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Judith Butler's Remarks to Brooklyn College on BDS

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February 7, 2013

 

Only if we accept the proposition that the state of Israel is the exclusive and legitimate representative of the Jewish people would a movement calling for divestment, sanctions and boycott against that state be understood as directed against the Jewish people as a whole. Israel would then be understood as co-extensive with the Jewish people. There are two major problems with this view. First, the state of Israel does not represent all Jews, and not all Jews understand themselves as represented by the state of Israel. Secondly, the state of Israel should be representing all of its population equally, regardless of whether or not they are Jewish, regardless of race, religion or ethnicity.

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NY’s LGBT center acting like medieval church: bans Sarah Schulman

Muzzlewatch, February 13, 2013

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the actions of the leadership of New York’s famed LGBT community center are an inexplicable embarrassment, a medieval-era violation of virtually every principle of free thought and queer social understanding: (...) the center has refused to allow the renowned writer Sarah Schulman to speak about her new book, Israel/Palestine and the Queer International because of its topic. (I suppose if she actually just showed up with the books, they’d have to burn them.)

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Just War Moral Philosophy and the 2008–09 Israeli Campaign in Gaza

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International Security, Fall 2012

According to Matti Steinberg, former head adviser on Palestinian affairs to the Israeli security organization Shin Bet, Hamas had refrained from attacking civilians inside Israel until Baruch Goldstein’s February 1994 murder of twenty-nine Palestinians in a Hebron mosque. When Prime Minister Rabin, fearing violent conoict with Jewish settlers, refused to withdraw them from Hebron in the aftermath of the massacre, Hamas retaliated with suicide bombings in Israel. (...) Even so, three years later Khaled Meshal, then the chief Hamas leader, conveyed an offer to Israel, through King Hussein of Jordan, to reach an understanding on a cease-are to last thirty years. Israel not only ignored the offer but, a few days later, Israeli operatives tried to assassinate Meshal in Amman by poisoning him.

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Ebrei arabi

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29/01/20113

La storia degli ebrei arabi in Medio Oriente è piena di contraddizioni e dolorosa per chi l’ha vissuta in prima persona. Spinti o costretti a lasciare i loro paesi d’origine, come l’Egitto, la Siria, il Libano, paesi nei quali avevano costituito per secoli delle comunità spesso maggiormente integrate rispetto a quelle presenti in Occidente per le ripercussioni dovute alla fondazione dello stato di Israele. Che ruolo possono avere gli ebrei di origine araba nel conflitto mediorientale? E qual è la loro storia?

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What I learned about empire in the West Bank

Waging Nonviolence, January 30, 2013

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At the edge of the West Bank village of Faqqua, an Israeli soldier watches from the other side of the Green Line. (Left in Focus/Bryan MacCormack)

 

We saw more of the West Bank than most of its inhabitants have. Traveling means paying fuel prices few can afford, hours stopped at checkpoints, and the risk of arbitrary search and seizure. Common to each place we went were the stories of arrests, of detainment, of night raids, of settler attacks. The tellers tended to speak matter-of-factly, in a tone of voice dulled to the terror and misery of the contents. (...)

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