The real problem is that anti-Semitism has become an integral part of Palestinian and Arab nationalism, imported from the west.
The outpouring of grief following his departure represents global recognition of the cover provided by Peres.
The reason why the claimed ‘right to exist’ is problematic is a question of definition, not of dematerialisation. A reply to Mary Davis’ reply.
A distinction must in all cases be made between the state and civil society.
Whatever else they were guilty of, the two authors of the invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, George Bush and Tony Blair, displayed an astonishing ignorance of history.
“How are we to understand the amazing increase in rhetoric about antisemitism, quite divorced from any actually discernible increase in antisemitism itself?”
While Israeli settlers living in the West Bank are completely integrated into the Israeli system and have access to PayPal and other technologies, the Palestinians they live among do not.
Only when we refute the monolithic interpretation of Zionist theory and practice can we approach an understanding of the contested relationship between anti-zionism and antisemitism.
A new attorney general seems to have adopted a tougher line on investigating allegations of political corruption.
The Bedouin and rural communities in the Jordan Valley are remote from the conflict, yet key victims of a campaign of oppression.
The EU must confront Israel with the fundamental choice: continuing its occupation and systematic violations of international law, or being a full and respected member of the international community.
Jerusalem is not just a site of ‘conflict’, as the INOGS conference programme says. It is a site in which questions of ‘genocide’, the deliberate destruction of communities, are all too live.
