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
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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 One of my first elucidations of my support for the one-state solution. Originally published August 18, 2009. The current policy space includes two major options being seriously debated: the single-nation-state solution, and the Two-State solution. The latter is the one supported by most of those identified with the peace camp: two states, Israel and . . . → Read More: IsraLeft Salvage: A Too State Solution 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) 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 Activists organizing the Israeli part of the demonstrations in Sheikh Jarrah recently published a call to their friends in this important battle to come to the demos in modest clothing. The activists, well aware of how problematic this request is, not only clarified right away that “nobody is asking women to don a hijab”, . . . → Read More: Of Arabs and Women 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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