Author Archives: Terri Ginsberg

About Terri Ginsberg

Terri Ginsberg is a film scholar and Palestine solidarity activist based in New York City. She is co-author of Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema (2010), author of Holocaust Film: The Political Aesthetics of Ideology (2007), and co-editor of A Companion to German Cinema (2012).

Jabara’s classic ‘Zionism: Racism or Liberation?’ deserves a new life

Abdeen Jabara in ’76: “In the examination of any society, one must distinguish between discrimination as it exists bet­ween individual citizens or private parties, on the one hand, and dis­crimination as a part of public policy or state action, discrimination contained not just in the way the laws are applied but in the terms of the law itself…. The goal of constructing and maintaining a Jewish state made the ‘national’ discrimination a necessary part of the state itself”

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NYACT questions Google chief’s call for drones regulation

Google CEO Schmidt calls for regulating drones while Google collaborates with Technion, Israel’s major drones research and development institute.

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‘The tide of public opinion is turning’ — Committee for Open Discussion of Zionism commends Brooklyn College

CODZ commends Brooklyn College for upholding academic freedom after Dershowitz calls for withdrawal of departmental sponsorship of BDS event.

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Stanley Jordan’s withdrawal, and the worldliness of jazz

Jazz guitarist and pianist Stanley Jordan has cancelled an appearance at an Israel festival, in recognition that the festival supports and masks apartheid

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Birzeit University group calls on Cornell to end partnership with Technion

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  In light of news that Cornell University has engaged in a joint bid with Israel’s Technion Israel Institute of Technology to build a campus of applied science and technology on New York’s Roosevelt Island, we, the students and volunteers … Continue reading

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Overwhelming US support for onslaught was given in prejudicial disregard of Palestinian perspective — Scholars

U.S. government support for Operation Pillar of Defense was offered brazenly and prejudicially, in blatant disregard for Palestinian perspectives and experiences

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Update: Israeli Ministry of Ed teacher is moderator of scholars’ listserv on anti-Semitism (with predictable results)

Yo Menashe works at the Israeli ministry of education and as moderator for a major scholars’ listserv on the social sciences. She believes that anti-Zionism equals anti-Semitism, and she enforces that idea on the listserv

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DC thinktanks offer program on Christian Zionism and Islamophobia

Norton Mezvinsky, an anti-Zionist, will join up with the Council for the National Interest this week to stage a program about Christian Zionism and Islamophobia

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It is dangerous for US and Israel to blame religion for actions taken by Muslims and Arabs — El-Asmar

The US must address underlying causes of rage against it in Muslim countries, including its blind support for Israel, rather than ascribe hostile actions to Islam

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