Between Dome of the Rock and a Hard Place
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Where to begin? Regular readers of this blog will undoubtedly know about the severe problem of Israeli racism against Arabs in general and Palestinians in particular. But this story leaves even me incredulous.
After Ali Abunimah posted a wonderfully sarcastic comment to his Twitter feed (@avinunu) about how much settlers love to [...]
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File this under profiles in Israeli racism, part 279.
The Israeli women’s organization, Women to Women, published a report in December 2008 about the widespread use of Depo Provera in the Ethiopian community. Ethiopians comprise just two percent of Israel’s population, yet account for 57% of users of the birth control drug. [...]
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Apartheid is finally get the attention is deserves. Joining the longstanding arguments posed by Palestinians, prominent Jews (e.g. retired Judge Boaz Okon) and Israeli politicians (e.g. former PM Olmert) have begun to use the term to describe the system of institutionalized discrimination that exists in Israel/Palestine. This is a welcome development in the [...]
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Prejudice against Muslims is one of the few remaining “legitimate” forms of racism in the sense it is widely accepted in public in the western world. To cite just one example, GOP Congresspeople can call for all Muslim visa holders in the US to be deported without even sparking a substantive conversation on the [...]
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I am a severe critic of many Israeli policies. But a part of me always held on to those aspects of Israel that remained principled and democratic. Important interventions by Israel’s High Court against the use of human shields, against the early planned routes of the segregation wall, the injunction to desegregate the [...]
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We often hear about Israeli discrimination against its Arab citizens and against Palestinians under occupation. It is in fact “common knowledge”, according to Judge Yuval Shadmi.
One aspect of discrimination that we don’t often hear about is Israel’s formal system of discrimination against Jews. What do I mean? Israel is not [...]
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Somewhere in my mind, I envisioned this blog slowly gathering incontrovertible evidence that Israel was founded on the contradiction of ethnically exclusive “democracy” in a land populated by over one million ethnic outsiders. Then, I intended to show with patient effort how so many features of the violent patterns we see in Israel today [...]
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J Street, the new Jewish lobbying group in the US, claims it is “pro-Israel, pro-peace.” Put aside for a moment definitional issues about what “pro-Israel” means exactly (Is it pro-Jewish ethnocracy? Is it democracy for all Israeli citizens?). Also put aside what “pro-peace” means in the context of a two-state agenda that [...]
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If you want to understand better the more paranoid and totalitarian aspects of Israeli and Jewish thinking, the Jerusalem Post contains a shining example today, written by Harvey Schwartz, chairman of the American Israeli Action Coalition (AIAC), “an organization that seeks to represent the 250,000 Americans living in Israel”.
Most American-Israelis I have spoken [...]
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This blog should have started on December 28th, 2008, the day the revoltingly named Operation Cast Lead began.
I had observed with a growing sense of horror the drumbeat for war in Israeli society. It reminded me of neoconservative hysteria in the run-up to America’s most recent war on Iraq. I had read with alarm the [...]
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