There’s a certain irony about the title of Avraham Burg’s forthcoming book, “The Holocaust Is Over: We Must Rise from its Ashes.” Those very same words could be the motto of the State of Israel itself, given its emergence just three years after the defeat of Nazism.
Petra recommends this “interview” with Theodor Herzl, founder of modern Zionism. Whether or not historical exercises like these are your cup of tea, it’s hard to disagree with “Herzl” on the social agenda.
I try, inasmuch as I can, to ensure that I cast around the blogosphere for interesting material (same goes for non-blog sources) which deserves a wider audience. In that spirit, I just have to share something that I came across this morning.
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 you’ll find the latest installment of Sam Fleischacker’s series “A Cool Hour on the Israel-Palestine Conflict” here. You’ll find my comments on previous installments behind these numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. On this occasion Fleischacker deals with questions relating to the idea of collective ownership of particular territories.
Continue reading ‘A Response To “A Cool Hour on the Israel-Palestine Conflict 6”’
Over at Normblog, there’s a great post by Eve Gerrard in which she goes to work on certain arguments against Zionism.
I have already commented on the first four posts of a series by Samuel Fleischacker - hereinafter SF - on the Israeli-Palestinian dispute currently appearing over at Normblog here, here, here and here. The fifth in the series, dealing with the validity or otherwise of the historical claims of the parties, appeared yesterday and here are some comments on it.
Continue reading ‘A Response To “A Cool Hour on the Israel-Palestine Conflict 5”’
In what Yediot Ahronot has billed as a “legacy interview” on the occasion of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has - as he himself says - expressed ideas unheard from any previous Israeli leader.
There follows my response to certain matters raised in the third post, titled “Racism and Anti-Semitism”, in a series by Samuel Fleischacker - hereinafter referred to as SF - about the Israel-Palestinian conflict, currently appearing over at Normblog. My responses to the two previous posts can be found here and here.
Continue reading ‘A Response To “A Cool Hour on the Israel-Palestine Conflict 3”’
There follow some comments on Samuel Fleischacker’s second post in a series on the Israel-Palestine conflict which is appearing over at Normblog. You’ll find my response to his first post here.
Continue reading ‘A Response To “A Cool Hour on the Israel-Palestine Conflict 2”’
Over at Normblog and under the title ‘A Cool Hour on the Israel-Palestine Conflict’, Samuel Fleischacker begins what promises to be an extremely interesting series of posts here. Although I share his overall view that what is involved in this conflict is a “tragic clash of just claims”, I’d like to take issue here with some of the points he makes.
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An oft heard complaint from practitioners of the new, cool, environmentally responsible, GMO free antisemitism is that participants in the great Zionist conspiracy use their influence in the media to stifle criticism of Israel. This leads them to make much use of such phrases as “speaking out”, “refusing to be silenced” and suchlike.
Continue reading ‘Stifling Criticism - The Case of Evelyn Hecht-Galinski’
The Buenos Aires Herald was founded in 1876 and has been published without interruption ever since. Despite the decline in recent decades of the English-speaking community that used to form its core readership, it continues to have a respectable circulation. The newspaper takes pride in the courage its journalists displayed during the 1976 - 1983 military dictatorship when they were among the very few to speak out against the mass slaughter of the government’s opponents. In December 2007 it was taken over by the group owned by media magnate Sergio Spolszky.
The latest edition of CQ Global Researcher, published by the Congressional Quarterly, is devoted to the question of antisemitism in Europe. It contains a debate between myself and Antony Lerman - director of the London-based Institute for Jewish Policy Research - on the relationship between anti-Zionism and antisemitism.
Continue reading ‘Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism: Ben Cohen Debates Antony Lerman’
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