Oppression is not a point of view
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Adi Ophir | Gush Shalom | Not published (see Gush Shalom Comment) Comment in Circular from Gush Shalom (15 January 2004): “Genocide Hides Behind Expulsion” – a response by Philosophy Professor Adi Ophir (Hebrew & English). Ophir offered it to Ha’aretz. It includes a remark against Ha’aretz allowing Morris’ cynicism on its pages. It
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Various (Responses to Benny Morris) | Ha’aretz Daily | 16 January 2003 Last week’s interview with historian Benny Morris (“Survival of the fittest” by Ari Shavit, Haaretz Magazine, January 9, 2004) has generated a deluge of readers’ responses. Here are some selected comments: Squaring the Circle Benny Morris should be congratulated for his candor
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jonathan Spyer | The Guardian | 14 January 2004 Israeli right-of-centre politics is today turned in on itself. The reason for this derives from the prominence in recent weeks given to proposals for unilateral disengagement by Israel from the Gaza Strip and the greater part of the West Bank, in the event of the
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Benny Morris | The Guardian | 14 January 2004 In 1948, thousands of Palestinians fled their homes in what is now Israel, and became refugees. Both sides have blamed each other ever since. But new documents show neither is entirely innocent, argues Benny Morris First, there were the faces, the old Palestinian women huddled
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Adi Ophir | Voices of Civil Rights | January 2004 Response to an interview with Benny Morris in the Ha’aretz supplement, Jan. 9, 2004 At some point in the interview, when the reader might think that Benny Morris has already said the most terrible things, he brings up, in passing, the extermination of the
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Smadar Lavie | Anthropology News | OCTOBER 2003 On December 26, 2001, Ariyeh Caspi exhorted in Israel’s highbrow Ha’aretz Weekly that only 8.8% of those holding full professor’s rank in Israeli universities were women. In his article “Search for the Woman,” the journalist nonetheless neglected to mention that all these women pro- fessors are
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ari Shavit | Ha’aretz Daily | 9 January 2004 Benny Morris says he was always a Zionist. People were mistaken when they labeled him a post-Zionist, when they thought that his historical study on the birth of the Palestinian refugee problem was intended to undercut the Zionist enterprise. Nonsense, Morris says, that’s completely unfounded.
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Relly Sa’ar | Ha’aretz | 27 November 2003 There’s no politically correct spin to put on it, and the facts speak for themselves: As soon as Israel’s top university administrators noticed that the big winners from admissions policy changes were not Jewish youngsters from low-income towns, but rather Arabs, they reverted back to the
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