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Israeli Criticism of Zionism and of Israel’s Treatment of the Palestinians: The Academics and Activists

By Edward C. Corrigan
Ed Corrigan holds a B.A. in History and a Master’s Degree in Political Science from the University of Western Ontario. Ed also has a Law Degree from the University of Windsor and was called to the Bar of the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1992. He has distinguished himself as [...]

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Palestinian roots of Western civilization: an interview with Basem Ra’ad

Jonathan Scott, The Electronic Intifada, 16 August 2010
Basem Ra’ad is a professor at Al-Quds University in occupied East Jerusalem. For the past two decades, he has been researching the ancient past of Palestine, much of which concerns the Western and Israeli appropriation of ancient languages and cultures, from the Canaanite alphabet to the [...]

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Is Israel singled out – and why?

By Adam Keller
Adam Keller (born 1955 in Tel Aviv-Yafo) is an Israeli peace activist who was among the founders of Gush Shalom, of which he is a spokesperson.
A long-standing supporter of Yesh Gvul, Keller has served several prison terms for refusing reserve military duty in the 1967-occupied territories.
The Other Israel – August 1, 2010
Googling for [...]

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The Zionist Imam >hey?

By SVEN BEHRISCH
The Jerusalem Post  – July 19, 2010
Opposition to Israel is an offense against Allah.
What should one think about a Muslim Imam who encourages Israeli settlers to go on building? A leader of Italian Muslims who doubts the Palestinians’ right to any part of Israel? A pupil of the Grand Mufti of [...]

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US university suspends Muslim student group for Palestine protest

Brian Napoletano, The Electronic Intifada, 14 July 2010
In response to intense political pressure by multiple pro-Zionist organizations, the administration at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) recently decided to suspend Muslim students’ right to assemble and practice their faith together on campus. Alleging that emails anonymously “leaked” to the university prove that the Muslim [...]

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The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment

by Peter Beinart
The New York Review of Books  - June 10, 2010
In 2003, several prominent Jewish philanthropists hired Republican pollster Frank Luntz to explain why American Jewish college students were not more vigorously rebutting campus criticism of Israel. In response, he unwittingly produced the most damning indictment of the organized American Jewish community that I have [...]

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‘Israel’s status worst since 70s’

By JPOST.COM STAFF
The Jerusalem Post  - July 12, 2010
Israel’s current standing in the United Nations is the worst it has been in nearly forty years, said Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Gabriela Shalev, in an interview with Army Radio on Sunday.
“Our situation in recent months can be compared to the 1970s, when Zionism was being [...]

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Book review: Victor Kattan’s legal history of the colonization of Palestine

Mazen Masri
The Electronic Intifada  – 19 June 2010
Mazen Masri is a PhD Candidate at the Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada. A longer version of this book review was first published in volume 15 of the Palestine Yearbook of International Law.
Zionism, it was proclaimed in the First Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897, [...]

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Jewish challenges to Zionism on the rise in the US

Gabriel Ash, Emily Katz Kashawi, Mich Levy, Sara Kershnar,
Gabriel Ash is an activist, writer and a core member of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN). He writes because the pen is sometimes mightier than the sword and sometimes not.
Emily Katz Kashawi is an activist, communications professional and a mother of twins.
Mich Levy is [...]

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Professor Peter Beinart*: The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment

Peter Beinart is Associate Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the City University of New York, a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, and Senior Political Writer for The Daily Beast. His new book, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, will be published in June.
The New York Review of [...]

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Joseph Massad: The language of Zionism

Al-Ahram Weekly – 7 May 2010
The reason for the ongoing “violence” in Israel and Palestine is not on account of Israeli colonialism at all but rather a direct result of mistranslation. Joseph Massad* provides an abridged lexicon of Zionist terminology

“Colonialism is peace; anti-colonialism is war.” This is the unalterable equation that successive Israeli governments [...]

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Einstein on Palestine and Zionism

Edward C, Corrigan*
The Canadian Charger  - 5  January 2010
There is some controversy over Einstein’s political views especially on the issue of Palestine and the creation of a Jewish State.
Many Zionists claim Einstein as one of their own. Einstein, however, was a pacifist, a universalist and abhorred nationalism.
The recently published book, Einstein on Israel and Zionism: His Provocative [...]

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