank" was published in the Tehran Times about a month ago. Are you providing the enemy with weapons against us?
"A. On the contrary, I wish to speak to the people in Iran. A Jordanian newspaper wrote in its editorial a year ago that absurdly, I am Israel's best ambassador in the Arab world, because they say – if such Israelis exist, maybe there's hope for peace with the Jewish state." |
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| The mega prison of Palestine / Ilan Pappe |
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| As always it is important to be reminded that the west can put an end to this unprecedented inhumanity and criminality, tomorrow. But so far this is not happening. Although the efforts to make Israel a pariah state continue with full force, they are still limited to civil society. Hopefully, this energy will one day be translated into governmental policies on the ground. We can only pray it will not be too late for the victims of this horrific Zionist invention: the mega prison of Palestine. |
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| Ilan Pappe goes fund raising for Palestinian organization in Canada |
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From march 25th to 30th, the Near East Cultural and Educational
Foundation (NECEF) and Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) will be touring Professor Ilan Pappe in commemoration of the 60th year of the Palestinian Nakbah (Catastrophe) . Prof. Pappe was born in Haifa to German-Jewish parents who had fled Nazi persecution in the 1930s.[1] He graduated from the Hebrew University in 1978, and obtained his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford in 1984. He was the Academic Director of the Research Institute for Peace at Givat Haviva from 1993 to 2000, and is currently teaching at the University of Exeter in Britain. |
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| Idith Zertal to speak about her book "Lords of the Land, the first book to narrate and analyze the full history of the occupation and Jewish settlements" |
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MEI Event- Thursday, February 14: "Lords of the Lands"
"Lords of the Lands"
With, Idith Zertal, Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland
Professor Zertal is an Israeli historian and essayist, the author of many books and articles on Jewish, Zionist and Israeli history. |
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| About Rann Bar-On from Duke University |
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| In the aftermath of the 2004 PSM meeting, conference organizer Rann Bar-On -- who is an ISM member -- informed the Duke student newspaper, "I personally consider the Palestine Solidarity Movement conference a huge success, as it brought about a tripling of the number of Duke students visiting Israel-Palestine this year, making Duke the most represented American university in the West Bank this summer." By Bar-On's own admission, recruitment into the ISM is the PSM's raison d'etre. |
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| About Ilan Pappe's book in: 'Origins of a crime' |
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AS Israel born in sin?” Dan Perry of the Associated Press asked Ilan Pappe, who taught political science at Haifa University. The answer was brutally honest and explicit without any equivocation whatever: “Yes. The Jews came and took, by means of uprooting and expulsion, a land that was Arab. We wanted to be a colonialist occupier, and yet to come across as moral at the same time”; pose as victims to cover up brazen aggression (AP report datelined Tel Avi v, December 24, 1985). The Jewish militia Hagana soon outnumbered the Arabs. King Abdullah of Transjordan had a secret pact with Israel that his Arab Legion, the only strong Arab army, would not go beyond the West Bank.
Ilan Pappe, who now holds the Chair in History at the University of Exeter, elaborated on the theme in Foreign Policy of March-April 2005, citing, irrefutably, facts that deserve to be quoted in extenso: “One has to distinguish between what would have happened had Israel not existed and the query of the state’s legitimacy in the light of its problematic past. The first question should be viewed principally from the perspective of Israel’s victims, the Palestinians. |
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| Ilan Pappe's article 'Genoside in Gaza, Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank' appears on Teheran Times |
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| Not long ago, I claimed that Israel is employing genocidal policies in the Gaza Strip. I hesitated before using this very charged term and yet decided to adopt it. The responses I received indicated unease in using such a term. I rethought the term for a while, but concluded with even stronger conviction: it is the only appropriate way to describe what the Israeli army is doing in the Gaza Strip. |
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| The Israeli Recipe For 2008: Genocide in Gaza, Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank / By Ilan Pappe |
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| Not long ago, I claimed that Israel is employing genocidal policies in the Gaza Strip. I hesitated before using this very charged term and yet decided to adopt it. The responses I received indicated unease in using such a term. I rethought the term for a while, but concluded with even stronger conviction: it is the only appropriate way to describe what the Israeli army is doing in the Gaza Strip. |
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| Oren Ben-Dor amongst signatories attacking the Israel Loby |
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The Israel lobby and associated Friends of Israel groups, in supporting a racist regime with racist policies in contravention of international law and human rights, are a disgrace to Parliament and an insult to the people whose Parliamentary democracy this is...It is about the activities of the Israel lobby – groups of political activists and MPs who are, for the most part, non-Jews. It is disturbing to see their support of a racist, foreign government, which is also in defiance of numerous United Nations resolutions, so high on their agenda within the sovereign government they represent. The Committee’s job is to "make recommendations as to any changes in present arrangements which might be required to ensure the highest standards of propriety in public life." Accordingly we insist, please, that our case is put before the Committee for proper consideration. For truth and justice,
Signatories
Oren Ben-Dor, Lecturer in law, School of Law, Southampton University |
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| Ilan Pappe writes Avraham Oz |
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Thank God, one of the first things you learn in Europe
is that the Zionist narrative has been defeated in the more
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| Oren Ben-Dor [U of Southampton, UK]: "Why Israel has no 'Right to Exist' as a Jewish State" |
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We must see that the uncritically accepted recognition of Israel right to exist is, as Joseph Massad so well puts it in Al-Ahram, to accept Israel claim to have the right to be racist or, to develop Massad's brilliant formulation, Israel's claim to have the right to occupy to dispossess and to discriminate. What is it, I wonder, that prevent Israelis and so many of world Jews to respond to the egalitarian challenge? What is it, I wonder, that oppresses the whole world to sing the song of a "peace process" that is destined to legitimise racism in Palestine?
