The calls for boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel are growing by the day. But is it the right way forward? Noam Chomsky argued in 2003 that it is not: The academic boycott of Israel is wrong, says linguistics professor and political dissident Noam Chomsky. Academics angered by the failure to resolve the Palestine issue…
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Mis-calculation on all sides
The Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram quoted Hamas’ political leader Khaled Meshal on Tuesday as saying his Islamist group was surprised by the force Israel recently used against it in the Gaza Strip. Meshal, who was speaking at an Arab conference on Gaza in the Qatari capital Doha, reportedly told a closed forum that Hamas had believed…
Zionist racism up close
Part 1: A heated confrontation erupted Tuesday morning between an Arab and a right-wing Knesset member before the start of a Supreme Court hearing on an appeal filed by two Arab parties against the decision to bar them from running in the upcoming elections. MK Talab El-Sana (United Arab List-Ta’al) called out towards Yisrael Beiteinu…
The animals from Israel
A family returns to the ruins of Gaza and finds this: He returned yesterday to find the houses ransacked and scarcely habitable, with furnishing and electrical appliances tossed out of the window, gaping holes in the wall made for firing positions, furniture smashed, clothes piled on the floor, pages of family Korans torn out and…
Fighting “terror” with terror
Israel is being accused of using white phosphorus on civilian areas in Gaza. The following photographs come from a normally reliable source and were taken at the UNRWA School in Beit Lahia in Gaza: To get a visual feeling of what it means for a school – sheltering civilians – to be subjected to Israeli…
A Jewish state is wonderful for the Jews
The Israeli government is stepping up efforts to suppress dissent and crush resistance in the streets. Police have been videotaping the demonstrations and subsequently arresting protesters in large numbers. According to Israeli police reports, at least 763 Israeli citizens, the majority of them Palestinian and 244 under 18 years old, have been arrested, imprisoned or…
Bombs won’t maintain the “dream”
Saudi Arabian King Abdullah warned on Monday that a 2002 Arab initiative offering peace with Israel would not remain on the table forever. Israel must understand that the choice between war and peace would not always stay open, Abdullah told delegates in Kuwait City at a summit focused on boosting economic growth and development in…
How to defend this?
With foreign observers starting to enter Gaza, it is undeniably clear that Israel committed war crimes over the last three weeks (including the bombing of nearly 70 schools). Plus this: Doctors operating the only brain-scanning machine at an Egyptian hospital near Gaza have been almost overwhelmed by the number of Palestinian children arriving with bullet…
Let’s hope I’m “problematic”
Should I be expecting a visit soon? The Immigrant Absorption Ministry announced on Sunday it was setting up an “army of bloggers,” to be made up of Israelis who speak a second language, to represent Israel in “anti-Zionist blogs” in English, French, Spanish and German… During the war, we looked for a way to contribute…
And we grow in number
The Secretary General of the Foundation for Moroccan Jewish Heritage, Simon Lévy, has denounced the Israeli aggression on Gaza, and called on the international community to intervene to solve the conflict. “We are horrified by the carnage that can’t be justified and which killed around 1,000 people in Gaza,” said Levy in a statement to…