Another original article by Professor Neve Gordon, analyzing the implications of Aafat’s death. [Previously published in In These Times]
Neve Gordon teaches politics at Ben-Gurion University, Israel, and is editor of From the Margins of Globalization: Critical Perspectives on Human Rights (Rowman and Littlefield September 2004).
Previous articles by Professor Gordon cited on this weblog can be [...]
Before the election, pundits on the right were predicting (hoping) for a historical shift in the traditional voting patterns of Jews — away from the Democratic party and towards Bush. By contrast, some on the left implicitely blamed Jews and “support for Israel” as the key engine for Bush & Co’s militant policies in the [...]
In general, I try to keep the focus of this blog on the Israel/Palestine conflict. There are plenty of excellent general lefty blogs around. But I often see parallels in the United States to what went on in Israel. There too, a rise in mystical blood-thirsty fundamentalism, moved Israel away from democratic values. There too, [...]
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