Alan Hart: My Last Post – Final Thoughts on Zionism´s Success and Arab...
Will Masada II be the endgame? I am withdrawing from the battlefield of the war for the truth of history as it relates to the making and sustaining of the conflict in and over Palestine that became...
View ArticleUri Avnery: Gingrich, Israel and the Palestinians
What a bizarre lot these Republican aspirants for the US presidency are! What a sorry bunch of ignoramuses and downright crazies. Or, at best, what a bunch of cheats and cynics! (With the possible...
View ArticleUri Avnery: A World Record for Chutzpah
And the Winner is … Netanyahu! I DON’T know if the Guinness Book of World Records has a special section for Chutzpah. If it does not, it should. That’s the one competition where we might take home a...
View ArticleVacy Vlazna: The Charlatanism of Palestine-Denial
Vacy Vlazna Here we go again. On Israel and the US losing their UNESCO voting rights, ‘Israel’s ambassador to UNESCO, Nimrod Barkan, ‘said in an interview that his country supports the U.S. decision...
View ArticleThe Charlatanism of Palestine-Denial
Here we go again. On Israel and the US losing their UNESCO voting rights, ‘Israel’s ambassador to UNESCO, Nimrod Barkan, ‘said in an interview that his country supports the U.S. decision [to suspend...
View ArticleNeutral – in Whose Favor?
A former Israeli army Chief of Staff, a man of limited intelligence, was told that a certain individual was an atheist. “Yes,” he asked, “but a Jewish atheist or a Christian atheist?” Lenin, in his...
View ArticleIsrael and the politics of boycott
"Boycott" is a term as old as political Zionism. As is commonly known, it came into circulation in 1880, starting out as an Irish peasant action to prevent peasant evictions from the land by landlords...
View ArticleAnother Pipe Dream
WHAT’S WRONG about the demand that the Palestinian leadership recognize Israel as the “Nation State of the Jewish People”? Well, practically everything. States recognize each other. They don’t have to...
View ArticlePalestine and Israel: Why Obama is wrong
Video: Related Columns WASHINGTON, March 25, 2013 ― What would be your reaction if someone postulated that it is unfair for the city of Jackson, Miss., to not have a team in the National Basketball...
View ArticleThe Reality Of Present Day Anti-Semitism. Or To Be More Precise: Anti-Jewish...
Anti-Semitism or a justifiable demand that Israelis stop persecuting Palestinians? “It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the...
View ArticleJohn Pilger: Gaza and the Threat of World War
“There is a taboo,” said the visionary Edward Said, “on telling the truth about Palestine and the great destructive force behind Israel. Only when this truth is out can any of us be free.” For many...
View ArticleWhatever Happened to Shlomo Sand?
When Shlomo Sand’s book was published it caused a largely a storm of outrage here in the United States among the few who read it. It was a bestseller in Israel, though mostly reviled, and where it was...
View ArticleA Brief History of Jerusalem
The most recent Zionist reiterations of the claim to “eternal” Jewish ownership of East Jerusalem—as part of an “undivided, eternal capital of Israel” as specified by a “Basic Law” passed by the...
View ArticleUri Avnery: Yasser Arafat – The Assassination
For Israelis, Arafat was the embodiment of the Palestinian people From the first moment, I did not have the slightest doubt that Yasser Arafat was assassinated. It was a matter of simple logic. On the...
View ArticleNothing Changes as Much as the Past
WHEN I was 15 years old and a member of the Irgun underground (by today’s criteria, an honest-to-goodness terrorist organization), we sang “(In the past) we had the heroes / Bar Kochba and the...
View ArticleThe Watch on the Jordan
The Arab world is in turmoil. Syria and Iraq are breaking apart, the thousand-year old conflict between Muslim Sunnis and Muslim Shiites is reaching a new climax. A historic drama is unfolding around...
View ArticleAlison Weir: Why Is the US Honoring a Racist Rabby?
The Extremist Origins of Education and Sharing Day If things proceed normally, President Barak Obama will soon proclaim April 11, 2014 “Education and Sharing Day, U.S.A.” Despite the innocuous name,...
View ArticleElias Akleh: Israel’s History of Chemical Weapons Use
The UN chemical weapons inspectors, who went to Syria to investigate the use of chemical weapons, should have stopped on their way at Occupied Palestine (Israel), where Israeli government has the...
View ArticleThe Re-Judaizing of Israel
During the last hundred years, Russia has undergone huge changes. At the beginning, it was ruled by the Czar, in an absolute monarchy with some democratic decorations, a “tyranny mitigated by...
View ArticleThe Last of the Semites
Jewish opponents of Zionism understood the movement since its early age as one that shared the precepts of anti-Semitism in its diagnosis of what gentile Europeans called the “Jewish Question”. What...
View ArticleVijay Prashad: The Palestinians and the “Jewish State”
What is Israel’s definition of a Jewish state if it does not conform to ethnic and religious purity? (Tali Mayer / ActiveStills) Palestinian negotiators have a miserable task – each time they approach...
View Article65 Years of Palestinian Nakba
Every 15th of May Palestinians; old and young, all over the world, within Zionist occupied Palestine, in every Palestinian refugee camp, and in every exile country, commemorate the Palestinian Nakba;...
View ArticleThe Connection Between Archaeology and Ideology in the Middle East
FIRST OF ALL, let me thank you for inviting me to address this important conference. I am neither a professor nor a doctor. Indeed, the highest academic title I ever achieved was SEC (Seventh...