To claim such a right to be racist must come from a being whose victim's face must hide very dark primordial aggression and hatred of all others. How can we find a connective tissue to that mentality that claims the legitimate right to harm other human beings? How can this aggression that is embedded in victim mentality be perturbed?
The Annapolis meeting is a con. As an egalitarian argument we should say loud and clear that Israel has no right to exist as a Jewish state. |
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| Ilan Pappe interviewed in Italy
ETHNIC CLEANSING GOES ON AND ISRAEL WANTS YOU TO ACCEPT IT
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| During the Holocaust, the countries that are today criticizing Israel, either were accomplices or they kept silent. These are the reasons why the international community has renounced its right to judge us. It bears guilt which it can no longer find a remedy for. Thus losing, still today, the right to criticize Israel’s government. The consequence is that when the state of Israel was established, nobody blamed it for the ethnic cleansing which it had been founded on, a crime against humanity carried out by those who planned and fulfilled it. From that time on, ethnic cleansing has become an ideology, an infrastructural decoration of the state. A matter that is still topical, since Israel’s primary target is demographic: to seize as much territory as possible with the least number of Arabs living in it as possible.” |
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| Israeli Academics Call Openly for Israel's Annihilation: The One State Declaration |
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- The historic land of Palestine belongs to all who live in it and to those who were expelled or exiled from it since 1948, regardless of religion, ethnicity, national origin or current citizenship status;
- Any system of government must be founded on the principle of equality in civil, political, social and cultural rights for all citizens. Power must be exercised with rigorous impartiality on behalf of all people in the diversity of their identities;
- There must be just redress for the devastating effects of decades of Zionist colonization in the pre- and post-state period, including the abrogation of all laws, and ending all policies, practices and systems of military and civil control that oppress and discriminate on the basis of ethnicity, religion or national origin;
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Signed:
Omar Barghouti (PhD candidate TAU)
Oren Ben-Dor (U of Southampton)
Haim Bresheeth (EX Sapir College, University of East London )
Ghazi Falah (Ex TAU)
Ilan Pappe (Ex U of Haifa, U of Exeter)
Nadim Rouhana (Ex TAU) |
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| Oren Ben-Dor discusses "Why Israel has no 'Right to Exist' as a Jewish State" |
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Israel's claim to have the right to occupy to dispossess and to discriminate. What is it, I wonder, that prevent Israelis and so many of world Jews to respond to the egalitarian challenge? What is it, I wonder, that oppresses the whole world to sing the song of a "peace process" that is destined to legitimise racism in Palestine?
To claim such a right to be racist must come from a being whose victim's face must hide very dark primordial aggression and hatred of all others.How can we find a connective tissue to that mentality that claims the legitimate right to harm other human beings? How can this aggression that is embedded in victim mentality be perturbed?
The Annapolis meeting is a con. As an egalitarian argument we should say loud and clear that Israel has no right to exist as a Jewish state. |
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| Ghazi-Walid Falah, ex-Tel Aviv university geographer was arrested for spying |
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That night agents of the Israel Security Agency, also known as the Shin Bet, or Shabak, arrested Mr. Falah and took him to a police station in Nahariya. There they told him they had found something in his camera: a photograph of a "sensitive" military antenna near the coast.
Then they used the word meragel: Spy.
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Mr. Falah's appointment at Tel Aviv University lasted only a year. He never found another one on an Israeli campus. So, in 1987, with help from the Ford Foundation, he founded the Galilee Center for Social Research, in Nazareth. There he began publishing scholarship on what he called Israel's "Judaization" policy in the Galilee region — the state's attempt, in his view, to tightly constrict Arab citizens' control of land there.
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| Avi Shlaim (Oxford) does not think anyone should be allowed to criticize anti-Israel academics in: "Debate rages across US on academic freedom" |
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| Avi Shlaim, professor of International Relations at St Antony’s College, Oxford, told the JC that he believed that Mr Dershowitz was one of the “many prominent American Jews [who] defend Israel [with] an atavistic attitude of ‘my country, right or wrong’.” |
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| Ilan Pappe (Haifa, Exeter) recruited to help PFLP terrorists in their trial in Denmark |
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“If the Copenhagen City Court determines that the PFLP is a liberationist organization it could have a positive impact for a peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestine conflict and worldwide,” summarized Israeli
historian Ilan Pape, a defense witness for seven “Fighter and Lovers” solidarity activists charged with abetting terrorism by selling t-shirts with PFLP and FARC insignias. The police confiscated proceeds, which would have gone to media projects for these groups.
