Heated Facebook discussions often end badly, sometimes involving a Hitler comparison or two. Recently I had one that ended surprisingly well, with all the parties friending each other. But it was quite heated nonetheless. The subject was some recent comments by Norman Finkelstein. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘palestinians’
Imagining Return
Dedicated to my comrades in Students for Justice in Palestine I should have taken your email! People were all around us at the rally, shouting and singing, I really wanted to talk to someone but I didn’t notice how well you were listening, how you had patience to talk to me and read t[...]
“Economic Peace” in the New York Times?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently went public with an Israeli plan for ‘economic peace’ with the Palestinian people. This concept is distinct from political peace, which addresses the stated demands of the Palestinian authority, in that it ‘circumvents’ this [...]
Violence and the Crime of Dispossession in Israel/Palestine
When I was learning about South African apartheid, its (formal) collapse, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, I remember learning about a very telling story about what aspects of apartheid the TRC process concentrated on, and what it avoided. One day, at the time that TRC’s were hearing [...]