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Nakba

Of course it’s about racism

by Philip Weiss6 August 2009
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A work of journalistic genius by Gideon Levy (pictured), comparing his neighborhood in Tel Aviv, built on an Arab village after the Nakba, to the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem, which is being ethnically-cleansed today. He says, as we have argued here, that the unending occupation has forced open the door on the injustices of [...]

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How long before NYT puts ‘Nakba’ in a headline? (Not long)

by Philip Weiss5 August 2009

The Bay Area seems to be the epicenter of the changing discourse on Israel/Palestine. Last week it was the screening of the documentary "Rachel" at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. Yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle ran a piece called "The Continuing Nakba" about the sales of Palestinian property in Israel, thousands of homes Palestinians fled [...]

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Dershowitz says, actually Nakba was Palestinians prolonging the Holocaust

by Philip Weiss27 July 2009
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In the Jerusalem Post, Alan Dershowitz goes against the new trend among political Zionists who base Israel’s right-to-be-there in the Bible– as opposed to the Holocaust, which Obama cited in Cairo. Dersh is with Obama. He says, Actually the Holocaust is a basis, because the Palestinians supported the Nazis in the second World War.
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Bless its heart, ‘NPR’ covers the new Israel

by Philip Weiss24 July 2009

NPR’s "All Things Considered" did two pieces on the new Israel yesterday. One was about plans to remove Arabic names for places from road signs. Reporter was Peter Kenyon. Excellent job on an ugly story. The second piece was also unpleasant: about the elimination of the Nakba from textbooks in Israeli schools, including those serving [...]

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Nakba denial may soon become Israeli law – 230 lecturers already plan to challenge it

by Philip Weiss20 July 2009

A committee of the Israeli Knesset has passed anti-Nakba legislation. The law would not criminalize commemorations of the Nakba–the original legislation, loudly condemned–but, Haaretz reports, end public funding for activities that “reject the existence of the State of Israel as…

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inside ‘Bruno,’ a glimpse of the Nakba

by Philip Weiss18 July 2009

Beforehand my wife told her friend that I would laugh harder than anyone in the theater all thru “Bruno” then when we got out I’d say, “That wasn’t so good.” She was right, as usual. Two good things were: 1,…

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o happy day… ‘Washington Post’ covers racist Israeli current, and mentions the word ‘Nakba’

by Philip Weiss16 July 2009

I attack the Washington Post all the time. Well here’s a great piece by Howard Schneider and Samuel Sockol of the Post about Israeli novelist Alon Hilu, who has made the Nakba a central theme in a historical novel about…

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According to some historical accounts, there were pogroms in Russia

by Philip Weiss9 July 2009

Isabel Kershner, writing from Lod, Israel: Lod’s 75,000 residents are mostly Jewish, with Arabs making up a quarter or more of the population. Previously an Arab city known as Lydda, it was conquered by Israeli forces in July 1948. Most…

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Zellnik: make 2 democratic states (and then dream about one state)

by Philip Weiss4 July 2009

Lately we’ve been conducting an informal roundtable on the challenge, Offer readers a forward-looking solution in Israel/Palestine. The following is a response from David Zellnik, a leading young playwright, and non-Zionist Jew. Actions are more important than words, as in…

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The Nakba is part of the Jewish narrative: Israelis deal with the trauma of 1948 as well

by Adam Horowitz25 June 2009

The paper was given today by Eitan Bronstein at the Shadow of Memory: Relational Perspectives of Remembering & Forgetting conference held in Tel Aviv. Bronstein is the Director of the Israeli organization Zochrot, which carries out educational and advocacy campaigns…

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my nagging question since Gaza

by Philip Weiss23 June 2009

This is an interesting, Talmudic piece in Haaretz by Chaim Gans, an author on Zionism, saying that Palestinians unfairly paid the price (as no other people did) for the creation of the Jewish state, but that there was justice in…

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Does Obama ‘believe’ in the Nakba?

by Philip Weiss19 June 2009

Malcolm Hoenlein didn’t like Ron Kessler’s report on his comments about Jews being not crazy about Obama, apparently. And questioning what Obama “believes.” He “backtracked,” Newsmax.com says. Well, Newsmax.com is now releasing the transcript of the original interview. Here’s a…

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This Arab moment

by Philip Weiss18 June 2009

Tonight I went to a book party on the Upper West Side for the posthumous memoir A World I Loved, by Wadad Makdisi Cortas, late mother of Mariam Said, at whose apartment the party was. Cortas was a Lebanese educator…

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US support for the ’special relationship’ will continue to decline as Israeli history and values become more widely known

by Adam Horowitz17 June 2009

Harold Meyerson has a great oped in today’s Washington Post which makes several of the same points we have been making on this site – American Jews’ belief in liberalism and equality is beginning to outweigh their support for Israel….

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