Thursday, May 24th 2012
Norman G. Finkelstein: ‘This Time we went too far’ - Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion. OR Books, New York, 2010 (www.orbooks.com)
Ever since disregarding Noam Chomsky’s warning more than 30 years ago that “expos[ing] the American intellectual community as a bunch of frauds” would lead to his destruction, Norman Finkelstein has continued to court [...]
A European country that scapegoats a Semitic people, persecutes defenders of human rights by stripping them of employment, and denies freedom of speech to Jews: surely a description of Germany during the Third Reich?
Yes, but unfortunately also a description of Germany at the outset of the 21st century.
In the wake of German Chancellor Merkel’s craven speech [...]
Gilbert Achcar: Why Holocaust Denial Is on the Rise in the Arab World | Mediapart Magazine
An interview with Gilbert Achcar about his soon to be published book Arabs and the Holocaust. ILR interviewed Professor Achcar in January 09, during the conflict in Gaza. In this most recent interview he explains that anti-semitism is not implicit [...]
As a classical musician involved in pro-Palestinian activism, I frequently encounter the assumption that I am an unconditional admirer of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra (WEDO). My reservations on this score tend to produce shocked disapproval: How could I not enthuse about such an idealistic project, particularly since it was co-founded by the late Edward Said, [...]
Raymond Deane | Shlomo Sand’s The Invention of the Jewish People
Irish composer and political activist Raymond Deane reviews Shlomo Sand’s The Invention of the Jewish People
In 1967 the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish published his poem “A Soldier Dreaming of White Lilies,” only to be accused of “collaboration with the Zionist enemy” for his sympathetic [...]
Political cartoonist Khalil Bendib interviews Israeli Professor Shlomo Sand about his book The Invention of the Jewish People.
Sand also writes on the topic in Le Monde Diplomatique:
“Sixty years after its foundation, Israel refuses to accept that it should exist for the sake of its citizens. For almost a quarter of the population, who [...]
John Greyson’s entirely reasonable decision to protest the Toronto International Film Festival’s City-to-City spotlight on Tel-Aviv (and the supporting letter from a group of activists, artists and intellectuals such as Naomi Klein, Jane Fonda and Slavoj Zizek) has been predictably distorted and misrepresented by Israel’s backers. Greyson cites the war in Gaza (for which both [...]
Gilbert Achcar lived in Lebanon for many years. He is now Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. He is the author of many books analysing politics and society in the Middle East from a Left perspective, including The Clash of Barbarisms, Eastern Cauldron, The 33-Day War and Perilous Power [...]
Last week, in interview with a More 4 journalist, Mark Regev, one of Ehud Olmert’s spokespeople, admitted that Israel knew and had officially recorded the fact that Hamas had not broken the ceasefire between the two regions and, further, that the Israelis were also aware that Hamas had made attempts to prevent other, small groups [...]
