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اليهودي الجيد: سياسات الهوية في التراث المؤسساتي الأمريكي اليهودي
![[أولاد الصف الثالث يرسمون العلم الإسرائيلي. مصدر الصورة كاتبة المقال]](/content_images/3/sm_goodjes.jpg "[أولاد الصف الثالث يرسمون العلم الإسرائيلي. مصدر الصورة كاتبة المقال]")
من هو اليهودي "الجيد" في التراث الأمريكي المعاصر؟ ما هي العلاقة بين الصهيونية وبين الهوية اليهودية؟ كيف يتعامل اليهود المعادون للصهيونية، أو يقاومون، سوء استخدام إيمانهم في الفكر الصهيوني؟ وهل يمكن للإجابات عن هذه الأسئلة أن تحقق تطوراً في قضية العدالة في إسرائيل وفلسطين؟ يبدو أن الصهاينة يكسبون معركة السيطرة على سياسة الهوية اليهودية في الولايات المتحدة. وكنتيجة لهذا، فإن النقاش العام حول ما الذي يصنع يهودياً "جيداً" أو "سيئاً" يجبر بعض التقدميين من اليهود المعادين للصهيونية، وبضمنهم أنا، على أن نعبر عن معارضتنا للسياسة الإسرائيلية كموقف نابع من فهمنا للديانة اليهودية. بالنسبة للبعض، يشكل النص المقدس والإيمان الأسس لمعارضتهم ...
Keep Reading »The Struggle for Palestinian Rights is Incompatible with Any Form of Racism or Bigotry: A Statement by Palestinians
![[Crop of image of Palestinian flag, held by a protester in Ramallah. Image by Tony Kane.]](/content_images/3/sm_8062729378_95ba8ea38b_c.jpg "[Crop of image of Palestinian flag, held by a protester in Ramallah. Image by Tony Kane.]")
[The following statement was originally published on 12 October 2012 in Electronic Intifada.] We the undersigned, as Palestinians living in historic Palestine and the diaspora, in the spirit of past statements, and in light of recent controversies, write to reaffirm a key principle of our movement for freedom, justice, and equality: The struggle for our inalienable rights is one opposed to all forms of racism and bigotry, including, but not limited to, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Zionism, and other forms of bigotry directed at anyone, and in particular people of color and indigenous peoples everywhere. We oppose the cynical and baseless use of the term anti-Semitism ...
Keep Reading »On Cartoon Journalism: An Interview with Joe Sacco
![[Crop of image of cartoonist Joe Sacco. Image from video below.]](/content_images/3/sm_ScreenShot2012-10-10at2.58.48PM.png "[Crop of image of cartoonist Joe Sacco. Image from video below.]")
Joe Sacco, a comic artist, journalist, author, and illustrator, who has published works focusing on the Middle East is in conversation with historian Zachary Lockman, a professor in NYU’s Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. The interview is available at NYU Primary Sources, along with other interviews with Sacco and Lockman on the following topics: "On Documents and Footnotes," "On Historical Memory," "On Objectivity and Truth," and "Why Palestine?"
Keep Reading »On the 2012 National Students for Justice in Palestine Conference
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A little over a year ago today, hundreds of students from dozens of colleges and universities arrived at Columbia University to participate in the 2011 National Students for Justice in Palestine Conference. The purpose of the conference was to reinvigorate a national student Palestine solidarity movement by providing a space for student activists to coordinate, organize, and develop politically. The energy at the conference was palpable. Students that had been working together for months over the internet finally had the opportunity to build with one another in person. The workshops were packed as activists from all over the country learned from one another’s ...
Keep Reading »“Good Jews”: Identity Politics in American Jewish Institutional Culture
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What constitutes a “good” Jew in contemporary American culture? What is the relationship between Zionism and Jewish identity? How do anti-Zionist Jews navigate or oppose the exploitation of their faith in Zionist discourse? And how can responses to these questions advance the cause for justice in Israel and Palestine? Zionists appear to be winning the battle for control over Jewish identity politics in the United States. As a result, the mainstream conversation over what makes a “good” or a “bad” Jew compels some progressive, anti-Zionist Jews, including myself, to articulate their opposition to Israeli policy as a position rooted in their understanding of Judaism. For ...
