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Arab Culture / Israel / Palestinian people

December 19, 2011

Uri Avnery on Newt

Uri Avnery writes: December 17, 2011 “With Friends Like These…” MY GOD, what a bizarre lot these Republican aspirants for the US presidency are! What a sorry bunch of ignoramuses and downright crazies. Or,...

"Arab Spring" / European History / Israel / Journalism / Maghreb / Uncategorized

December 3, 2011

Latest signandsight roundups

I haven’t had the time to catch up with signandsight in recent weeks — but here the site’s most recent posts: Legacy of denial Germany has been rocked by the disclosures surrounding the...

Israel / Palestine

October 21, 2011

Uri Avnery on Prisoner Swap

October 22, 2011 Everybody’s Son THE MOST sensible – I almost wrote “the only sensible” – sentence uttered this week sprang from the lips of a 5-year old boy. After the prisoner swap, one...

Human rights / Intellectuals / Israel / Palestine

September 23, 2011

Israeli Intellectuals back Palestinian Statehood in Tel Aviv Rally

This from today’s edition of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz (original article here): Former MK Yael Dayan criticizes Israeli leadership for calling Palestinian bid at UN ‘unilateral,’ asking: ‘Isn’t the occupation unilateral?’ By Asaf Shtull-Trauring...

Censorship / Interview / Israel

May 7, 2011

NY Times: After Reversal, Honor Is Likely for Kushner

Here, the opening paragraphs of today’s NY Times article on CUNY’s reversal in re Tony Kushner (you can read the full article here): After Reversal, Honor Is Likely for Kushner By WINNIE HU Published: May...

Censorship / Human rights / Intellectuals / Israel / New York

May 5, 2011

Tony Kushner’s Response

Tony Kushner c/o Heat & Light Co., Inc. 119 West 72nd Street #193 New York, NY 10023 The Board of Trustees of the City University of New York 535 East 80th Street New...

Censorship / Israel / New York / Uncategorized

May 4, 2011

CUNY nixes Kushner honorary degree over anti-Israel statements

Tony Kushner This was brought to my attention by Marilyn Hacker’s watchful eye in Paris, & comes from the JTA website, here. A more detailed article can be found on the site of The Jewish Week, here. May...

Israel / Obituaries

April 6, 2011

Gideon Levy remembers Juliano Mer-Khamis

… An Arab, a Jew, a human being Juliano Mer-Khamis was one of the most talented theater actors to ever emerge here was also the most courageous of them. By Gideon Levy (in Haaretz, here)...

Intellectuals / Israel / Journalism

January 13, 2011

Diane Shammas on Helen Thomas

The shameful dismissal of journalist Helen Thomas for supposedly “antisemitic” remarks has passed more or less unnoticed or buried on the back pages. It is useful therefore that Counterpunch has just published an article...

Gaza Strip / Israel / Palestinian people / Uncategorized

January 5, 2011

“Don’t distort our speech” — GYBO

As a follow up on my post from 2 January “Gaza Youth Manifesto,” here is their latest message & corrective. I was alerted to this by a reader of the blog who posted an...