Today’s LA Times marks the sixtieth anniversary of Israel’s independence with a report extolling the virtues of the so-called “one-state solution.”
Jimmy Carter thinks Hamas is a reasonable organization and that it’s Israel that’s being unreasonable.
The readers of this blog are a diverse bunch, so no doubt some will have reservations about the various outfits behind this initiative. However, you are being urged to blog about the human rights abuses in Darfur - and there’s every reason to do so.
Useful links, and all in one place - courtesy of Simply Jews.
I ended my last post with these words: “…which could result in Ken Livingstone - a seasoned anti-Zionist since the early 1980s - winning yet again.”
See David Hirsh here on Livingstone’s record of bigotry.
A quick plug for Harry’s Place, which relaunches online with a snazzy new look. Reasons to pay them a visit today, other than to see the makeover? London’s mayoral election takes place today, and Harry’s has worthwhile coverage of a contest which could result in Ken Livingstone - a seasoned anti-Zionist since the early 1980s - winning yet again.
Sixty years after the establishment of the State of Israel, Anthony David contributes to the Z Word web site a profile of Sari Nusseibeh, arguably the most important Palestinian intellectual alive today, which concentrates on the moral and philosophical aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Even if it’s obvious that Engage is, without question, the best source for information about the latest academic boycott initiative in the UCU (as well as the initiatives in 2005, 2006 and 2007…), I still want to encourage readers of this blog to check out the latest offerings over there.
Elif Kayi, Z Word’s European press reviewer, reports on Gregor Gysi’s declaration of solidarity with Israel.
There is a common perception that the European left is uniformly hostile to Israel. In that respect, Germany appears to have bucked the trend.
Continue reading ‘German Leftists Declare Solidarity with Israel’
Here’s a fascinating letter written by Zipporah “Zippy” Porat, a young American student who spent the Passover holiday in 1948 in a Jerusalem under siege from Arab forces. An Ashkenazi Jew, she spent seder night with a Ladino-speaking Sephardic family.