Keep Reading »The US on Trial in NY: The Russell Tribunal on Palestine
![[President Barack Obama talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the South Lawn of the White House. Image by Peter Souza. From Wikimedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_Barack_and_Bibi.jpg "[President Barack Obama talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the South Lawn of the White House. Image by Peter Souza. From Wikimedia Commons.]")
Last week at the UN General Assembly, Barack Obama, President of the world's most powerful country, exalted the United Nations and the ideals upon which it was built. Namely, that "people can resolve their differences peacefully, that diplomacy can take the place of war; and that in an interdependent world, all of us have a stake in working towards greater opportunity and security for our citizens." Yet, as global superpower and a veto-holding member of the UN Security Council, the United States has perpetuated one of the most significant and enduring conflicts of the 20th century. By shielding Israel from accountability and by providing it ...
Keep Reading »Israel's Hypocrisy on a Nuclear Middle East
![[Graffiti image of Benjamin Netanyahu. Image by Abode of Chaos/Flickr.]](/content_images/3/sm_netanyahugraffitischmelz.jpg "[Graffiti image of Benjamin Netanyahu. Image by Abode of Chaos/Flickr.]")
When world leaders packed their bags and headed home last week, there was one lingering memory of the General Assembly’s high-level debate: Benjamin Netanyahu’s dramatic presentation of a cartoonish nuclear red line, which hit the front pages of most mainstream newspapers in the United States. The Israeli prime minister warned Iran against crossing that red line even though the Jewish state itself had crossed it when it went nuclear many moons ago. As Mouin Rabbani, contributing editor to the Middle East Report, told IPS, “The real absurdity of Netanyahu lecturing the world about nuclear weapons was precisely that – an Israeli leader lecturing the world about the ...
Keep Reading »Palestine Conditions "More Brutal" Than in U.S. South of 50 Years Ago, Says Author Alice Walker (Interview Transcript)
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Alice Walker has been a longtime advocate for the rights of Palestinians. Last summer, she was one of the activists on the U.S. ship that attempted to sail to Gaza as part of the Freedom Flotilla aimed at challenging Israel’s embargo of the Gaza Strip. Alice Walker also serves on the jury of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine, an international people’s tribunal created in 2009 to bring attention to the responsibility other states bear for Israel’s violations of international law. Walker describes her upbringing in the segregated South, then goes on to discuss today’s segregation in the Occupied Territories. "The unfairness of it is so much like the South. It’s so ...
Keep Reading »هل كان الربيع العربي جديراً بذلك كله؟: غطرسة السلطة التي تذهب بالعقل
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إنها البداية فحسب كنا على وشك ركوب الطائرة من واشنطن إلى إسطنبول، عندما ظهرت هذه الصورة على الشاشة عند البوابة: عنوان على قناة سي إن إن: "هل كان الربيع العربي جديرا بذلك العناء كله ؟" اعتاد المرء، عموماً، أن يرى ويسمع تعليقات "خاصة" حول المنطقة في وسائل الإعلام الرئيسية. ولكن، بين الفينة والأخرى، يطل برأسه علينا أمر شديد الإثارة، يبعث فينا الدهشة. ولعل هذا العنوان واحد من تلك التقارير، التي باتت تعبّر عن المزاج الغالب لما تقدمه ليس فقط الـ سي إن إن، ولكن معظم القنوات الرئيسية الأخرى، بعد ردود الفعل العنيفة على الفيلم المسئ لنبي الإسلام. لا شك أن الفيلم كان مهيناً وبائساً، وأن ردود الأفعال العنيفة والقتل الذي نتج عنها كانت مثيرة للغضب وتبعث على ...
