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Gilad Atzmon - “The Wandering Who?”

By Gilad Atzmon • Sep 2nd, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Education, Gilad Atzmon, Gilad's Choice, Israel, Newswire, Our Authors, Palestine, Religion, Zionism

Tel Aviv University historian, Professor Shlomo Sand, opens his remarkable study of Jewish nationalism quoting Karl W. Deutsch:
A nation is a group of people united by a common mistake regarding its origin and a collective hostility towards its neighbours” [1]
As simple or even simplistic as it may sound, the quote above eloquently summarises the figment of [...]



Iqbal Tamimi - The Zionists Gave God a Bad Name

By Iqbal Tamimi • Jul 27th, 2008 • Category: Features, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

Part one of a report: Some people do not know much about the suffering of Palestinians. Most Israelis suggested over and over again that they have the right to live in Palestine and kick its people out. The Jewish people came from all over the world without any connection to Palestine but a promise under [...]



The Jewish Experience - by Gilad Atzmon

By Gilad Atzmon • Jun 10th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Gilad Atzmon, Gilad's Choice, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Our Authors, Palestine, Religion, War, Zionism

For more than half a century, those who have been trying to combat the forces that are behind the Israeli paradigm have been identifying Israeli policies and practice with Zionism and Zionist Ideology. I am afraid to say that they were wrong all the way along. Indeed, Zionism’s project dictates the plunder of Palestine in [...]



Swindler’s List

By Gilad Atzmon • Apr 11th, 2008 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Gilad's Choice, Religion, Zionism

It is a common trend amongst rabid Zionists and notorious Islamophobes to quote some isolated and mistranslated verses from the Qur’an for the purpose of collectively libeling Muslims and presenting Islam as a regressive and violent belief system.
Needless to say, so far, such repetitive attempts have been found futile if not actually counter-effective. Not a [...]