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Tag Archives: BDS
Substance & Tactics at JVP (Response to Mira Sucharov)
Mira Sucharov is one of the best writers in North America on the left about the contemporary politics in and about Israel and Palestine. Having moved off from a liberal Zionist (2 State Solution) point of political view, she … Continue reading
What Linda Sarsour Actually Seems to Have Said about Feminism & Zionism
Chaya Halberstam has pointed this out on FB, but I want to raise it here. An article in the Times of Israel states that, according to Palestinian activist Linda Sarsour, feminism and Zionism “do not go together.” She says no … Continue reading
(With and Against Israel) I Stand With and Against BDS
With BDS and the others with whom I count myself, I am not going to support the state, any state, including Israel, forbidding entry to people on the basis of ideological and political litmus tests. With BDS and others, I … Continue reading
Israel Travel Ban (Jewish Studies Letter of Protest)
Jewish Studies colleagues can consider signing this statement, which you can find here, in opposition to the Israel travel plan barring supporters of BDS and settlement boycotts from entering the country. To the best of my knowledge, the Jewish Studies professoriate … Continue reading
BDS (Stalking Horse)
Not even a month into the new school year and there are three fabricated BDS scandals. On principle, I will continue to oppose BDS; but it’s a major distraction. After fifty years of Israeli military occupation and settlement construction in … Continue reading
Statement re: Shimon Dotan, Syracuse University, and the Atlantic Magazine
With great sadness, I am writing in my capacity as director of Jewish Studies and as a close colleague and personal friend of Professor Hamner to share with the public my best assessment of the recent business concerning Syracuse University, … Continue reading
What We Talk About When We Talk About Israel (Anti-Zionism & Anti-Semitism)
What do we talk about when we talk about Israel? Not about Israel, and not even about Palestine, not about the occupation and not about the mechanisms that hold it in place, not about the political cartography in Jerusalem, Ramallah, … Continue reading
