13+ hour, 34+ min ago   (959+ words) CounterPunch.org On 2 August, the Russian-Israeli historian Artyom Kirpichenok landed in Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv. He disembarked from a flight from Yerevan (Armenia) and expected to be in Israel for a conference. Kirpichenok’s friends lost contact with him…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1838+ words) In the fall of 2003, Alexander Cockburn and I were in Los Angeles for a long weekend shortly after our book, The Politics of Antisemitism, came out. Few bookstores would put it on their shelves, not even the now shuttered Midnight…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (233+ words) Zeev Jabotinsky Zionist Congress – Public Domain These alliances were not anomalies. They reflected the core logic of a settler-colonial project that prioritized territorial conquest and state-building over morality and solidarity with other oppressed peoples. That same logic drives Israel today....

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (233+ words) Image by Levi Meir Clancy. So, I will say it again, once more with feeling, this is not a nation the world can afford to allow to exist. A single state(less) solution is the only solution. The planet simply…...

5+ mon, 6+ day ago   (846+ words) The Colossus, Francisco Goya When the vast majority of the Israeli citizenry have willingly clamored onboard the Zionist Death Juggernaut — designed to kill and destroy anything in its path — is it a sin against the soul to hope it crashes…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (403+ words) “So, God gave that land to his people, the Jews, or he didn’t,” Carlson said. “You’re saying he did. What does that mean? Does Israel have the right to that land? Because you’re appealing to Genesis. You’re saying that’s the…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (881+ words) CounterPunch.org Held between January 26 and 27 at Jerusalem’s International Convention Center and called Generation Truth, the second international conference on combating antisemitism was a picture of cracking contradictions. Organised by Israel’s Minister for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, Amichai Chikli,…...

8+ mon, 6+ day ago   (996+ words) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rarely passes an opportunity to comment upon the way Jews in other countries are treated. While the manic Bondi Beach gunmen – Fair Use Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rarely passes an opportunity to comment upon…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago   (771+ words) On Yom Kippur, two British Jews were killed at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Manchester, during a cruel, antisemitic act of violence. One of them was accidentally shot by police. Later that week, while discussing antisemitism at the…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago   (165+ words) Daniel Falcone: Could you explain how you structured the book in terms of the chapters and how themes like human rights, social movements, and identity construction are perhaps woven together? In Chapter 1, I focus on the Popular Front of the…...