Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by MALIK Kenan
The story of Jewish suffering means there is a moral necessity to fight oppression everywhere
William Zuckerman was born in 1885 in the Pale of Settlement, that part of the Russian empire to which Jews were largely confined, a place of poverty and pogroms. His family managed to escape, (…)
, by FINKEL David
Note by the author: The following notes are a very sketchy primer. It is not a detailed historical analysis nor a discussion of the Palestinian liberation struggle. The readings cited at the end provide some background and insight on these critical subjects.
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1) Zionism is (…)
, by SALAM Maya
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz’s devotion to social activism began when she was 17. It was 1963, and with the civil rights movement gathering strength she became involved with the Harlem Education Project, an effort to educate young people on black history and give them access to cultural institutions (…)
, by FINKEL David
Review: The Wandering Who? A Study of Jewish Identity Politics. By Gilad Atzmon. Zero Books, 2011, 202 pages, $14.95 paperback.
GILAD ATZMON IS one hell of a jazz musician, justly counted among the best global practitioners of the art of bop and post-bop. In fact, the dual status of modern (…)
, by The Economist
In Ishmael’s House: A History of Jews in Muslim Lands. By Martin Gilbert. Yale University Press; 320 pages; £25 and $35. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives. By Gilbert Achcar. Metropolitan Books; 400 pages; $30. Saqi; £25. Buy from (…)
, by SULEHRIA Farooq
Only 6,300 Arabs served in German military while hundreds of thousands (including 9,000 Palestinians) of them fought in the Allied ranks. Of the 97,000 French causalities from Tunisian campaign to German surrender, 52 percent were Muslims. Albania was the only country in Europe to come out of (…)
, by ALI Tariq
On The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives, by Gilbert Achcar.
“Since the fourth century after Christ,” wrote the late Raul Hillberg in his masterwork, The Destruction of the European Jews, “there have been three anti-Jewish policies: conversion, expulsion, and (…)
, by FINKEL David
Review: The Invention of the Jewish People. By Shlomo Sand. Verso, 2009, translation by Yael Lotan, 313 pages + index.. $16.95 paperback.
SO WHERE DID “the Jewish people” come from anyway? Was there an Exodus from Egypt, an Empire of David and Solomon, an Exile ending in a triumphant Return (…)
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