Pape gave testimony during the resumed trial sessions, November 14-16, in Copenhagen. The professor of the Arab-Israeli conflict for 25 years recently moved from his teaching job at Hafa University to head the history department at England’s Exeter University. Son of immigrant German Jews, Pape has lived his entire life in Hafa.
Pape outlined the history since the state of Israeli was established in 1948. He said that Israel has systematically ignored and violated the UN Charter, the Geneva Convention, and hundreds of UN resolutions ever since. This gives the Palestinian people legal right to defend themselves and fight for their sovereignty. |
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| Avi Shlaim (Oxford) defends Oxford Union "debate" in which no pro-Israel opinion was permitted |
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| Israel is often portrayed by its supporters as an island of democracy in a sea of authoritarianism. But these very same supporters, in their excessive zeal for their cause, sometimes end up by violating one of the most fundamental principles of democracy – the right to free speech. While accepting free speech as a universal value, all too often they try to restrict it when it comes to Israel and its treatment of the Palestinians. |
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| Washington State’s Assaf Oron makes denigrating the IDF his passion |
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| One has to wonder at Assaf Oron’s lack of concern for the community he came from. It’s OK to mention Intel’s presence there as a reference to advance his background and career, but he doesn’t mind attacking the IDF that protects that community from Arabs who would gladly fire missiles into it from Gaza. While he served in the Givati Brigade, he seems to have never served in serious combat and sought to avoid service at checkpoints where he was at risk of being killed by bombs or terrorists to protect others, yet likens himself to the young Chinese man who faced down a tank at Tiananmen Square (who was executed as a result). Such comparisons with Israel’s democracy and the Chinese dictatorship while Assaf Oron defends the totalitarians in the Palestinian Authority are extremely self-serving and scholastically bankrupt |
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| ASSAF ORON (University of Washington) - thinks the Israel Defense Forces is a "disease" -
Terrorism the cure? |
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| No, refusal and evasion are not the same thing; but they are two sides of the same coin, two symptoms of the same disease. And the disease is called The IDF: a Military that owns a State. Two states, actually: Israel and the Occupied Territories. The IDF experience described here is not necessarily worse than in other armies. What sets the IDF apart is that it has two nations - Israelis and Palestinians - stuck inside its little pocket. A military is like a watchdog, for good or bad. What were are witnessing in and around Israel in the last generation or two, is what happens when you let the watchdog run the house. |
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| Eyal Weizman, Goldsmith College, U.K, bashes Israel |
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| Totalitarianism and anti-Semitism at Oxford University, recruiting Israeli academics as defamers |
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This month the same Oxford Student Union that, in 1933, famously passed a motion declaring ‘”this House will under no circumstances fight for its King and Country,” is being true to the legacy of its forebears. As British blog Harry’s Place reports, on October 23 the Union, in its annual Middle East debate, will put forth the following motion: “This House Believes that One State is the Only Solution to the Israel Palestine Conflict.”
There are no surprises in the Union’s choice of the three speakers seconding the motion. Avi Shlaim, Ilan Pappe, and Ghada Karmi have for many years been anti-Israel agitators whose writings had only a shallow pretense of academic impartiality. If debate is meant to be shrill rather than thoughtful, venomous rather than witty, the Union chose the perfect line-up |
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| Simona Sharoni (Evergreen State College), the 'Israeli Professor sees only one side of an issue, especially if it’s against Israel' |
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| Professor Sharoni uses extensively the buzz words and sound bites of the Palestinian revolution frequently hurled about by the International Solidarity Movement, the Commuist/Anarchist front for the PLO: Israel’s Security Fence is an “apartheid wall “ set up to promote racism against Arabs, not to stop terrorists; “humiliation” is also a big favorite word of hers when referring to the checkpoints set up to stop suicide bombers who kill Arabs and Jews alike. Professor Sharoni states with all the authority of a college professor who really doesn’t know what she’s talking about that the IDF sets up checkpoints “arbitrarily” in the West Bank simply to inconvenience the Arab population, not to preempt terrorism. |
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| Noga Kadman, Department of Peace and Development Research at Goteborg University, Sweden, Promotes the "Naqba Narrative" |
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Noga Kadman, an activist and geographer with expertise on the 1948 Palestinian villages, has initiated a project in which she will produce with Zochrot a book on the erased Palestinian localities that have been turned into
recreational areas. The book will be completed in 2007 and will include a 11 Nakba map in Hebrew. |
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| Sigal Ben-Porath, University of Pennsylvania, wants schools to serve as indoctrination camps |
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In Ben-Porath’s view education is always political. “The main job of the public education system is political in the broadest sense of the word,” she says, her hands slicing the air for emphasis. “We do necessarily political work, and if we don’t do it reflectively and intentionally, we don’t do it right.”
