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A wee bit more on Helen Thomas
I’d really rather stop writing about this – I have a post about compost (a com-post?) that’s been sitting on the backburner for about two weeks now – but I’ve been absolutely gobsmacked by the tropes people are pulling out … Continue reading
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Why Does Egypt Support The Gaza Blockade?
One question I’ve seen come up again and again this week is, why has Egypt’s Mubarak regime been blockading Gaza — an extraordinarily unpopular move not only worldwide, but within Egypt? The best answer I’ve seen comes from Issandr Amrani, … Continue reading
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Some facts that people with an opinion on Israel need to have.
The context (via Feministe). 1. Jews have lived continuously in Palestine, in varying numbers, since before the destruction of the second temple. To say that Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine” implies that the actions of the Israeli … Continue reading
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Thousands Protest Settlers In Jerusalem
For me, this was the most exciting news all week. The Magnes Zionist describes the scene: Around five thousand demonstrators protested the eviction of Arab families from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem and the settlement … Continue reading
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J Street and Poetry and Jewish Politics and Jewish Poets and Jewish Poetics and Holocaust Trivialization and Israel and Palestine and antisemitism and How Can Culture be a Tool for Change if You Won't Let Culture do its Work? – Part 1
Note: Portions of this post were edited on January 19 to correct problems that resulted from careless cutting and pasting. Oy! So I was, with mild interest, reading the conversation that was beginning to develop around the post written by … Continue reading
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J Street Los Angeles!
Because I am a glutton for punishment with no sense of restraint, when the email came in saying that J Street was opening up local chapters, not only did I immediately sign up, but I checked off every single skills/interests … Continue reading
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"The Myths of Liberal Zionism," by Yitzhak Laor – I want to read this book
Writing in the January issue of Harper’s Magazine, Joshua Cohen wrote this at the end of his review of Laor’s book: It often seems that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is just […] a textual problem. If so, then the muddle of … Continue reading
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Reading Suheir Hammad’s ZaatarDiva and Kazim Ali’s The Far Mosque
This review was originally posted on a literary blog that no longer exists called The Great American Pinup. My understanding is that the blog was hacked and that attempts by the people who ran the blog to resolve things using … Continue reading
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"We don’t have a police state here in Palestine. We have two police states."
From Antiwar.com: “We don’t have a police state here in Palestine. We have two police states. One in Gaza and one in the West Bank,” says Rabie Latifah from the Palestinian human rights organization Al Haq. “The abuse of Palestinian … Continue reading
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Contrast
The following advertisement aired on Israeli TV: The following clip was filmed in Palestine: Fantasy is a strange thing. (via Lenin’s Tomb)
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