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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.
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
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.
Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, One state/Two states
Tagged A Land of Two Peoples Martin Buber on Jews and Arabs, Gideon Levy, Haaretz, Israel is a Non-Democratic Apartheid State, Israeli Apartheid, Israeli Palestinian Equality Movement, Judah Magnes, Martin Buber, Palestinian Civil Rights Movement, Peter Beinart, right of return, The Crime of Apartheid, The Crisis of Zionism, The Middle East's Only Pretend Democracy
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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
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.
‘The Crisis of Zionism’ and the contradictions of Israel as a liberal democratic fantasy

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.
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.
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

