Leading Israeli journalist Gideon Levy talks to Democracy Now! on rising threats from the Zionist state to attack Iran. Being in the region now, and Israel and Palestine especially, I can say that talk of a possible strike is palpable but in reality most people don’t seem to believe that Netanyahu would actually do something…
If you don’t think Netanyahu and Barak are serious about bombing Iran, think again
Read this. Great scoop by Jewish American blogger Richard Silverstein.
Just another day of typical Israeli violence against Palestinians in Hebron
Soldiers out of military uniform were caught on camera on Tuesday afternoon assaulting a Palestinian man at Checkpoint 56 in Tel Rumeida, Old City of Hebron.
G4S, face of unaccountable outsourcing, still finding willing fools in Britain
The Guardian reports: G4S, the company at the centre of the Olympic security fiasco, has started to recruit staff to carry out criminal investigations for a… police… force, with duties that include house-to-house inquiries, giving evidence in court and undertaking “sensitive high-profile cases under limited supervision”. The news comes as two Cabinet ministers said the G4S failings…
Electronic Intifada reviews “After Zionism”
The following piece by Sarah Irving appears this week. As a writer, reviews are a double-edged sword. They’re helpful and interesting but I don’t always agree with their conclusions. This piece is no exception: After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine… is a new collection of essays edited by… Antony Loewenstein… and… Ahmed Moor. It is important to…
Read this to understand the reality of Israel’s “Jewish and democratic” occupation
A striking piece, in Yediot Ahronoth, translated for Peace Now: It is doubtful if this was the solution envisioned by the leaders of the social protest when they went out to demonstrate over the cost of housing in Israel.… But the impossible real estate prices and the unfreezing of land over the Green Line have…
How an Orthodox Jew believes in getting past Zionism
The Magnes Zionist, a fascinating Orthodox Jew who appears in my new book After Zionism, writes that imagining a land without ethnic chauvinism is possible, if only more Jews tried: I suppose I should be pleased that Rabbi Jeremy Rosen, whose… blog… I occasionally read with pleasure, contrasted favorably the Magnes Zionist’s posts with Avraham Burg’s recentop-ed… in…
Aslan Media selects “After Zionism” as Book of the Month
I’m happy to announce that Aslan Media, a leading American hub for Middle Eastern related issues, has selected my new book, After Zionism, as its August Book of the Month. Here’s my co-editor Ahmed Moor and yours truly talking about it:
White people commit terrorism, too
The kind of commentary that any sensible writer would make but alas they don’t. The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf explains: Observing that the Sunday attack on a Sikh temple in Wisconsin hasn’t attracted nearly as much attention as other shooting sprees, including last week’s rampage at an Aurora, Colorado movie theater, Robert Wright… wonders… if the disparity is…