Yes, Jews are the victims – of Zionist propaganda
by Alan Hart
My headline takes me back 35 years to the day when I had a remarkably frank conversation in Tel Aviv with then retired Major-General Shlomo Gazit, the very best and the brightest of Israel’s directors of military intelligence.
I put to him my conclusion that “It’s all nonsense.” I meant and said that contrary to the assertions spewed out by its leaders, Israel’s existence had never, ever, been in danger from any combination of Arab and other Muslim military force and was never likely to be. Through a sad smile, Shlomo replied: “The trouble with us Israelis is that we’ve become the victims of our own propaganda.”
Occupied words: On Israel's colonial narrative [English & Spanish]
by Susan Abulhawa
'We are facing our extinction and fighting for our lives against foreigners who continue to pour into our lands' [EPA]
The language of sociopolitical constructs is rarely a mere collection of words arranged to reflect reality. More often, it is the very infrastructure of thought, laid out in a way to facilitate, or preclude, specific ideas.
In the case of a settler colonial enterprise, the selection of words is highly deliberate and meant to construct a moral syntax to contextualise ethnic cleansing and settlement.
The Israeli colonisation of Palestine has followed time-tested colonial narratives, which first describe conquered lands as uninhabited frontiers for hardworking underdogs, replete with the romantic language of, for example, "making the desert bloom".
‘Most-read’ article at Washington Post calls Israel ‘savage, unrepairable society’
by Assaf Gavron .
The leftwing movement of criticism of Israel is getting more and more mainstream by the second. Everyone is walking the path; they’re just getting there a little later. The Washington Post, a hotbed of neoconservative ideas for the last 15 years, has another article harshly critical of Israel today, written by an Israeli. And guess what: that article along with yesterday’s article by the two prestige Jewish academics calling for boycott of Israel are the two “most-read” articles on the Post list this morning!
Why is Benjamin Netanyahu trying to whitewash Hitler? [English & Spanish]
by Ali Abunimah, Lobby Watch .
Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly asserted that Adolf Hitler had no intention of exterminating Europe’s Jews until a Palestinian persuaded him to do it.
The Israeli prime minister’s attempt to whitewash Hitler and lay the blame for the Holocaust at the door of Palestinians signals a major escalation of his incitement against and demonization of the people living under his country’s military and settler-colonial rule.
It also involves a good deal of Holocaust denial.
In a speech to the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem on Tuesday, Netanyahu asserted that Haj Amin al-Husseini convinced Hitler to carry out the killings of 6 million Jews.
Arde Mississippi en Jerusalén
by Los Otros Judios
Joan Cañete Bayle.*
Jerusalén, 28 de octubre de 2015.
¿Qué sucede en Jerusalén?, me suelen preguntar. Y yo respondo: la ocupación. E insisten: Ya, pero ¿no están matando los palestinos a israelíes a cuchilladas? Sí, esa es una de las cosas que están sucediendo, respondo, y esos ciudadanos israelíes también son víctimas de las dinámicas de la ocupación. Alzamiento de cejas del interlocutor, un poso de incredulidad y desconfianza en la mirada, este tipo es propalestino, el mal llamado conflicto entre palestinos e israelíes es una de las pocas 'disciplinas científicas' en las que haberte dedicado durante mucho tiempo a ello no le da a tu voz autoridad sobre la del profano que no sabe lo que fue Abu Holy, sino que te convierte en sospechoso de haberte dejado "contaminar", de haberte "implicado demasiado" del lado palestino, por supuesto, porque uno sólo es culpable de "implicarse demasiado" si rompe el discurso dominante; si lo respetas entonces eres "imparcial" cuando en realidad ese respeto por las normas en lo que te convierte es en un equidistante (y en un periodista perezoso). Alzamiento de cejas, decía, del interlocutor y vuelta a la carga: ya, pero ¿qué sucede de verdad en Jerusalén? Y agotando la última reserva de paciencia, mordiéndote la lengua porque lo que quisieras decir es que la pregunta pertinente es ¿qué sucede de verdad en Israel?, contesto: si quieres saberlo, mira la película Arde Mississippi. Entonces es cuando me dejan por imposible.
Israeli women take Palestinian women to the beach. [English & Spanish]
These trips began a year ago thanks to the idea of an Israeli and have become a small and determined movement of civil disobedience.
Ilana Hammerman, writer, translator and editor, was learning Arabic in the West Bank when a Palestinian girl told him she longed to leave the territory, even for one day.
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