Tag Archives: Palestine

Facts, Law, and Judaism (World Union of Jewish Studies)

Posted on August 5, 2025 by zjb

At a special panel at the World Union of Jewish Studies Congress taking place at the Hebrew University, colleagues, mostly Israeli, came to discuss facts, law, and Judaism. At the podium and from the floor, colleagues spoke to testimony, international … Continue reading →

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(Desert) Makom (Palestine)

Posted on July 30, 2025 by zjb

[somewhere off rt. 1 in the desert between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea]

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(Documenting Dispossession) No Other Land

Posted on February 28, 2025 by zjb

A lot of press attention has gone to the superb documentary No Other Land about the struggle of local Palestinian activists of Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank against the Israeli state working to expropriate their lands. Much of … Continue reading →

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Anti-Politics of Israel and Palestine (Negative Affect in the Age of Misinformation)

Posted on February 21, 2025 by zjb

If the essence of “the political” is the binding together of a collective across social difference then what one would otherwise call politics today in the Age of Trump and Musk is distinctly anti-political. Anti-politics is fed by binary things. … Continue reading →

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(New Norms) Anti-Zionism on Campus (October 7)

Posted on June 26, 2024 by zjb

                                                                           To the degree discourse about Israel and Palestine has been captured by the student and faculty left, the university has been made more strange in the wake of the Hamas terrorist attacks on October 7. On the one … Continue reading →

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(Israel) Cruelty & Catastrophe (Hamas)

Posted on May 31, 2024 by zjb

The primary moral response and natural inclination in the face of catastrophe is to think of the victims first. But the political calculus is more complex. Political leaders of sovereign and semi-sovereign national communities are responsible for the well-being of … Continue reading →

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Yom Ha’Zikaron-Nakba Day-Yom Ha’Atzmaut (2024)

Posted on May 12, 2024 by zjb

It is possible to be of one mind. This op-ed by Hanin Majadli at Ha’aretz is a Palestinian reflection on Gaza an Palestinian identity that mirrors the thoughts of so many of us this year who care about this place … Continue reading →

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The One-State Reality = Violence + War

Posted on October 20, 2023 by zjb

This, the utter mayhem today, is the one-state reality. The one-state reality extends over Israel and the West Bank from the River to the Sea, and not excluding Gaza. You can dream about the possibility and the promise of a … Continue reading →

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Nakba & Democracy

Posted on May 15, 2023 by zjb

For general interest I am posting here the translation of a historical document from an Israeli security officer regarding the Palestinian Nakba and a 2019 article here by Hagar Shezaf relating to it and other documents being hidden/removed from Israeli … Continue reading →

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Russia Ukraine Syria Israel Palestine

Posted on March 2, 2022 by zjb

On one hand, there are in the United States and Europe fish to fry on the international and domestic arenas that are bigger than Israel and Palestine. Taking into account Russia and Syria, Russia and Ukraine, and Iranian involvements in … Continue reading →

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