Israeli chocolate company Max Brenner is a perfect target for a boycott against companies that support the Jewish state’s occupation of Palestinian land. From small acorns, bigger campaigns will grow: Palestinian solidarity activists launched a campaign last week targeting Israeli-owned chocolate franchise Max Brenner as part of a growing international movement to boycott Israeli products.…
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Define Jewish democracy
Leading Israeli commentator Bernard Avishai on the dirty little secret of the Jewish state: That Israel is for Jews, and let’s not be too fine about what Jewish means. That “Jewish and democratic” means doing what we’ve done to privilege “Zionism”–exclude non-Jews from “nationalized” land, empower (or pander to) orthodox rabbis, root identity, even citizenship,…
Jews need to learn the new rules of the game
Neocons have long tossed around the “anti-Semite” and “anti-Israel” accusations to stifle debate over American Middle East policy. It doesn’t work any longer.
Why can’t the Iraqis just love being killed?
Think Progress reports on the latest neo-con attempt to defend American violence in Iraq: AEI’s Fred Kagan, the architect of the Iraq surge, has a history of grossly misreading events on the ground in Iraq. In August 2007, amidst the height of skyrocketing violence in Iraq, Kagan claimed that “sectarian deaths” were “way down.” After…
What do the Palestinians think?
An alternative reading of the acclaimed Israeli film, Waltz with Bashir: To say that Palestinians are absent in Waltz with Bashir, to say that it is a film that deals not with Palestinians but with Israelis who served in Lebanon, only barely begins to describe the violence that this film commits against Palestinians. There is…
Standing in solidarity
And the tide continues to turn and turn: We salute the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) in Durban, and Western Australian dock worker members of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA), for refusing to handle Israeli cargo. Theirs is a courageous response to Israel’s attack on Palestinians in Gaza that, since December…
An Israel of the mind
My latest New Matilda column is about the recent Israeli elections and the issues of Jewish identity: Do the results of Israel’s recent election really point to significant changes in the Jewish state? According to most regional analysts, the results of Israel’s recent election signal a profound shift to the right. But a deeper reading…