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 [...] The following is a personal reflection, or some ungathered thoughts about what happened exactly a year ago. This is not an analysis or a review of the war in the Gaza strip and southern Israel last winter, cynically called here ‘cast-lead’. Many of those already exist around the web. I just wanted to add a [...] 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 [...] On the issue of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, some speak of a bi-national state as the optimal solution. In their vision, they see Israel-Palestine as a sort of Belgium or, to a lesser extent, Canada- a country where Jews and Palestinians co-exist under one democracy and lead their lives together happily and peacefully. Just recently the Palestinian chief [...] Almost every year I go to the Yitzhak Rabin memorial, which takes place at the square that now carries his name in Tel Aviv. Almost every year I am disappointed with the speeches, and with what the entire event says about the Israeli left. Yet, almost every year, as my friends swear it to be [...] While Israel maintains that it is the Jewish state, the majority of the world Jewry doesn’t reside in Israel. Based on 2007 figures, only 41 per cent of world Jewry actually do live in Israel. But Israel’s legitimacy as a self proclaimed nation state, while it should [...] “I do not avoid women, Mandrake, but I do deny them my essence.” – General Ripper A curious article appeared in the fall 2005 Issue of Azure, an Israeli-American conservative Journal. It was called “Voodoo Demographics”, and its authors claimed that the so-called “demographic threat” was an academic fiction, conjured by “Big Demography” in order to [...] |
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