Keep Reading »The Baghdad Campus of the School of the Americas
![[Maliki at the inauguration of the al-Nahrain Center. Image from nsa.gov.ir.]](/content_images/3/sm_maliki.jpg "[Maliki at the inauguration of the al-Nahrain Center. Image from nsa.gov.ir.]")
President Obama continues to tout the withdrawal of troops from Iraq on the campaign trail as one of his foreign policy accomplishments. The other being the extrajudicial assassination of Osama bin Laden. But not all American troops are out of Iraq. Some have stayed behind to “help out” and they operate under the civilian umbrella of the gargantuan US Embassy in Baghdad. The catastrophic failure of reconstruction projects due to fraud and corruption and the disappearance of tens of billions of dollars in and from Iraq have been documented by journalists and investigated by Congress. But in all fairness, one should never overlook the success stories no matter how minor. ...
Keep Reading »California's Largest Student Union Votes to Condemn Attempts at Silencing Dissent
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[The following statement was issued by the University of California Student Association on 15 September 2012.] The University of California Student Association, which represents hundreds of thousands of students at all ten UC campuses, passed a resolution today condemning recent attempts to censure boycott and divestment efforts by Palestinian human rights activists on campus, and demanding that the UC stop profiting from Israel’s human rights violations. The motion passed without opposition by a vote of twelve to zero (two abstensions). The resolution follows a recent motion passed by the California Assembly, HR-35. While ostensibly aimed at protecting Jewish ...
Keep Reading »An Open Letter From California Scholars for Academic Freedom to the 66 Co-authors of California House Resolution 35
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[Coauthors of HR 35: California Assembly Members Linda Haldeman, Bonnie Lowenthal and: Achadjian, Beall, Block, Blumenfield, Butler, Cook, Fong, Furutani, Galgiani, Gatto, Gordon, Hagman, Mansoor, Miller, Monning, Portantino, and Williams, Alejo, Allen, Atkins, Bill Berryhill, Bonilla, Brownley, Buchanan, Charles Calderon, Campos, Carter, Cedillo, Chesbro, Conway, Davis, Dickinson, Donnelly, Eng, Feuer, Fletcher, Fuentes, Beth Gaines, Garrick, Gorell, Harkey, Hayashi, Roger Hernández, Hueso, Huffman, Jeffries, Jones, Lara, Ma, Mendoza, Mitchell, Morrell, Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Perea, John A. Pérez, V. Manuel Pérez, Silva, Skinner, Smyth, Solorio, Swanson, Torres, ...
Keep Reading »The US Media’s Schizophrenic Approach to Mass Shootings
On 20 July, 2012, twelve people died and many were injured when James Holmes attacked a crowd of moviegoers at the premiere of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado. The coverage of the event by the American media distracted the audience from a necessary conversation about race in the United States. It is time to reflect on how being a white middle-class male may also be part of the equation. Distractions The first distracting trajectory was the conversation about gun control. Only ...
Keep Reading »On Positionality and Not Naming Names: A Rejoinder to the Response by Maikey and Schotten
[This article was written as a rejoinder to Haneen Maikey and Heike Schotten's response to the authors' article on the intersections and impasses between US centered pinkwashing and pinkwatching activism. Click here to read Maikey and Schotten's response, and click here to read the original article by Mikdashi and Puar.] We thank Haneen Maikey and Heike Schotten for their thoughtful and detailed response to our article. We appreciate the time, effort, as well as ...
Keep Reading »The Southern Silk Road
1. Paralysis in Washington US policy on Iran is paralyzed. A report from mid-September by the Iran Project shows how the Obama agenda is poorly considered. This report, “Weighing the Costs of Military Action Against Iran,” comes with the imprimatur of Washington’s retired eminences: politicians (Republican Senator Chuck Hagel and Democratic Congressman Lee Hamilton), ambassadors (Frank Wisner and Thomas Pickering), and military officers (Admiral William Fallon and General Anthony Zinni). It suggests ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Media Roundup (8 October)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roundup to OIL@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every other week] News "White House Widening Covert War in North Africa", Kimberly Dozier The Associated Press reports on small teams of ...
