It’s not surprising - especially when you recall that Canada announced its decision to pull out back in January - but Israel has finally confirmed that it will not participate in the UN’s Durban II anti-racism conference in 2009.
Archive for the 'anti-Zionism' Category
David Hirsh has weighed in on the event at London University’s Goldsmiths College which advertised a seamless link between the Warsaw Ghetto and the current situation in Gaza.
A gray-haired, white-skinned, male journalist is savaging the first black President of the United States as an unreconstructed warmonger, under a headline lifted from the title of a Public Enemy track released back in 1988. Yes, it’s John Pilger.
Ed Morgan is a Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. In this fascinating column, he relates two recent experiences which persuaded him that rational, informed debate is not always the norm in the ivory tower.
Continue reading ‘Ed Morgan: The “One-State” Crowd Up Close’
On her consistently excellent blog, Petra Marquardt-Bigman takes aim at the activists of London University’s Goldsmith’s college who draw a seamless line between the Warsaw Ghetto and what they describe as the Gaza “Ghetto.”
If you look here you’ll find an interesting letter in today’s Guardian. It’s from Professor Shindler of the School of Oreiental and African Studies of the University of London and succintly deals with certain aspects of the relationship between some Palestinian nationalists and Nazi Germany.
In a few days, the seventieth anniversary of Kristallnacht - the terrible night of 9/10 November 1938, when the Nazis launched a vicious pogrom against the Jews of Germany - will be marked. Sadly, if not surprisingly , it seems that some people are bent on portraying this as principally a Palestinian tragedy, rather than a Jewish one.
Back in August, I wrote extensively about an organization which bills itself as the “Free Gaza” movement (see here, here and here.) The aim of this organization is to break what it bills as the “Israeli siege” of Gaza. To this end, it has organized two boat trips of activists to the Strip. Each time, the activists have issued hysterical predictions about being blocked by the Israeli Navy. And each time, they have been permitted to dock without so much as a warning shot fired in their direction.
The Rev Naim Ateek, head of Sabeel - a Palestinian Christian group identified with liberation theology, but which frequently descends into antisemitism - has expressed support for an organization known for its Christian sympathies: Hamas.
Fears of Durban redux continue to multiply ahead of next year’s UN follow-up conference to the August 2001 event which showcased antisemitism in its starkest form.
Omar Barghouti is a leading advocate of BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) against Israel and a key figure in PACBI (the Palestinian Campaign for an Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel). If his latest article on the execrable Counterpunch website is anything to go by, Barghouti is worried that some boycotters are getting cold feet.
Continue reading ‘Antisemitism Lies at the Heart of the Boycott Movement’
Via Engage, which has valiantly marshalled both the arguments and the bodies to confront the UCU’s academic boycott, comes news that court action is imminent.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson is known for his careless mouth - remember that recent remark about what he’d do to a certain part of Barack Obama’s anatomy? Such free association has often landed him in fights with the Jewish community. These tend to follow a pattern. He says something outrageous (for example, back in 1984, he referred to New York as “hymietown” in a conversation with a journalist,) a furore follows, he eventually apologizes, there is both hope and expectation that it won’t happen again, and then…it happens again.
Noel Ignatiev is one the last people you would expect to be authoring an entry on Zionism for an encyclopedia published under a well-known, trusted imprint. But open Volume 3 of the “Encyclopedia of Race and Racism,” which carries the names of both Macmillan Reference USA (now owned by the Michigan-based Gale, Cengage Learning company) and the Macmillan Social Science Library, and you will see that he has done just that.
Continue reading ‘Macmillan USA Encyclopedia Damns Zionism as Racism’
Over at Normblog, there’s a great post by Eve Gerrard in which she goes to work on certain arguments against Zionism.
