Tag Archives: Peter Beinart

Avraham Burg: World must tell Israel it can’t be ‘the only democracy in the Middle East’ & the last colonial occupier in the Western world

Former Israeli Knesset Speaker Avraham Burg endorses boycott of settlement products in The Independent.

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Peter Beinart’s cognitive dissonance on ‘threats to Israel’s demographics’

Michael Lerner and Peter Beinart seek to preserve Israel’s Jewish majority from the right of return

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Beinart’s Blindspot: Israel has always been a non-democratic apartheid state

Beinart’s new book to be brave, important, and blinkered all at once. The biggest problem is Beinart’s false, idealized image of pre-1967 Israel as a “flawed, but genuine democracy.” This doesn’t work because even within the green line Israel has always been a non-democratic apartheid state.

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If you deduct the Israelites, Pharaoh’s Egypt was actually a marvelous country

Bibi Netanyahu says if you deduct the Palestinians, Israel is actually a very equal country

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The liberal Zionist predicament

In an ironic and even perverse twist, Meir Kahane, the diehard unapologetic racist criminal, knew what most liberal Zionists are refusing to recognize — “Jewish and democratic state” is an oxymoron.

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‘The Crisis of Zionism’ and the contradictions of Israel as a liberal democratic fantasy

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A review of Peter Beinart’s new book, ‘The Crisis of Zionism’. While Beinart styles himself “a partisan of liberal democracy” and skillfully argues against the continued colonization of the West Bank, proponents of universal human rights will inevitably be disappointed by his fundamental analytical failings.

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New ‘NYT’ bureau chief Jodi Rudoren faces outcry from Israel advocates over Twitter messages

The fast and furious reaction to Jodi Rudoren’s Twitter messages, and what it says about ardent advocates for Israel.

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Is Sullivan’s witness on Israel/Palestine linked to his moral stance re his own church?

Yesterday I caught some of Andrew Sullivan’s appearance on Charlie Rose from the night before. He said he had stopped attending Catholic mass because the child abuse scandal sickened him, he said the church hierarchy was corrupted by it and … Continue reading

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