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Snapshot into the foundation of Beinart’s “democratic Israel” 2 Apr 2012 | 11:34 am
P eter Beinart’s new book, The Crisis of Zionism, tries hard—really, really hard—to distinguish between what he calls “non-democratic Israel”, i.e. the occupation and settlements, and “democratic Isra...
The ethnic cleansing of Palestine and the burden of proof among “liberal Zionists” 3 Dec 2011 | 06:41 am
A after an overly long hiatus from Hybrid States due to extreme time pressure in other fields of my life, I read Gershom Gorenberg’s excerpt from his new book The Unmaking of Israel, which deals, iron...
Facing domestic political crisis, Israel’s answer is always colonize and attack Palestine 5 Aug 2011 | 03:14 am
F acing the biggest domestic political crisis since he took office (in the form of of the #j14 protests), Netanyahu responds in the following, all-too-predictable ways: Trying to assassinate Nasralla...
Now Jeffrey Goldberg provides a perfect argument for strident criticism of Israel 24 Jun 2011 | 08:37 am
H ow many times have I heard Israelis try to shut down their critics with an argument that preserves for Israelis the right to criticize Israel? The argument is of the following general form: “until y...
J.J. Goldberg’s perfect argument for cultural boycott of Israel 23 Jun 2011 | 09:55 am
A series of recent discussions in my life (with very well intentioned people) have focused on whether cultural boycott of Israel is perhaps a bit too extreme of a position. Doesn’t it just run the ris...
Arabs live better in Israel than anywhere else, except not really 26 May 2011 | 04:43 am
I just watched Max Blumenthal’s excellent set of recorded interviews and comments from participants at AIPAC 2011. As a Jew—nay, as a human being—it is heart-wrenching to watch other ostensibly senti...
Israel’s “Independence Day” celebrated literally on top of a demolished Palestine 12 May 2011 | 03:25 am
D o you not find it grotesque that Israelis celebrate “Independence Day” in artificial parks built by the Jewish National Fund on the ruins of Palestinian villages? For example, Canada Park (cited in...
Reconsidering Goldstone’s reconsideration 3 Apr 2011 | 08:35 am
I srael is “vindicated”, claims FM Lieberman about Richard Goldstone’s latest op-ed in the Washington Post, adding that “we knew the truth and we had no doubt it would eventually come out.” Netanyahu...
Obsessive demography, racism, and a history of apartheid thought 23 Mar 2011 | 05:07 am
A routine rebuttal to the argument that Israel is an apartheid state is to focus on the conditions of the Palestinian citizens of Israel. Israel’s defenders allege, for example, that Palestinians with...
Incitement: the second most meaningless and manipulated word 15 Mar 2011 | 03:35 am
W ell, the second most meaningless word after ‘terrorism’, of course, as Glenn Greenwald so expressively pointed out last year. Clearly, terrorism means nothing more than the violence your enemies co...