Promoting education as an agent for political change has been the thrust of Sigal Ben-Porath’s career. As a young social philosopher and educator in Israel, she participated in an interdisciplinary study group funded by the Ford Foundation. |
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| Zalman Amit, Emeritus Professor of psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, smears Oded Tira because Tira opposes lawbreaking and sedition |
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Below is a quick translation of Tira's article. Its is pure slime, ignorance and the height of McCarthyism.
This character obviously thinks that (Ba'al Ha'meah hu ba'al ha'deah) "he who pays the piper calls the tune". It is also obvious that this scion of industrialism has no clue what a university is despite the fact that he identifies himself as a Technion graduate.
So much for the anguished cry for defense of freedom of speech. That is good for others but not for those protecting Israel's security
Zalman Amit |
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| Eyal Weizman (University of London and Technion, architecture) celebrated by communist web site |
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| Weizman is the Director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College of the University of London, so he knows about architecture. His work with various NGOs and human rights groups in Palestine has given him the opportunity to observe Israel's ongoing campaign to disconnect (if not eradicate) the Palestinians from their land. As his book makes clear, this campaign is not accidental, nor is it something that only began because of the armed struggle waged by Palestinians against Tel Aviv's occupation. It is, in fact and deed, part and parcel of the Israeli project from its inception. Furthermore, this campaign has been waged in the military and architectural sphere in collusion with Israel's imperial cohorts--primarily the United States and Britain |
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| The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine lecture by Dr. Ilan Pappe - |
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| The fact that Israel was let off easily in 1948, and not condemned for the ethnic cleansing it committed, encouraged it to ethnically cleanse a further 300,000 Palestinians from the West Bank and the Gaza strip |
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| Israel's Network of Expatriate Treachery - the Israel-hating Israeli Academics outside Zion |
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It seems that Israel-bashers and anti-Semites of the Left and of the Right never tire of the delight in discovering and recruiting yet another Jew willing to serve as spokesperson for their political agendas. They are invariably convinced that if they can point to any Jew who mouths their mantras about Israeli "apartheid" and Zionist "racism", never mind that Israel is the only Middle East country that is NOT an apartheid regime, then surely what they are saying MUST be true. And if those Jews also happen to be ex-Israelis, people who grew up in Israel and claim to know all about it, what chance can there be for anyone to debunk the lies and hate being marketed?
In recent years the world has seen the growth of networks of ex-Israeli Jewish far-leftists, disgruntled people living outside of Israel and devoting their energies to delegitimizing and undermining the very existence of the Jewish state. |
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| Yigal Bronner, South Asian Literature, University of Chicago, invents some New History |
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| Currently, Israel is dramatically and unilaterally changing the regional landscape. The project misleadingly called the "Security Fence" is perpetuating and vastly expanding the colonies Israel has established in the areas it occupied in 1967, while sacrificing a handful of settlements located in the remote and most populated Palestinian areas. The project also complements the system of Jewish-only roads and numerous checkpoints that already fragment the West Bank -- it concentrates the Palestinians in densely inhabited, impoverished enclaves, and ensures complete Israeli control over the region's most precious resources: open land and water...Note that what is happening in the territories occupied in 1967 is not essentially new. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not 40 years old but 120 years old. Throughout this period, the Israeli Yeshuv-turned-state used a variety of means to seize as much land as possible and displace or strangle the native population... |
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| Uri Gordon, University of Oxford (environmental studies), wants an "anarchist" environment with no Israel in it |
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The point of all this is not only to dismantle barriers but to get the army out of Palestine, dismantling the entire regime of occupation with its apparatus of death, imprisonment and confiscation. We are not interested in better managing of the conflict - we want to end it by reconciliation among enemies.
...Many anarchists, by the way, opposed the disengagement - as they would any armed unilateralism toward citizens or non-citizens under military occupation.
The truth is that Israeli anarchists are demonized because their actions are coherent and bold. The joint Palestinian-Israeli struggle transgresses the fundamental taboos put in place by Zionist militarism. Alongside the living example of nonviolence and cooperation between the two peoples, the struggle forces Israeli spectators to confront their dark collective traumas.
Israelis who demonstrate hand-in-hand with Palestinians are threatening because they are afraid neither of Arabs nor of the Second Holocaust that they are supposedly destined to perpetrate.Notice how everything comes out when the anarchists are vilified: the fear of annihilation, the enemy as a calculated murderer, and victims' guilt expatiated through the assertion of self-defense and just war as unexamined axioms.
And this is threatening on a deeper level than any hole in the fence - but, then again, anarchists didn't get their reputation as trouble-makers for nothing. |
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| Oren Ben-Dor (law University of Southampton, UK) thinks that "Israeli Apartheid is the Core of the Crisis" in anti-Semitic Counterpunch web site |
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The economic and diplomatic boycott imposed on the elected Hamas government, which has resulted in the recent violence in Gaza, was intended to force it to accept Israeli apartheid. Only when the world is ready to call by its true name the premise upon which Israeli statehood is based, will it not take violence to advance a morally coherent and credible criticism of Israel.
