Oppression is not a point of view
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mazin B. Qumsiyeh | Yale Herald | January 24, 2003 In Israel, the coalition government of Labor and Likud fell temporarily. While the upcoming Israeli elections promise a split between doves and hawks, the reality is that the partnership of Labor and Likud goes back 55 years and neither party can help extricate Israel
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Edward Herman | Znet | November 25, 2002 Palestinians are “Semites,” but the word antisemitism is never applied to prejudice against them, only to Jews. The restriction on the application to Jews, and failure to use it in reference to Palestinians, continues in the face of the fact that prejudice against Jews has sharply
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Robert Fisk | The Independent | October 23, 2002 Thank God, I often say, for the Israeli press. For where else will you find the sort of courageous condemnation of Israel’s cruel and brutal treatment of the Palestinians? Where else can we read that Moshe Ya’alon, Ariel Sharon’s new chief of staff, described the
» Read more26 January 2016 W.J.T. Mitchell is editor of Critical Inquiry. One of the most notable developments at the 2016 Modern Language Association meeting in Austin, Texas could be glimpsed simply by looking at the program. There were no less than a dozen sessions devoted to the question of Palestine. Many of them were, of course, devoted to the movement known as
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Laila El-Haddad in Gaza | Aljazeera Net | 4 November 2003 At first glance, al-Siyafah may seem like nothing more than a lifeless desert worthy of just passing attention. Dry sandy hills stretch out for several kilometres in all directions, interrupted only by the occasional obstinate bush of wildflowers. Most people in Gaza, let
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom | 1 November 2003 In the Six-Day War, hundreds of Israeli soldiers were murdered while storming the Sinai desert, the West Bank and the Golan heights. In the Yom-Kippur War, more than 2000 Israeli soldiers were murdered in the defense of the conquered territories. In the 18 year long
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) JUSTICE MARCUS EINFELD | Australian Jewish News | 31 October 2003 NO-ONE in Australia has had more contact with Dr Hanan Ashrawi than I. In the 1990s, as president of Australian Legal Resources International (ALRI), a non-government corporation of judges and lawyers assisting countries in transition to democracy, I instituted a program in the
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Antony Loeweinstein | zmag | 23 October 2003 Hanan Ashrawi is currently finding herself in similar straits in Australia. The Sydney Peace Foundation, associated with the University of Sydney, recently decided to award Dr Ashrawi its annual peace prize. Previous winners have included the East Timorese leader Xanana Gusmao in 2000 and Archbishop Desmond
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Gideon Levy | Haaretz | 26 October 2003 Who told the director of Military Intelligence, Major General Aharon Ze’evi (Farkash) to declare, “Better Palestinian mothers should cry and not Jewish mothers”? Is the head of army intelligence now also to be in charge of setting Israel’s moral priorities? And what prompted the commander of
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Daniel Lazare | The Nation | 16 October 2003 Is Zionism a failed ideology? This question will strike many people as absurd on its face. Israel, after all, is a nation with an advanced standard of living, a high-tech economy and one of the most formidable militaries on earth. In a little over half
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