Keep Reading »#MuslimRage, #Propaganda, #Empire
I would like to address the ways in which paid advertisements recently mounted on the New York City public transportation system are connected to the release and circulation of the “Innocence of Muslims” video. Both are made legible through the now-hegemonic grammar of the War on Terror and an archive of Orientalist tropes and themes. It is that same grammar that scripts the protests and violence that erupted across Muslim majority states in reaction to the video (a reaction which was clearly hoped for ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Monthly Archive on Jadaliyya (September 2012)
[This is a monthly archive of pieces written by Jadaliyya contributors and editors on the Occupations, Interventions,and Law (O.I.L.) Page. It also includes material published on other platforms that editors deemed pertinent to post as they provide diverse depictions of O.I.L.-related topics. The pieces reflect the level of critical analysis and diversity that Jadaliyya strives for, but the views are solely the ones of their authors. If you are interested in contributing to Jadaliyya, send us your post ...
Keep Reading »Text of Netanyahu's Speech to the UN General Assembly, 2012
[The following statement was made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the U.N. General Assemby on 27 September, 2012. It was published by the The Algemeiner.] It’s a pleasure to see the General Assembly presided by the Ambassador from Israel, and it’s good to see all of you, distinguished delegates. Ladies and Gentlemen, Three thousand years ago, King David reigned over the Jewish state in our eternal capital, Jerusalem. I say that to all those who proclaim that the Jewish state has no ...
Keep Reading »The Deeply Disturbing Israel Court Ruling on Rachel Corrie
Last month, in a deeply disturbing ruling, an Israeli court dismissed the civil lawsuit brought by my family against the state of Israel for the wrongful death of my daughter Rachel Corrie. Born and raised in Olympia, Rachel was a human-rights defender and peace activist killed in 2003 by an armored Israeli military bulldozer as she stood for hours, visibly and nonviolently protesting the Israeli government’s policy of civilian home demolitions in Rafah, Gaza. The home Rachel and her friends from the ...
Keep Reading »(a(version)s) interviews: Mohamed Abdelkarim and Rough Americana
It was October of 2011: sixty-seven years after one of the first compositions involving sampled sound, a haunting mutation of Egyptian zaar music, was created in Cairo by Halim El Dabh.1 I was holed up in a soundproof studio in Ashkal Alwan, between the echoes of the sea bouncing off the mountains above Beirut, beyond the relentless cacophony of cars and construction. I was alone in the studio with a record player, piecing together a new beat, diving into a stack of newly acquired records, searching ...
Keep Reading »Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu seemed inspired by the Road Runner cartoons, Glenn Beck and Reverend Gene Scott. The bizarre, almost hand drawn, “bomb” in one of his hands was complemented by the red marker in another: man enough, Bibi suggested, to draw his own red lines. He does not need the Americans. The last time someone came to the UN General Assembly and did one of these amateur presentations, the US went to war. Poor Colin Powell would come to regret his 5 February, 2003 speech where he laid out one ...
Keep Reading »Living Under Drones: Death, Injury, and Trauma to Civilians from US Drone Practices in Pakistan
[The following report was issued by the International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic at Stanford Law School and the Global Justice Clinic at the NYU School of Law.] Living Under Drones: Death, Injury, and Trauma to Civilians from US Drone Practices in Pakistan Executive Summary & Recommendations In the United States, the dominant narrative about the use of drones in Pakistan is of a surgically precise and effective tool that makes the US safer by enabling ...
Keep Reading »What a Seven Day Teachers' Strike Can Accomplish: Key Contract Issues
On 10 September 2012, approximately twenty-nine thousand members of the Chicago Teachers Union began a seven-day strike protesting a host of encroachments on their rights as workers and educators on the part of the Chicago Board of Education. While various news reports have detailed the final contract agreement, the chart below (published by the Chicago Tribune on 18 September) highlights the issues that were on the table and the movement in the board's positions that were achieved through the strike and ...
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