The denial of this core apartheid, of which the Gaza violence is a symptom, must stop. We should say it loud and clear. The apartheid system which lies at the core of Israeli statehood should be dismantled. It is unethical to rationalize the apartheid notion of a Jewish state. It is not consistent to be a friend of Israel, thereby endorsing its apartheid-based statehood, while criticising its apartheid practices in the Occupied Territories. Apartheid should have no sanctuary in any future vision for historic Palestine.
Only when this realization sinks in will it be possible to create a stable political solution, one in which redress can be made for past injustices and equal citizenship provided for all, Arabs and Jews. |
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| Dr. Dalit Baum, at the 'Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice,' University of San Diego, denounces Israel from occupied California |
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DR. DALIT BAUM, A TEL AVIV RESIDENT, SAYING:
"Well we have organised here a very very wide coalition of organizations from all different spectrums of Israeli political left, and we are going to march in Tel Aviv in order to remind people that this is forty years to the 67' war and the occupation of the territories in the West Bank and Gaza and the Golan Heights, and we are thinking that we need to walk around town -- this very quiet, very very content city -- and remind people
that the occupation goes on and it needs to stop."
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| Hilla Dayan (New School, NY) thinks Israel is an Outlaw Regime |
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| Hilla Dayan is completing her Ph.D dissertation in political sociology at the New School for Social Research in New York |
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| Dorit Naaman teaches that Israel is a 'Monster' (her word) at Queen's University in Kingston |
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| This is not to say that there isn't non-violent resistance worth enacting. I am in awe at what Tali Fahima has done, what many organizations (like Zochrot, Machsom Watch, Anarchists Against the Wall, and many others) do relentlessly, even when they see no hope for change. I've seen some excellent and brave documentaries by Israeli filmmakers who dare to look straight into the monster's face. I just don't know that these will ever be more than marginal sites of sanity and morality. I can no longer see how the militaristic society of Israel will change, and I no longer know what it'll take to make this society less militaristic and more humane. |
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| Uri Horesh promotes the campaign for U of Pennsylvania divestment from Israel |
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Welcome to the campaign for University of Pennsylvania divestment from arms corporations that conduct business with Israel or any other human rights violator.
(12.4.2002)
the petition, with an opening statement calling on the University to re-establish the Committee on University Responsibility, and backed by hundreds of pages of documentation of human rights abuses in the West Bank and Gaza, has now been presented to President Rodin at the University Council Open Forum. |
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| Haim Bresheeth (UK), calls in Al-Ahram for more boycotts of Israel |
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| With Jewish intellectuals attacked as anti-Semitic by supporters of Israel, Israeli filmmaker and academic Haim Bresheeth* makes the case for a cultural boycott of his home country |
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| Yigal Arens (USC, Los Angeles) has found a way to make his Daddy really angry - calling for boycotts of Israel |
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| A boycott targetting institutions on the other hand, as the AUT conference originally attempted, is a legitimate idea, particularly if the institutions are shown to have government links or be involved in oppressive policies. |
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| Yigal Arens thinks leftists are being denied freedom of expression in Israel. We wonder what planet he is on. |
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Maybe it is because the campus Left has still not succeeded in suppressing freedom of expression for non-leftists altogether?
Yigal Arens is a son of Moshe Arens. He refused to serve in the Israeli army about 30 years ago and left the country for the United States (where he now works at the Information Sciences Institute in the University of Southern California). In fact, Yigal Arens was listed as a speaker at the Palestinian Right of Return Conference that was held in Long Beach, California, on October 5-7, 2001 |
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| Smadar Lavie, radical feminist from Beit Berl College, and her sour grapes.
She denounces "Academic Apartheid in Israel" (maybe because she could not get a university appointment?) |
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| 'All Israeli universities are public. One ought to assume that a public institution reflects the citizenry who finances it with its tax money. Half of Israeli citizens are women. If one is to add up the Mizrahim (Jews of Asian and North-African origins) with the Palestinian-Israelis, the majority of Israeli citizens these days is of Arab origins. Brandishing the widest relative income gap between rich and poor worldwide, most of these tax-payers dwell around what the collapsing Israeli welfare system define as “the poverty line.” Nevertheless, the rank and file of both full and associate professors in Israel consists almost fully of upper middle-class Ashkenazi men. The common argument deployed to explain this chummy, country-club exclusivity is that Mizrahim and Palestinians just can’t climb up to the high standards of the Israeli academic threshold.' |
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| Moshe Machover, England |
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| it is a conflict between the Zionist project to colonize Palestine and the people of this country, the Palestinian Arabs. |
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| Assaf Oron (University of Washington) thinks anti-Israel leftists are being denied freedom of expression because others dare to disagree with them! |
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Israeli dissenters have been increasingly angry with the American Jewish leadership. Mainstream Jewish organizations ensure blanket U.S. support for Israeli government policies, creating a culture of impunity that repeatedly has gotten that country into trouble.
For me, the last straw was an invitation from all major Jewish organizations -- headed by Seattle's Jewish Federation -- to join a "support Israel" rally, just as the Israel Defense Forces were pounding Lebanon and killing mostly civilians in the process.
