Tag Archives: Yehouda Shenhav

In Ajami and Mas’ha, evidence of the continuing Nakba

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Alex Kane

Ramallah, West Bank–The Palestinian catastrophe, the Nakba of 1948, never really ended. What has happened since then, as Yehouda Shenhav, an Israeli sociologist and the author of Bounded by the Green Line, puts it, is a “continuation of the [1948] … Continue reading →

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Some animals are more equal than others

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Shmuel Sermoneta-Gertel

In one of his posts from the Holy Land, Phil referred to an obnoxious teenager on a bus as an “ars” (Israeli slang for unsavoury young man, inevitably Mizrahi – from the Arabic word for pimp), and Avigdor “Yvette” Lieberman … Continue reading →

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Palestinian Israelis are to have ‘Jewish’ nationality (as Jews once had to be public Christians in Europe)

Posted on October 10, 2010 by Shmuel Sermoneta-Gertel

Today the Israeli government approved a proposal by Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman to change the declaration of loyalty required of all non-Jews applying for Israeli citizenship (excluding those entitled to citizenship according to the Law of Return).  Neeman’s proposal seeks … Continue reading →

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