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Half a century after setting off a political earthquake from the impoverished streets of Jerusalem, the radical Mizrahi movement has been largely forgotten. A new book seeks to untangle their contested legacy.
“Israel’s Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth,” by (…)
The State of Israel v. the Jews
by Sylvain Cypel, translated by William Rodarmor.
Other Press, 352 pp., £24, October 2022, 978 1 63542 097 5
Deux peuples pour un état?: Relire l’histoire du sionisme
by Shlomo Sand.
Seuil, 256 pp., £20, January, 978 2 02 154166 3
Our Palestine (…)
Tariq Ali: Let’s start with the present, not just in the sense of the horrors being inflicted on Palestine right now, but the present as part of Palestine’s still-active past. The brutal Anglo-Zionist repression of the great Arab Revolt of 1936–39 was followed by the Nakba of 1948, the Six-Day (…)
In the aftermath of the Holocaust and the formation of Israel, Jews’ position in the Global North transformed from racialized minority into fully white members of “Judeo-Christian” society. As Gilbert Achcar shows in this essay, however, this assimilation into “super whiteness” relies on Jews (…)
Thousands of Israeli documents recently made available to the public reveal how, from the mid-1960s onward, Israel forged relations with Hindu nationalist parties in India – even though Israeli diplomats knew they were dealing with extremists driven by hatred of Muslims
Indian Prime Minister (…)
The mini-state that disappointed: Answering Reader S., who asked why ’the strongest resistance’ emerged ’from the place where Israel canceled the occupation?’
Ariel Sharon surveying the Western Negev for places to relocate evacuees from Gaza settlements, 2005.Credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO
S., who (…)
A pioneering Israeli scholar of German history, Prof. Moshe Zimmermann looks back to 1930s Europe in order to understand where Israel is headed
Photo: Zimmermann. Israel’s current government, he says, is a “kakistocracy” – meaning rule by the worst citizens. If there were rankings, Netanyahu (…)
If Al-Qaeda and ISIS were the indirect products of the policies of US imperialism, Hamas is a direct product of Israel. A glimpse into the painful history of 75 years of conflicts and confrontations between Israel and Palestinians helps one better understand the latest Hamas/Israeli fighting (…)
In seeking the historical origins of the October 7 debacle, we must go back to the decisions made by the premier a decade ago
Police face off with settlers refusing to leave a synagogue rooftop in the central Gaza Strip, August 2005.Credit: Yossi Zamir / GPO
Since the October 7 massacre, (…)
The enclave abutting Israel has been described as the world’s ‘largest open-air prison.’ Conditions have deteriorated for the population there under a 16-year blockade.
The focus on conflict in the Middle East has again returned to the Gaza Strip, with Israel’s defense minister ordering a (…)
A famous gesture kick-started hopes of peace in the Middle East. But today, the idea of a two-state solution seems further away than ever before.
On Sept. 13, 1993, the world watched as Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat shook (…)
On 13 September 1993 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization Yasir Arafat signed the Oslo Accords at a White House ceremony officiated by United States President Bill Clinton. To mark the thirtieth anniversary of this agreement, and take stock (…)
The Oslo Accords were a historic event. But nearly thirty years on, no one uses them to talk about the situation in Palestine. There is no longer any talk of the “peace process” or the “quartet”, as was the norm in the 1990s and 2000s, so far have things moved away from the hopes raised by these (…)
What would you say if the notorious racist and anti-semite prime minister of Hungary Victor Orban accused Einstein of … anti-semitism? And Hanna Arendt as well? Together with the most iconic author of Holocaust literature Primo Levi? Unimaginable and unrealistic? Not at all. On the contrary, (…)
On the 73rd anniversary of the Nakba (‘Catastrophe’), Sarah Peterson reviews the tortured history of modern Palestine.
Nakba followed the UN partition of Palestine on 29 November 1947, the war of 1947-9, the withdrawal of British troops on 14 May 1948, and the declaration of the state of (…)
Aftermath of the Deir Yassin massacre, April 9, 1948.
THE ISRAELI ELECTION on April 9, 2019 will coincide with the anniversary of the massacre of the Arab village of Deir Yassin, a turning point in the mass flight of Palestinians during the 1948 war (the Nakba, or catastrophe). According to (…)
25 years after the Oslo Accords, the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians is at a standstill. Gilbert Achcar in an interview with L’Orient-Le Jour gave some clues to understanding the turn of events since the Oslo agreements.
25 years after the Oslo Accords, the peace process (…)
The bloody events in Gaza, between Palestinian protesters and Israeli soldiers, are based on the vision of the history of the two peoples.
When is the Nakba from 1948? In the past, as most Israelis implicitly think? or in the future, as implicitly thought by many Palestinians and Arabs? The (…)
Ethan Ackelsberg makes the case, using historical and contemporary evidence, that Israel is an apartheid society, existing in defiance of international law.
THE ETHNIC cleansing of Palestine’s indigenous Arab population is well established, thanks to the work of Palestinian scholars such as (…)
For seventy years, Israeli violence has permeated every aspect of Palestinians’ lives. Once again, Palestinians are resisting.
On May 14,1948, seventy years ago, Israel issued its “declaration of independence.” Since then, every May 15 has been Nakba Day, when Palestinians mark the ethnic (…)
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