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It’s hard for me to put into words how angry I am with the recent decision of the ministerial committee for legislation to support bills intended to prevent foreign funding of left-wing civil society in Israel. When they teach you of the development of parties in Political Science 101, you learn how parties started . . . → Read More: Cartel Government This concludes my IsraLeft Salvage project, with my first ever post that was based on my academic work – work that was presented at the Association for Israel Studies conference in 2010, and is now going through the arduous process of publication (hopefully). This is me mulling over some ideas by taking what is . . . → Read More: IsraLeft Salvage: Magnanimity: On The Virtues of Ze’ev Jabotinsky The last two of my posts on IsraLeft are also the two I am most proud of. It’s not that they’re perfect, or even that I still fully agree with what I said, but they reflect a sentiment I had and still have, and draw out my vision (which is in no way a . . . → Read More: IsraLeft Salvage: A pipe-dream, maybe, but not a nightmare I’ve returned from a trip with my family to the southern shores of Georgian Bay. If you want a tip on some excellent restaurants in the Owen Sound/Meaford area, let me know! – Completely unrelated: Here’s a segment from a book I’ve read recently, The Emergence of Binational Israel, edited by Ilan Peleg and . . . → Read More: How Israel Turning into a De Facto but not De Jure Binational State Will Impact It (1989) Sadly, we have decided to shut down IsraLeft due to lack of activity – some of us opened our independent English blogs (e.g.), while others simply didn’t feel like writing for a very long time (a more formal announcement will be posted on the blog itself soon). I myself wrote five posts over the . . . → Read More: IsraLeft salvage: …and who is left Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) is an on-going campaign by some Palestinian and pro-Palestinian groups, calling for – well – boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel to nudge it towards the end of occupation and discrimination of Palestinians both within and beyond the green line. It has garnered some support internationally, and even among . . . → Read More: Why I oppose BDS I am glad to host this guest post by Hanna Beit Halachmi I walked up this week into the painful knowledge that nothing has really changed in the Israeli anti-occupation activism in the last 28 years of my involvement. As in the past, now as before, women’s human rights are secondary to the Palestinians . . . → Read More: Genderized hidden occupation in anti-occupation protests / Hanna Beit Halachmi One of the debates raging currently in Israel has to do with a new bill dealing with the question of conversion into Judaism and its recognition by the state. One of the aspects of the bill is that Reform Judaism conversion will not longer be accepted by the state for the purposes of the . . . → Read More: Israel Has No Religious Problems That Are Not Civic Problems: On the Conversion Debate I sometimes enjoy tormenting myself by reading the local Hebrew newspaper, Shalom Toronto. Today, while perusing it I ran across an article describing the fund-raising delegation that recently arrived in Canada on behalf of the ironically named The Israel Independence Fund (I guess economic independence isn’t on their agenda). The organization, a sort of . . . → Read More: Israeli Vigilantes I’ve recently read Lene Hansen’s Security As Practice. The book offers a methodological framework for post-structuralist discourse analysis.1 I must admit the book got me quite excited, in as much as one may use terms like “excitement” when discussing methodology, and I’m now considering revising (slightly) the goals of my thesis so that I . . . → Read More: There Are No Innocents in Gaza |
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