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| Zalman Amit (Concordia University, Canada) thinks the "Jewish Lobby" in Canada (there is one?) is guilty of "War Crimes"
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There is no question that the item that dominated the news programs of the Canadian national networks in the past few days was: Did Israel commit war crimes, and if so, what is the price of admitting it?'...
This mini-shock may be the reason for the utterly stupid statement made by Ignatieff immediately following the killing in Kufr Qana where 28 innocent civilians were killed by the Israelis. When asked about it, Ignatieff responded in a Dan Halutz fashion and said that he "didn't lose sleep over it".
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| Michal Biletzky, PhD student at Boston University, denounces Israel "aggression" against Lebanon |
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| YES - If they could cause more civilian casualties in Israel, they probably would. But they can’t! Israel can, and does! |
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| Haim Bresheeth brags about being Anti-Zionist on PLO web site
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| I have been an anti-Zionist for 3 decades, and have spoken on numerous occasions against the continuation of the illegal occupation, racism in Israel, and especially in Israeli universities, where people like you are a blot on Jewish history, supporting and abetting the worst atrocities, out of sheer hate of the Palestinian other. |
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| Ella Habiba Shohat in her 'Reflections By An ARAB JEW', invents a new ethnicity
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Sephardic Oriental women often dye their dark hair blond, while the men have more than once been arrested or beaten when mistaken for Palestinians. What for Ashkenazi immigrants from Russian and Poland was a social aliya (literally "ascent") was for Oriental Sephardic Jews a yerida ("descent").
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| Hagit Borer cheering for the Palestinian "Right of Return" (return to destroying israel, that is) and Palestinian "Resistance" |
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| From nice safe Long Beach |
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| Hagit Borer, smearing Israel and Zionism at Cal State |
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She believed that Zionism and democracy were incompatible, and that Israel's occupation of the Palestinian West Bank needed to end for peace to begin.
"If you say a Zionist state cannot be democratic, you're immediately branded an anti-Semite," she said. "And if you're like me, you are branded a self-hating Jew." |
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| Professor Simona Sharoni joins the Solidarity-with-Terrorism Movement |
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| Sharoni, who served in the Israeli Army, will be discussing the militarization of Israeli society. As one of the founders of Women In Black, she will also discuss solidarity organizing with Palestinians as a personal and political journey, and will be looking at the current situation in the occupied territories, focusing on aftermath of the Gaza Disengagement. |
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| Terrorist websites love Avi Shlaim (Oxford, UK). After all, he has made an "academic" career out of bashing Israel - |
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One problem is that Israeli Arabs are treated as second-class citizens. Another problem arises in the Occupied Territories. The occupation calls Israeli democracy into question as it involves imposing coercive rule over another 3.5 million Arabs. Some sociologists refer to Israel as a ‘master-race democracy’, where democracy is for the Jews only as the master-race. This strikes me as too extreme and emotive a term. I would prefer to describe Israel as a flawed democracy and one which is increasingly going the route of South African with its apartheid practices.
If you look at Israel’s specific policies on the West Bank - the illegal Jewish settlements, the brutal military repression of the Arabs, the abuses of human rights, the habitual disregard for international law, the building of the so-called ‘security barrier’, the roads for the exclusive use of Jewish settlers – all make up a pretty ugly picture. If that is not apartheid, I don’t know what is.
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| Haim Bresheeth (UK) is Celebrated by Anti-Semites who call for the boycott of Israel |
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| In boycotting Israel, we will not only act against the continued brutal occupation of Palestine, and against the refusal of Israel to agree to withdraw from the Occupied Territories, and allow Palestinians a mere 22% of their own country to live in. We will also strike a blow against those international forces that are hell-bent on wreaking havoc in the Arab and Islamic world, on fighting the terror of Bin Laden with a terror which is much worse. Israel has for many years initiated and supported the ‘Clash of Civilisations' thesis, well before it became an item of religious belief in Washington – Israel's policies and actions were directed and focussed around this very understanding of international relations as a series of conflicts, dictated by ethnicity and cultural difference. |
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| Avi Shlain is loved by the anti-Israel Guardian: "Withdrawal is a prelude to annexation" |
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| 'America's policy towards the Middle East is myopic, muddled and mistaken. Only a negotiated settlement can bring lasting peace and stability to the area. And only America has the power to push Israel into such a settlement. It is high time the US got tough with Israel, the intransigent party and main obstacle to peace. Colluding in Sharon's selfish, uncivilised plan to destroy the Jewish homes in Gaza is not a historic step on the road to peace. ' |
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| Avi Shlaim, St. Antony's College, Oxford, fabricates some "New History" |
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| "Israel's error, then and now" is the headline of an article by British-Israeli historian Avi Shlaim, a professor and researcher at St. Antony's College, Oxford. Shlaim, whose article was published August 4 in the International Herald Tribune, is one of the "new historians." Like many of his peers, he is preoccupied with the systematic invalidation of the Zionist narrative in the Israeli-Arab conflict. This article is an example of a one-sided "academic" discussion, slanted against Israel and filled with hatred for the Jewish state. It's worth examining several examples of this hatred. |
