Category: Palestine

An ideology of ethno-racial chauvinism

On “Israel’s Right to Exist” By Sheldon Richman, Monday, May 21st, 2012 … When I posted Sharmine Narwani’s provocative article “Excuse Me, But Israel Has No Right to Exist” on Facebook, I got an inappropriate reaction from libertarians. It was summed up by one comment this way: No territorial State has the right to exist. They …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/05/23/ideology-ethnoracial-chauvinism/

Last remnants of modern-day colonialism

Excuse Me, But Israel Has No Right To Exist By Sharmine Narwani, Thu, 2012-05-17 21:46 … The phrase “right to exist” entered my consciousness in the 1990s just as the concept of the two-state solution became part of our collective lexicon. In any debate at university, when a Zionist was out of arguments, those three magic …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/05/17/last-remnants-of-modern-day-colonialism/

Just how far right

Zionist history: A short quiz By Neve Gordon, 06 May 2012 13:37 … Not long after Israel celebrated its 64th Independence Day on April 26, a friend prepared a quiz of sorts. She read out loud political quotes to about ten guests who were having dinner at my house, and asked us to identify the …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/05/06/just-how-far-right/

And it’s over?

‘We’ve gone way beyond Apartheid’ By Frank Barat, 02 May 2012 14:27 … I caught up with Jeff Halper, long time Israeli peace activist, director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and author of numerous books, while he was on a European speaking tour. Here is what he had to say about the …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/05/03/and-its-over/

While the fields go fallow

Palestinian Christians Against the Occupation By Philip Farah, 05/ 1/2012  6:29 am … In a recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren claimed that Christians in Israel are better off than their brethren anywhere else in the Middle East. Two Sundays ago, “60 Minutes” made clear he attempted to intimidate Bob …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/05/01/while-the-fields-go-fallow/

More devoted to ‘order’ than to justice

Justice requires action to stop subjugation of Palestinians By Desmond Tutu, Apr 30, 2012 05:41 PM … A quarter-century ago I barnstormed around the United States encouraging Americans, particularly students, to press for divestment from South Africa. Today, regrettably, the time has come for similar action to force an end to Israel’s long-standing occupation of …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/05/01/more-devoted-to-order-than-to-justice/

Coordinated, systematic racial discrimination

Christians of the Holy Land By Ben White, 26 Apr 2012 06:36 … A recent report by CBS show 60 Minutes on “Christians of the Holy Land” has received a lot of attention, not least for the embarrassing contribution by Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren. It is interesting that Israel (and its advocates) …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/04/27/coordinated-systematic-racial-discrimination/