My family members got the following message in their email: “A Petition from the Office of Hasbara and the Diaspora Citizens of Israel, Following the stopping of the provocative flotilla, Israel is in the midst of a Hasbara war. We are confident that you are also feeling frustration given the [...]
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June 3rd, 2010 - 1:34 am § in Uncategorized
Israel calling on Israeli citizens to help with propaganda efforts
January 13th, 2010 - 1:39 pm § in Uncategorized
Privileged Pessimism: On the Israeli Mainstream
Contrary to popular belief, Marx never used the term “false consciousness”. He assumed that what prevented the disadvantaged from revolting was usually the “dull compulsion of economic relations” – the simple need to make a living (quoted in Scott’s fascinating Domination and the Arts [...]
January 8th, 2010 - 5:01 pm § in Uncategorized
The Israeli Experience Mystique
Here we go again: a Jewish American friend of mine posted a critique of Israeli policy in Gaza on her Facebook profile. Immediately, she got bullied: “I’m there right now and it’s very easy to post things on your facebook without having any first hand encounters. Rather than copyin[...]
November 6th, 2009 - 11:22 am § in Academia, Uncategorized
Turning Banners Into Flags: Thoughts from Palestine/Israel on Solidarity and Exclusion
This post comes to us from our activist friend Lior Hadar, who is currently in Israel/Palestine doing justice work with different organizations and groups. In this post he reflects on the borders people place on themselves, from the UC colleges to Israel/Palestine. A man once walked into a Black Lau[...]
August 19th, 2009 - 11:23 pm § in Uncategorized
Direct Action Parody: An Open Letter to Stephen Colbert
Dear Mr. Colbert, Like so many others, I consider the Colbert Report to be a powerful, politically courageous fusion of humor and politics, a fusion that at least for me represents a genuine alternative means of challenging the powerful and initiating discussions on pressing issues that are ignored [...]
Nepal: Land of the Landless, Government of Non-Governments
In Hebrew, Nepal is still referred to as a “poor country,” but in English development practitioners have long ago adopted the much nicer sounding term “impoverished.” Progress seems to have come to the very discourse of progress itself. But in my bilingual program Tevel Be’Tzedek (The Eart[...]