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| "Who are the real terrorists in the Middle East?" by Oren Ben-Dor (Law, Southampton, UK)
Surprise, surpise, they are only the Israelis |
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| The truth is that there never could have been a partition of Palestine by ethically acceptable means. Israel was created through terror and it needs terror to cover-up its core immorality. Whenever there is a glimmer of stability, the state orders a targeted assassination, such as that in Sidon which preceded the current Lebanon crisis, knowing well that this brings not security but more violence. Israel's unilateralism and the cycle of violence nourish one another. |
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| Yael Korin calls Israel's birth a sin |
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| Watch her video here at a speech in California. Listen to Yael Korin's lies. |
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| BGU Post-Zionist Sociologist Uri Ram teaches post-Zionism and 'colonialism' at the New School in NY |
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| One-sided anti-Israel indoctrination, for a change |
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| OREN BEN-DOR (Southampton, UK, Law) thinks the Hamas's Victory offers new 'New Hope' ... that Israeli can at last be Destroyed |
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| Now, when Hamas is elected, it is the time to legitimate its voice. It is time to reinforce Hamas resistance to the immorality and uncritically accepted legitimacy which the world leaders have hitherto bestowed upon the Zionist project. The portrayal of Hamas' voice as a blunt denial of the "right of Israel to exist" has indeed belligerent tone to it, signalling destruction and annihilation. However, understanding this voice as an ethical cry to the world to not allow Israel the right to persist in its racist self-definition is a much better way of articulating the moral message. |
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| ASSAF ORON (University of Washington) urges the Presbyterians to Escalate their "Divestment from Israel Process" |
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"Regarding the American Jewish community: they are the most successful and powerful community in Jewish history, but they will forever feel vulnerable - as if the Holocaust may happen again any day. Fear drives all this community's actions regarding Israel. A Jewish peace activist recently wrote about how in many congregations, the people are afraid of speaking out because of their right-wing rabbi, and the same rabbi is afraid to speak out because of his right-wing congregation. In many ways, it is the Jewish spokespeople confronting you who are doubly out of touch – from the Jewish public's true opinions, and surely from Israeli and Palestinian reality. So be patient with them, but don't let them force their fears upon you."
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| Elad Orian, Faculty of Theology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Netherlands, thinks Israel's security fence is an environmental hazard. Better dead Jews than inconvenienced turtles.
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Officially, the fence serves as a security barrier to safeguard Israel from terrorist attack and it is not a border of any kind in future negotiations. This official line, Orian underlines, is highly unconvincing. ... He further notes that in effect Israel prevents real possibilities for the peace negotiations to prosper
and in fact, postpones any possible dialogues in the future.
At present, Orian is involved in joint Israeli and Palestinian protests against the construction of the fence. There are demonstrations spearheaded by popular committees in the villages and activist assemblies at least once a week. Called “fence intifada”, these are non-violent direct actions. |
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| Rann Bar-On (Duke) and the Solidarity-with-Terrorism Movement |
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| Another intercepted internal email by Rann Bar-On, the ISM leader at Duke University, recently bemoaned the fact that the ISM hasn’t received enough internationals to carry out their activities of interfering with Israel’s security fence and to shield PLO terrorists. (Rann, an Israeli national from a South African family, once refused to condemn suicide bombings against his fellow Israelis.) Thus, writes Bar-On, the ISM must rely on Israeli anarchists |
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| Uri Gordon, Doctoral Candidate, University of Oxford:
Leading the Struggle for an Anarchist State |
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Anarchism, in its re-emergence as a movement over the past decade, has been the site of manifold reconfigurations that distinguish it from previous cycles of left-libertarian political expression. ...
Yet another reconfiguration, less often mentioned by activists and commentators, is the unprecedented grounding of anarchist political commitments in the present tense. Having by and large abandoned the imagery of a “future anarchist society”, contemporary anarchist political culture focuses its discourses of
resistance and liberation on the here and now. This paper examines several dimensions of this present-tense orientation, with the view of strengthening our understanding of the relevance of anarchism to contemporary political theory. |
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| Oren Ben Dor (Law, Southampton) thinks boycotting Israel will make the Evil Jews abandon their Evil Natures (on the "Electronic Intifada") |
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'I write as an ex-Israeli, who happens to be a British academic. I write because experience has taught my conscience the harm that results from silencing free historical debate, the danger inherent in not letting the Other's voice challenge national heroic myths.
All my education in Israel was one sided, treating the Other as the enemy, the murderers, the rioters, the terrorists -- without alluding, in any way, to their pains and longings. For my teachers and, as a result, for me also, for many years, Zionism was beyond reproach; it was a return to the promised land as a result of persecution, it was draining the swamps, it was building a state based on Jewish genius.'
