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The General’s Son Recounts Very Different Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

By Ira Chernus

…When Miko was arrested at a demonstration in a Palestinian village, the local Israeli commander told the soldiers: “He is an Israeli citizen and he has rights. He’s not a Palestinian that I can just beat up and throw in prison.” Under these conditions, Miko finds it extraordinary that Palestinians generally remain so calm and emotionally restrained—even when they’re in prison. His memoir gives convincing evidence to support his conclusion that “th…

Israel Under Bush: The Islamophobia Years

By Joel Schalit

…lidi’s intellectual achievements make it difficult to define him by political alliances that require a hostile and unreasonable other, particularly at a time of continued conflict in the Middle East. As long as it can be established that someone like Khalidi is an extremist bent on Israel’s destruction, there can be no place for Arabs at America’s table. Ironically, it is because of the value that American conservatives have attached to Israel tha…

Are We Seeing the End of the ‘Good Arabs’ in Israel?

By Shaul Magid

For anyone who follows the conflict in Israel/Palestine, the latest conflagration seems all too familiar. Tensions rise in the West Bank, in this case around the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem where the government is considering evicting Arab residents because of a legal claim that Jews originally resided there, thus making that property “Jewish.” This has been going on for decades but has heated up as the government has sent the ca…

Diplomatic Suckerhood: Why Israel Is Fighting Toward its Own Demise

By Ira Chernus

…ole world watches on television and the internet. It’s not surprising that Israel gets so little sympathy when it complains about its image problem—which only makes many Israelis worry more about their public image. But if Israeli Jews want to escape that vicious cycle and improve their image, no amount of money spent on clever PR campaigns will help until they do something about a basic root of the problem: their own cultural self-image. Not all…

Palin Talks Israel in Anticipation of 2012

By Shalom Goldman

…blican members of Congress, Sarah Palin told freshman lawmakers to support Israel, uncritically, and to let President Obama know that “Jerusalem is not a settlement.” Of all the things to focus on, why did Palin choose this contentious topic? What is the importance of the Holy City for the Alaskan contender—and why did she directly quote Prime Minister Netanyahu’s retort to Obama about the administration’s call to freeze settlement activity in Jer…

Israel-Hamas is Not a Religious War and This is Not Your Rapture

By Thomas Lecaque

…reets. Women and children butchered on a kibbutz in the south. In response Israel launched a massive aerial bombardment of the Gaza Strip, cutting off food, water and electricity to the region. The rhetoric coming out of the Israeli government has raised fears of genocide, with 2.3 million civilians trapped in a tiny strip of land without any real hope of fleeing, essentially held hostage by Israel’s military. Hamas’s crimes are indisputable, and…

A One-State Solution for Israel and Why It Will Work

By Haroon Moghul

…ile it’s alleged over and over again that Palestinians refuse to recognize Israel’s right to exist, or specifically its right to exist as a Jewish state, there’s a far more damning fact: Israel isn’t just rhetorically denying the right of a Palestinian state to exist. It has done so in the past, continues to do so, and doesn’t appear to be changing course anytime soon. Israel has been actively occupying and oppressing the Palestinian people for de…

Reading Beinart and Lerner as Gaza Burns

By Ira Chernus

…sis of Zionism by Peter Beinart Times Books (March 27, 2012) Embracing Israel/Palestine: A Strategy to Heal and Transform the Middle East by Michael Lerner North Atlantic Books (November 22, 2011) It’s a great time to be an Jewish American activist working for Middle East peace. I know that sounds strange. Israel is once again devastating Gaza. The Palestinian death toll is rising steadily. Even the more liberal Jewish-American groups like the R…

Mile-High Identity Politics: What We Can Learn From the Same-Sex Seating Controversy

By Eboo Patel

…ific groups. Women-only, black-only and LGBT-only spaces are a relevant parallel. Such spaces take into account the issues related to certain social identities (the personal) and advocate for a reshaping of the public square to accommodate it (the political). This requires some sacrifice of others. At the very least it means restricting their freedom by not allowing them to enter a certain facility while it is being used by a particular identity g…

Our Failure To Understand Ferguson: A Cognitive Explanation

By Andrew Aghapour

…led our flight to JFK, the first leg in a thirty-hour series of international flights, without notification. At the airport we learned that our savvier co-passengers had already filled the Delta flight that was our only alternative. I assumed that the system would somehow take care of us—we had paid good money and followed every rule—until our travel agent called with frantic instructions: “You must make this connection. Bribe two Delta passengers…