By MOIRA SCHNEIDER / JTA The Jerusalem Post Wed, Nov 2, 2011 A conference on apartheid imparts painful episodes from the country’s past, and shows how old fault lines still divide the Jewish community. CAPE TOWN – When anti-apartheid activist Lorna Levy first became involved in politics as a student in the [...]
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Video: Gilad Atzmon’s The Wandering Who?
Atzmon speaks about The Wandering Who?Israel, Zionism Jewishness, Jewish identity politics, tribalism and so on. A film by Tali Atzmon see here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFjejrGxFY4&feature=youtu.be
Mosque in northern Israel in ‘price tag’ arson attack
BBC 3 October 2011 Last updated at 10:52 GMT A mosque in northernIsraelhas been torched and sprayed with graffiti, in a suspected attack by Jewish extremists. Hundreds of residents from thevillageofTuba-Zangariyamarched in protest against the attack, and there were reports of clashes with the police. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said he [...]
Jewish Opinion being alienated by Israeli Policies, Not by any “Delegitimization” Campaign
by Allan C. Brownfeld Allan C. Brownfeld is a syndicated columnist and associate editor of the Lincoln Review , a journal published by the Lincoln Institute for Research and Education , and editor of Issues , the quarterly journal of the American Council for Judaism . He gets featured on Media Monitors Network (MMN) with [...]
Voices for Peace: “We Are Young Jews, and We Get to Decide What That Means”
by Abby Zimet see video and pic here: http://www.commondreams.org/further/2011/09/28-0 Common Dreams 09.28.11 – 12:21 PM Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown, marking the start of the Jewish New Year, the day of Judgment. In its honor, and with the issue of Palestinian statehood roiling the U.N., video and commentary from the young Jewish [...]
9 /11 and the destruction of the shared understanding of antisemitism
Antony Lerman, Antony Lerman is the former Director of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research and founding editor of Antisemitism World Report, published yearly from 1992-1998. He blogs at http://antonylerman.com/ openDemocracy 14 September 2011 The links between the Israeli far right and Islamophobic groups in Europe follow a certain inexorable logic of the [...]
Hamas official slams group’s opposition to statehood bid
By MOHAMMED MAR’I Arab News September 18, 2011 RAMALLAH: A senior Hamas official on Sunday criticized his movement for opposing the Palestinian statehood bid at the United Nations. Ahmed Yousef, deputy foreign minister in the government of Ismail Haniyeh, also criticized his movement for barring popular activities in support of the move [...]
Video: ‘Defamation’
‘Hashmatsa’ (‘Defamation’) by Israeli director Yoav Shamir dares to attack one of the sacred cows of Israel and of the Jewish people thinking – how it reacts to antisemitism around the world, how it looks at the evil of the Holocaust, and how young generations are being educated in Israel with respect to these painful [...]