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| Oren Ben Dor (Southampton, Law, UK) demands more boycotts of Israeli universities so that they will become leftist indoctrination centers |
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To Create It, an Academic Boycott is Needed
All my education in Israel was one sided, treating the Other as the enemy, the murderers, the rioters, the terrorists -- without alluding, in any way, to their pains and longings. ...Instead, I write to make two urgent points which are germane to the upcoming debate on the AUT boycott of Israeli universities. First, overcoming naqba-denial in the Israeli academy is central to resolving the conflict in Palestine. Second as an academic of Israeli origin, I know that an academic boycott is needed to create the academic freedom which is needed to overcome naqba-denial.
The academic boycott is not simply another facet of a general boycott. It is much more important than that. The academic boycott is central to starting the process of Israeli self-examination that is a core prerequisite to a resolution of the conflict. |
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| ZALMAN AMIT (Concordia, Canada) thinks Israel has no academic freedom because an anti-Israel MA thesis filled with fabrications was rejected by a school
(writing in anti-Semitic Counterpunch web site) |
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| On April 22, the Association of University Teachers in the United Kingdom voted to boycott the University of Haifa in Israel. Supporters of the boycott referred to the university's treatment of one of its staff, Dr. Ilan Pappe, in the controversy over an MA thesis which had been written by Teddy Katz about events in 1948 in the Palestinian coastal village of Tantura, a few miles south of Haifa. |
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| Zalman Amit (Concordia, Canada) wants Canadaian Jews to stop Supporting the Zionist Entity
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| The Canadian Jewish community gives large amounts of money to Israeli institutions through official Canadian "charities" that have tax-deductible status. Since money is fungible, this means that the government of Canada is in effect subsidizing Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip to the tune of several million dollars a year. |
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| Dalit Baum, Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice, University of San Diego, defames Israel from nice safe San Diego |
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| DALIT BAUM, a peace activist with the Coalition of Women for a Just Peace, based in Tel Aviv, said her movement was a peace movement comprised of thousands of women and men who wanted to uproot racism in occupied Palestine. Ms. Baum gave a presentation of her movement’s activities which described the wall as just one part of an elaborate system of dissection of Palestinian people. ... Women were no longer able to sustain their livelihood as a result of the wall. Ms. Baum said a growing number of Israelis, from all sectors of society, opposed the construction of the wall and added that her movement was a grass-roots, non-partisan movement. Several demonstrations had taken place throughout the region and in many cases unarmed protesters had been shot by Israeli soldiers with live fire. |
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| Yael Korin, UCLA department of pathology, mourns dead Hamas Terror Chief at Rally for Terror |
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| Jewish peace activist Yael Korin, right, also a member of Women in Black-Los Angeles, addresses a rally protesting the assassination of Palestinian Sheik Ahmed Yassin, leader of Hamas, Saturday, March 27, 2004, outside the Israeli consulate in Los Angeles. |
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| Tamir Sorek, Assistant Professor of Israel Studies Department of Sociology University of Florida denounces Israel for being undemocratic |
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| The people upon whom the responsibility for suppressing the uprising has been inflicted are the students of the confusing educational system of "the Greater State of Israel." That system on the one hand preached democracy and condemned discrimination based on racial origin, yet on the other hand drew maps that gave legitimacy to a non-democratic racist regime. Today, hundreds of diligent students who learned the essence of democracy in civics classes are demanding to implement its principles in reality, or at least not to demand that they defend in practice the existence of a non-democratic regime. By this deed they are accused by the right wing of treachery and by the left wing of undermining the principles of a democratic regime (!) |
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| Uri Strauss (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) defines Israel as an Apartheid Regime |
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The following document was compiled by Uri Strauss* for the Electronic Intifada, from a UN document and from a report by Palestinian human rights organisations LAW. The document presents the internationally-accepted definition of 'Apartheid' alongside relevant examples of Israel's human rights record in the occupied territories.
The definition of apartheid is taken from the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid, ratified by United Nations General Assembly resolution 3068 (XXVIII) of 30 November 1973. |
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| Lines in the sand |
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Israeli architect Eyal Weizman won a competition to represent his country at an international conference. But the invitation was abruptly cancelled when it was discovered that his work criticised Israel's illegal settlements in the West Bank. He talks to Esther Addley about the politically loaded nature of planning in the region
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| About Tamir Sorek, organizing insurrection among Israeli soldiers from nice safe Florida |
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Tamir Sorek is one of over 400 Israeli reserve soldiers who have now signed a letter expressing their refusal to serve in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Their organization, Courage to Refuse, has ignited a small flame of hope in the otherwise unrelenting darkness of violence, terror, and repression in the Middle East.
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| Dr. Daniel Amit (at the time at University of Rome) - Letter calling for a boycott of the genocidal American imperialists |
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Science cannot stay neutral, especially after it has been so cynically used in the hands of the inspectors to disarm a country and prepare it for decimation by laser guided cluster bombs. No, science of the American variety has no recourse. I, personally, cannot see myself anymore sharing a common human community with American science. Unfortunately, I also belong to a culture of a similar spiritual deviation (Israel), and which seems to be equally incorrigible.
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