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Israel/Palestine and the Apartheid Analogy: Critics, Apologists and Strategic lessons (Parts 1 & 2)
by Ran Greenstein I. Introduction In the last decade, the notion that the Israeli system of political and military control bears strong resemblance to the apartheid system in South Africa has gained ground. It is invoked regularly by movements and activists opposed to the 1967 occupation and to various other aspects of Israeli policies vis-í -vis […]
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Why Americans should oppose Zionism
Steven Salaita, The Electronic Intifada, 26 August 2010 Israel has been subject to some bad publicity recently. In 2008-09, it launched a brutal military campaign in the Gaza Strip that killed more than 400 Palestinian children. In May 2010, bumbling Israeli commandos murdered nine nonviolence activists on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla’s Mavi Marmara. It only […]
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The BDS Movement: Now with Plasma TV’s.
August 24 2010 by Jesse Bacon Sue Fisckoff writes in the JTA about the off season preparations of Team Israel, aka Hillel, the Jewish student organization. The article highlights the very real panic the Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement has caused and its automatic equation with anti-Semitism in the minds of some. Amanda Boris is nervous […]
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‘McCarthyism’ Rises in Israel
Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler JERUSALEM, Aug 26, 2010 (IPS) – Rightwing Israeli groups financially supported by Jewish and fundamentalist Christian groups from abroad are on a campaign to undermine free thought in Israeli universities. Collaterally, a move is under way by right-wing parties in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, to limit the freedom […]
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An Assault on Israeli Academic Freedom–and Liberal Values
August 26, 2010 By Neve Gordon On May 31, I joined some 50 students and faculty members who gathered outside Ben-Gurion University of the Negev to demonstrate against the Israeli military assault on the flotilla carrying humanitarian aid toward Gaza. In response, the next day a few hundred students marched toward the social-sciences building, Israeli […]
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Isolate the Israelis…
By Dr Ghada Karmi , Posted on » Wednesday, August 25, 2010 Can Israel survive its recent battering in public opinion? Many believe that this may be a defining moment in a long history of Israeli impunity. Hitherto, Israel’s record of recovery from international censure has been impressive. A string of past misdeeds – the […]
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IS ISRAEL AN APARTHEID STATE?
Renown journalist Jonathan Cook and top Israeli human rights lawyer Michael Sfard on apartheid & Israel.
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The Jewish Response
By Mark Baraverman – There were two groups of Jewish attendees at the 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) in Minneapolis early this month. One was composed of several members of Jewish Voice for Peace, Jeff Halper of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, and me. ImageWe were there at the invitation of […]
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Is the Israeli academy facing a McCarthyite era?
7 August 2010 By Matthew Reisz Political interference could put freedom of speech in universities at stake, says Matthew Reisz When it comes to the Israeli academy, said David S. Katz, director of the Lessing Institute for European History at Tel Aviv University, “we are entering a McCarthyite phase – and I do not exaggerate”. […]
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Survey concerning Haifa University and its treatment of the Palestinian Students: A chronicle of discrimination and racism
Baladna Association for Arab Youth | August 2010 SUMMARY The reality of Haifa University is significantly remote from that of a campus based on values of academic freedom and action. The fact that in many cases the University acts as the extension of Israeli policy when addressing the Palestinian people as a whole indicates that […]
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