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Posts Tagged ‘Jewish Identity’

Zahir Ebrahim – Response to John Kaminski's 'Why no Jewish writer can be believed'

By Guest Post • Mar 1st, 2010 • Category: Analysis, Features, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Ideas and Projects, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Religion, Zionism

Often times, as G. Edward Griffin also puts it, the sins of the 'left' are uncovered by their enemies on the 'right', and vice versa. The in-fighting among hegemonic pigs often betrays their criminal secrets. For an astute non-bigoted seeker of truth and justice for all, that's simply the low hanging fruits of the rotten tree to be plucked for forensic analysis.



Let My Kafka Go! Israel’s Ridiculous Ownership Claims

By Mary Rizzo • Dec 9th, 2009 • Category: Biography, Culture and Heritage, Features, Israel, Mary's Choice, Newswire, Zionism

WRITTEN BY MARY RIZZO
“Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested.” 
I doubt that anyone has read that devastating incipit from Kafka’s “The Trial” without feeling a bolt of emotion. In its naked simplicity, crude force and powerful arrangement, we see facets [...]



Sa'id Barghouti – Palestinian History and Identity in Israeli Schools

By Guest Post • Nov 17th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Education, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

Palestinian students are inculcated with the idea that Jews are the original and oldest inhabitants of the land and the most attached to it. Raising Arab-Palestinian students on this idea, while not providing adequate cultural and historical knowledge to challenge it, encourages alienation from their homeland.

Feelings of alienation will later on undermine the capacity of students to tackle oppressive policies, especially in matters of land and social culture, and transform them into easy prey for the dominant Israeli political discourse which can be summarized as follows: this is the land of the Jewish people. We returned to our rightful historic homeland and built it up. You Arab-Palestinians are just passers-by, strangers to this land, and a source of annoyance to our presence. This is the discourse underlying Israeli political demands for the recognition of Israel as a Jewish state.



Of Sabras & Rappers: Cultural Appropriation & Orientalism in Invincible's "People Not Places"

By Guest Post • Sep 1st, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Culture and Heritage, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Religion, Zionism

WRITTEN BY Michelle J. Kinnucan
Author's note: This article was started and mostly completed in December 2008. Then the Israeli massacre in Gaza intervened, followed by an intensification of organizing efforts for the Batsheva Dance Company protests After that, it gathered dust in the Drafts folder while I moved cross-country. An extended, remix version of "People [...]



Yousef Abudayyeh – All Be Aware

By Yousef Abudayyeh • Mar 7th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Culture and Heritage, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

The surge in the "Pro-Palestinian" activities in the United States after the Zionist massacre in the Gaza Strip is at least suspicious if not alarming. I am not saying this because I do not want the support for our people to be the norm in this country, but because I see who is riding this [...]



Is an Israeli Jewish sense of victimization perpetuating the conflict with Palestinians?

By Guest Post • Jan 31st, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Features, Israel, Mary's Choice, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, War, Zionism

By Akiva Eldar 
A new study of Jewish Israelis shows that most accept the 'official version' of the history of the conflict with the Palestinians. Is it any wonder, then, that the same public also buys the establishment explanation of the operation in Gaza?
A pioneering research study dealing with Israeli Jews' memory of the conflict with [...]



Hear, O Israel!!

By Guest Post • Jan 13th, 2009 • Category: Children's Corner, Human Rights, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, War, Zionism

WRITTEN BY Stefano Sarfati Nahmad  
 
Hear, Hear O Israel!
You have massacred infants and blamed their parents for it
saying that they used them as shields. I can think of nothing,
nothing more disgraceful.
Only in the space of a generation, in the name of that suffering,
you have caused suffering to others: you have hermetically sealed them
in a territory, and [...]



Avrum Burg: Can the Jewish People Survive Without an Enemy?

By Guest Post • Jan 6th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Grassroots Activism, Interviews, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, War, Zionism

Interview By Tony Karon January 1, 2009 TIME
Avrum Burg is the scion of one of Israel's founding families — his father was the deputy speaker of the first Knesset, and Burg himself later became speaker of the legislature, and a member of Israel's cabinet. His position at the heart of the Israeli establishment makes all [...]



Mohamed Khodr – How Zionists Occupy Two Nations: America and Palestine

By Mohamed Khodr • Dec 3rd, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

From America’s “Jewish Triangle” to Iraqi’s “Sunni Triangle
Government Job Notice:  No Gentiles Need Apply 

 
“The Modern Age is the Jewish Age, and the twentieth century, in particular, is the Jewish Century.”
–Yuri Slezkine, Professor of History at University of California, Berkeley, “The Jewish Century”; Princeton University Press (Russian Jewish immigrant to the U.S.) 
 
No, America, there is no [...]