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Monthly Archives: July 2011
The Norway Killings: Jumping the Gun
The herd mentality of pundits and commentators was on display as they fell over each other to immediately blame the Norway killings on Muslim extremists. It wasn’t long before it became clear that the culprit, Anders Behring Breivik, was a blond … Continue reading
Israel and the Anti-Boycott Law: The Wider Implications of Popular Indifference
This piece is cross-posted from openDemocracy where it was published on 19 July. A small part of it appeared in my earlier post on the anti-boycott law (13 July). The motivation for the law is not primarily to give voice … Continue reading
IJV Panel on the Arab Uprisings and the Israel-Palestine Conflict
This piece is cross-posted from the Independent Jewish Voices blog Chaired by Professor Jacqueline Rose (Queen Mary, University of London), the IJV panel event discussing the impact of the Arab Spring on developments in Israel-Palestine, which was held at Birkbeck, University of … Continue reading
Posted in Middle East
Tagged 2-state solution, Al Jazeera, Arab Spring, Fatah, Hamas, Islamism, Israel, Palestine, peace process, UN General Assembly
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The Anti-Boycott Law Crosses a Line: Will Israel’s True Friends Now Wake Up?
Only a few days ago I was talking about the issue of boycotting Israel with Jewish friends at a party. All could be defined as critical friends of Israel or liberal Zionists, deeply disturbed by the intransigence of the Netanyahu … Continue reading
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Former Canadian Minister of Justice Cotler: ‘Calling Israel an Apartheid State is Not Antisemitic’
Professor Irwin Cotler, the former Canadian Minister of Justice and Chairman of the Inter-Parliamentary Commission for Combatting Antisemitism, recently told Ha’aretz journalist David Sheen: ‘You can criticize an Israeli policy or action as having been not only a violation of … Continue reading
Posted in Antisemitism
Tagged apartheid, EUMC, Irwin Cotler, Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, new antisemitism, racism, UCU, Zionism
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