Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) is an on-going campaign by some Palestinian and pro-Palestinian groups, calling for – well – boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel to nudge it towards the end of occupation and discrimination of Palestinians both within and beyond the green line. It has garnered some support internationally, and even among Israeli [...]
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I’ve recently read Lene Hansen’s Security As Practice. The book offers a methodological framework for post-structuralist discourse analysis.1 I must admit the book got me quite excited, in as much as one may use terms like “excitement” when discussing methodology, and I’m now considering revising (slightly) the goals of my thesis [...] In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill. - Winston Churchill Bi-nationalism has never had much support in the Zionist movement. Only tiny, fringe groups such as Brit Shalom and the Ihud movement, as well as a few notable personalities such as Martin Buber and Judah Magnes, have supported this idea in the [...] My friend Rod wrote at length against a binational solution to the Jewish-Palestinian conundrum. He does not so much oppose the idea of binationalism, but rather has serious doubts about the availability of a route to binational salvation that does not travel through some horrendous gutters. I disagree with him. A route to binationalism does [...] The current policy space includes two major options being seriously debated: the single-nation-state solution, and the Two-State solution. The latter is the one supported by most of those identified with the peace camp: two states, Israel and Palestine, living peacefully one next to the other. The other solution is actually two solutions, each supported by [...] Israel is currently experiencing a rush of new bills that either passed or are close to passing, that have raised the ire of quite a few Israeli bloggers, but hardly much beyond that. While the media is obsessing over a law that stipulated state-owned land that has been leased to individuals for 98 years actually [...] As the resident Political Scientist on the blog, I thought it might be prudent to write my first post on an issue that might confuse non-Israeli readers of a blog that features the word “left” so prominently in its title. Throughout the civilized world, the word “left” means something on the continuum between social-democrats and communists. [...] |
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