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The following text was written by Maital Rozenboim on August 1, 2009, shortly after the shooting at the Tel-Aviv LGBT “Bar-Noar”. It is republished here, as part of my IsraLeft Slavage project, with her permission. Something happened in Tel-Aviv tonight, a milestone in the delicate relationship between minority and majority, left and right, and . . . → Read More: IsraLeft Salvage/Guest Post: A Different Kind of Terror 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 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 |
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