Category Archives: Palestine & Israel

Moral inequivalence in Israel and Palestine

Posted on May 2, 2003 by Ampersand

From a lecture by Sara Roy, “Living With the Holocaust: The Journey of a Child of Holocaust Survivors”: Israel’s occupation of the Palestinians is not the moral equivalent of the Nazi genocide of the Jews. But it does not have … Continue reading →

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That unbiased Jerusalem Post

Posted on March 31, 2003 by Ampersand

So you’re working at your office, and you hear gunshots outside. Looking into the hall, you see a young man out there and let him into your office so he doesn’t get caught in the crossfire. A couple of minutes … Continue reading →

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Women's rights around the world

Posted on February 18, 2003 by Ampersand

Afghan women want “real, not just symbolic, rights.” A Reuters report on a women’s rights conference held in Afghanistan, “a conference which would have been unthinkable under the rule of the fundamentalist Taliban, but nevertheless underlined how far women have … Continue reading →

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The Independent responds to antisemitic cartoon charges

Posted on January 31, 2003 by Ampersand

Here’s the cartoon in question… And read this link explaining what the blood libel myth is, if you don’t know already. Trish Wilson provides a link to The Independent’s response page: it includes three defenses of the cartoon, one written … Continue reading →

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Is this Political Cartoon Anti-Semitic?

Posted on January 30, 2003 by Ampersand

Letters from Gotham points out a grossly anti-Semitic cartoon from The Independent which draws on the old “Jews eat gentile children” blood libel. She also provides an email address for The Independent’s news editor, in case folks would like to … Continue reading →

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Palestine Solidarity Conference at the University of Michigan

Posted on October 11, 2002 by Ampersand

Meryl Yourish has posted a legal brief by some folks who were suing to shut down the "“Second National Student Conference on the Palestine Solidarity Movement" (Occam’s Toothbrush posted some quotes from the same document). A few comments: I have … Continue reading →

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Anti-Semitism redux, redux. Er, redux.

Posted on October 10, 2002 by Ampersand

The Lincoln Plawg has a good piece dissecting Larry Summers’ famous speech (as regular readers know, this is a subject I’ve commented on a time or three myself). Here’s a sample from the Lincoln Plawg: There are two main objections … Continue reading →

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The Least Anti-Semitic Place in America? A College Campus.

Posted on October 10, 2002 by Ampersand

Anti-Semitism is rampaging over our college campuses, right? Well, maybe not. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) – a group who no one could accuse of being in denial about anti-Semitism – ran a survey which found just the opposite. According to … Continue reading →

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When is calling a Jew a Nazi not anti-Semitic? When she's a feminist Jew.

Posted on October 9, 2002 by Ampersand

(Note: I’ve also criticized leftist anti-Semitism and partisanship. But because this post responds to others’ disagreements with me, and no one disagreed with that point, it doesn’t come up in this post.) In an earlier post, I wrote this: [Cathy … Continue reading →

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