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Écrit par Lincoln Z. Shlensky reports an article by Neve Gordon
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Jeudi, 02 Septembre 2010 16:09 |
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Jewish Peace News, September 1, 2010
The anti-liberal and anti-democratic agenda of the American right and the Israeli right are forging closer connections than ever, as Dr. Neve Gordon, a professor of politics at Ben-Gurion University, points out in the following article about threats to academic freedom in Israel. The McCarthyite tactics of those in Israel who wish to suppress dissenting views of professors (and students) is remniscent of incidents such as The David Project's notorious "Columbia Unbecoming" film, Daniel Pipes's "Campus Watch" project to recruit students to spy on American professors critical of Israel, and the drumming out of Norman Finkelstein from his academic post at DePaul University. Neve Gordon explains, however, that as Israel is becoming ever more polarized, its most worrisome right-wing extremists have moved closer to the center of political power. In their witch-hunt against leftist dissenters, who are increasingly portrayed as "traitors," organizations like Im Tirtzu have received support from American backers such as the Rev. John C. Hagee and Alan Dershowitz. (But Hagee recently was forced to drop his support for Im Tirtzu, in what Didi Remez calls a "neocon-theocon proxy war" <http://bit.ly/bYlYTV>.) Gordon's article on the erosion of academic freedom appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, suggesting that American academics are concerned about the rapid fading of civic discourse in Israel and about threats to the intellectual autonomy of their Israeli colleagues.
--Lincoln Z. Shlensky
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Écrit par Redazione Esteri
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Mardi, 31 Août 2010 04:18 |
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Il Manifesto, 29 Agosto 2010
GAZA/ISRAELE
Diversi gruppi delle comunità ebraiche in Gran Bretagna e Germania, insieme al Blocco della Pace di Israele hanno annunciato ieri di essere pronti a organizzare una nave «ebrea» per rompere l'embargo alla striscia di Gaza. Nessuna informazione specifica è stata finora diffusa circa il luogo e la data esatti della partenza, per evitare che l'iniziativa venga ostacolata. I promotori appartengono a organizzazioni ebraiche contrarie alla politica di Tel Aviv e pronte a sfidarla. Il portavoce del Blocco della Pace Adam Keller ha spiegato che l'iniziativa è opera di associazioni che esistono da una decina di anni e che cercano di coordinare i vari gruppi di ebrei dissidenti, che condannano l'occupazione delle terre palestinesi e l'embargo imposto alla striscia di Gaza. In un loro comunicato le associazioni promotrici accusano Tel Aviv di considerarsi la rappresentante dell'ebraismo nel mondo, assecondata da molte comunità ebraiche. Questa flottiglia ebraica vuole dimostrare invece che in Israele e nel mondo ci sono ebrei che dissentono dalla politica di occupazione e oppressione del popolo palestinese, che danneggia lo stesso Israele. Un'altra organizzatrice, Edith Lutz ha aggiunto che questa «nave simbolica» darà ad Israele l'opportunità di dimostrare al mondo che esiste una «via alternativa» per risolvere li conflitti. Nonostante tutto, la coordinatrice palestinese della freedom flotilla Lubna Masarweh, membro del Free Gaza Movement, esprime qualche dubbio al proposito e ritiene improbabile che «queste associazioni ebraiche riusciranno ad organizzare una nave solo con le loro forze». Più verosimile, secondo lei, è che andranno a formare una flotta con altre navi. |
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Écrit par Jesse Bacon
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Lundi, 30 Août 2010 07:25 |
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August 24, 2010
Seeing Jews who disagree with you.
When the student government at the University of California, San Diego voted on a divestment bill in April, Hillel campus director Keri Copans noted some Jewish students standing across the room with the pro-divestment crowd, even as most Jewish students stood with her in opposing the bill.
The article does not actually interview any of these strange creatures, these Jews for BDS (...).
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Écrit par Alistair Welchman
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Dimanche, 29 Août 2010 12:21 |
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Jewish Peace News, August 7, 2010
Persistent Israeli- and US-led rejection of a two-state solution in Israel/Palestine has led to the emergence—on the left and among Palestinian activists—of serious proposals for a single state for everyone west of the Jordan River. One of the most detailed outlines is contained in Ali Abunimah's book One Country: A Bold Proposal. The idea has been permitted an airing in the mainstream press (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2003/oct/23/israel-the-alternative/), although only to be rejected. And it has also been subject to harsh critique from the left as well. Noam Chomsky, for instance, has forcefully rejected advocacy for a single state (http://counterpunch.org/barat06062008.html and commentary at http://jewishpeacenews.blogspot.com/2008/06/chomsky-and-pappe-on-future-of-israel.html), although he insists that it is important to distinguish carefully between a single democratic state of all its citizens and a bi-national state. Chomsky claims a bi-national state (in which national entities with a high degree of autonomy are joined together into a single state, like Catalonia in Spain) is a reasonable ultimate goal for the region. But it's not possible, he argues, to advocate for this because the only way to get there is via two states that might in the future enter into closer relations. By contrast, a single state of all its citizens has almost no prospect of coming about, not least because (as Uri Avnery points out) Jews would likely soon be a numerical minority in such a state and so it would be tantamount to the abandonment of Zionism.
Now, as Noam Sheizaf reports in Ha'aretz (first article below), proposals for a single state are emerging from the right too. And not from marginal figures, but from the likes of Moshe Arens, a former defense and foreign affairs minister, Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, Likud MK Tzipi Hotovely, Uri Elitzur, former chairman of the Yesha Council of Settlements and Hanan Porat, one of the founders of Gush Emunim. The proposals merit very serious attention, especially from those on the left who are tempted by some sort of one state solution. The fact that it is being taken seriously on the right both makes it much more likely that a single state would be implemented and show what the likely contours of acceptability such a state would have for the Israeli establishment.
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Écrit par Racheli Gai
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Vendredi, 20 Août 2010 21:12 |
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Jewish Peace News, August 18, 2010
Consider signing a petition in support of the Bedouin village of Al-Araqib, which was just demolished for the fourth time. You can also help by spreading the word.
Thanks,
Racheli.
"As American Jews and others who care deeply for Israel, we join with many Israelis, both Jewish and Arab, in raising our voices in protest at the destruction of the Bedouin village of Al-Arakib in the Negev and the forcible removal by some 1,500 Israeli police of over 300 Bedouin Israeli citizens – mostly children – leaving them homeless, expelled from their land, and bereft of their possessions.
On July 27, bulldozers from the Israel Lands Administration (ILA) demolished their homes, sheep pens, fruit orchards and olive tree groves, so that a forest can be planted on their land near Beersheva.
The residents of the village have started to rebuild their homes, but ILA bulldozers and the Israel Police have demolished the new buildings twice during the past week.
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