View ArticleUri Avnery: The Atrocity
BOMBS ARE raining on Gaza and rockets on Southern Israel, people are dying and homes are being destroyed. Again. Again without any purpose. Again with the certainty that after it’s all over, everything...
View ArticleMichael Welton: The Problem of Israel in the Modern World
Can the Unspeakable be Spoken? The mood of our uneasy times is incredibly bellicose, dark, apocalyptic and vengeful. The “war on terror” is like a virus that infects everything it touches. And it does...
View ArticleThe Fallacy of Rising Anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitism is on the rise. All over Europe it is raising its ugly head. Jews are in danger everywhere. They must make haste and come home to Israel before it is too late. True? Untrue? Nonsense....
View Article'1913: Seeds of Conflict' looks at the invasion of European Jews to Palestine
The 2014 documentary "1913: Seeds of Conflict" attempts to look at the shaping of the current conflict between Israel and Palestine, something that began long before World War II but not as far back as...
View ArticleJames Petras: Israeli Genocide and its Willing Accomplices
Introduction: Outside of Israel and its organized supporters in the major Zionist organizations, world public opinion and most experts in international law see the Jewish State’s invasion of Gaza and...
View ArticleFor Israel, it’s all about the population figures
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinian construction worker Nael Yassin and his wife, Wafa, are the proud parents of a new baby girl — the fifth child for the couple in their early 30s. Such fecundity is...
View ArticleIsrael: Is it really a free country?
Related Columns OCALA, Fla., November 4, 2013 — Fewer questions are more challenging, or controversial, than this: What is Israel’s place in twenty-first century society? Is it a homeland for the...
View ArticleThe Hannibal Procedure
The last war has come to an end, the next war has not yet started, so let’s use the time to speak of many things. Of Hannibal, for example. Hannibal? The man with the elephants? The very same....
View ArticleAll the Missing Muhammads
It sounds like a joke. But it isn’t. About a month ago, on the eve of the Jewish New Year, the government statistical office published a set of interesting items about the population of the state. It...
View ArticleHeathcote William: An Old Man and a Young Man in Gaza – A Poem
By Heathcote William An old man holds a placard that reads, “You take my water, burn my olive trees, Destroy my house, take my job, steal my land, Imprison my father, kill my mother, Bombard my...
View ArticleDavid Rovics: The Antideutsch and Me – An Open Letter to the German Left
Last night another concert of mine in Germany was canceled due to pressure from a political tendency here known as the Antideutsch (Anti-Germans). The show went ahead, in this case, but in a different...
View ArticleThe Real Naqba
Three weeks ago was Naqba Day – the day on which Palestinians inside and outside Israel commemorate their “catastrophe” – the exodus of more than half of the Palestinian people from the territories...
View ArticleJeremy R. Hammond: The Role of the U.N. in Creating the Israeli-Palestinian...
<img class=”size-full wp-image-4079″ alt=”Jewish residents of Jerusalem ride a police car and wave what would become the Israeli flag as they celebrate the previous day’s General Assembly vote...
View ArticleThe Fallacy of Anti-Semitism Rising
The benevolent writer Uri Averny has in his latest polemic for CounterPunch entitled “The Fallacy of Rising Anti-Semitism.” In this article, Averny, whose credentials include founding Gush Shalom peace...
View ArticlePalestinian Journalist/Author/Poet/Activist Fouzi El-Amsar, R.I.P.
It's the details one often remembers. Mine is the memory of Fouzi El-Asmar surrounded by piles of newspapers, documents, and books, at his Washington, D.C. office and Maryland home office. The noted...
View ArticleIn Their Own Juices
According to press reports, President Barack Obama has decided to let Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas “stew in their own juice.” That sounds fair. The United States has tried very hard to make...
View ArticleStriking Fear in Paris
The three Islamic terrorists could have been very proud of themselves, if they had lived to see it. By committing two attacks (quite ordinary ones by Israeli standards) they spread panic throughout...
View ArticleDeath of a British illusion
Propaganda did much to blind the public to the realities of Palestine The ‘recognition’ of a Palestinian state by the UK Parliament on October 13 has been scorned as gesture politics. The criticism is...
View ArticleFinal thoughts on Zionism’s success and Arab failure
Alan Hart speaking with Yasser Arafat I am withdrawing from the battlefield of the war for the truth of history as it relates to the making and sustaining of the conflict in and over Palestine that...
View ArticleThe Pariah State
‘From abroad, we are accustomed to believe that Eretz Israel is presently almost totally desolate, an uncultivated desert, and that anyone wishing to buy land there can come and buy all he wants. But...
View ArticleAvi Shlaim: The Debate About 1948 (1995)
International Journal of Middle East Studies, 27:3, 1995, 287-304. Reprinted in Ilan Pappé, ed., The Israel/Palestine Question (London: Longman, 1999). 'Conquerors, my son, consider as true history...
View ArticleThe Triumph and Tragedy of Ari Shavit’s My Promised Land
Ari Shavit’s new book was praised for balancing the story of Zionism’s accomplishments with criticism of its founding sins–but his work distorts history and hurts the chances for peace. Ari Shavit’s My...
View ArticleAt 90, Uri Avnery still finds himself outside the Israeli consensus as he...
TEL AVIV, Israel — Having just turned 90, Uri Avnery still finds himself firmly outside Israel’s national consensus. For more than six decades, the tabloid publisher, member of parliament, author and...
View ArticleZionism in Britain: A Neglected Chronicle
By Evan Jones By the worst means, the worst. For mine own good, All causes shall give way: I am in blood Stepped in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o’er. Macbeth...
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