Nice takedown of Batya in the Times of Israel: The author explains how she was skeptical of Ungar-Sargon’s account and then started receiving emails accusing her of anti-Semitism!
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/anti-semitism-bard-and-me/
But in the past day or so, the chorus of voices adamantly contradicting her version has grown…
@Jackdaw: “I’m talking about the Bedouin willfully disregarding the Beersheba District Court decision of March 15, 2012 which ruled that the land belongs to the State. Remaining on State land illegally, is ‘squatting’.”
Everything Israel does is “legal”, Israel makes the laws, just as in this country poll taxes and slavery were once “legal”. We’re not talking about whether some Israeli court can supply some justification for moving the Bedouins around as if they were rocks on the landscape, are we?
@Debakr: ” I dont see who this supposed delusion of a 2ss is so cruel to…”
It’s cruel to all the Palestinians being tortured in Israeli jails.
Relevant: ” Revealed: rightwing push to ban criticism of Israel on US campuses
Documents seen by Guardian show fresh attack on university debate under the guise of prohibiting antisemitism…Rightwing activists are attempting to spread new laws across Republican-controlled states that would ban criticism on public university campuses of Israel and its occupation of Palestinian territory.”
@Jackdaw: Squatters? What on earth are you talking about?
If you had something to say about the actual content of the article, what would it be?
To paraphrase an old joke from the 70’s and 80’s here in the U.S.:
urban renewal = Bedouin removal.
From the Forward:
I Organized the Bard Conference, and Batya Ungar-Sargon Misrepresented What Happened….
@Mayhem: What does it mean, specifically, to be a “fundamentally Jewish state”?
Palestinians-Israelis make up 20% of Israel’s population. Are you saying they have less rights than Jewish Israelis?
@Nathan: Why would a Native American want to live in the U.S., especially given that the U.S. treats Native Americans so poorly?
I’ve always suspected that criticism of Israel would lead to a discussion on foreskin restoration surgery in the second century bc.