the last train in vain
from Zinn Education Project: On April 19, 1943, the eve of Passover, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began when Nazi forces attempted to clear out the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, to send them to...
View Articlepouring salt on the dream: land of wine and roses
Radical Jewish culture. It seems to be the natural habitat of the near geniuses, the brilliant, the firebrands, the authentic rebels and the general shit disturbers motivated by a profound conviction....
View Articletalking your son off the roof
Israel Independence Day. A mixed blessing to be sure. “Never Again!” is what you hear. But does that also mean never again to get screwed by your own elected officials? Zionism has proven itself to be...
View Articledrifters escape
To watch these debates between two sides that speak a foreign language to each other. The Peace Now camp links their success to the apparatus of the legal and legislative tools of the nation state. The...
View Articlebrothers and sisters at arms
It seems any liberal democratic country needs some group to kick around, vaporize public opinion, and marshall discontentment towards some form of visible minority. Why should israel be excluded from...
View Articlecorridors of power
They needed the labor. So, the arrangement was to create this fictitious identity called religious Zionism , an oxymoron and make them believe they held real power. It a stretch to imagine it, but...
View Articlehave horse will trample
Stampede in a one horse town. Wild horses could not drag them away…An unwashed mob, scheming to steal the ruling class’s public prestige, the social capital of “neutrality” ; making them look bad. “And...
View Articlemaybe something good will come of them
And now we approach the jewish holiday of Hannukah, the Festival of Lights which recalls the victory more than 2000 years ago, of a militarily weak but spiritually strong people over the mighty forces...
View Articlesettlements: obstacle or necessary to peace
It seems like an inverted sense of logic, but to a not insignificant number, the most immediate step to solving the problem is to settle the entire land. That is, wherever there is an open space in...
View Articletwist and shout
At its core is a concern for life and security. After the Oslo and Hebron agreements, people eulogized the old dream of a greater Israel, mythical as that was. They have heralded these treaties as...
View Articlerefusniks
Much ado about nothing? Its remarkable how the most ardent critics of Zionism are basically part of the same ideological swamp ; leftist foes of liberal democracy that could not function without...
View Articleblinded by the light
When Noam Chomsky first began writing about American involvement in Vietnam, the writing was taught, concise, well researched and quite clear in explaining Republicanism and monopoly capital. After...
View Articleragged glory
There is something ironic about seeing that video of Danish protesters, unarmed and non-violent getting absolutely smashed silly by riot police and then juxtaposing that footage with the same ugly use...
View Articlethe last train in vain
from Zinn Education Project: On April 19, 1943, the eve of Passover, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began when Nazi forces attempted to clear out the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, to send them to...
View Articlepouring salt on the dream: land of wine and roses
Radical Jewish culture. It seems to be the natural habitat of the near geniuses, the brilliant, the firebrands, the authentic rebels and the general shit disturbers motivated by a profound conviction....
View Articletalking your son off the roof
Israel Independence Day. A mixed blessing to be sure. “Never Again!” is what you hear. But does that also mean never again to get screwed by your own elected officials? Zionism has proven itself to be...
View Articledrifters escape
To watch these debates between two sides that speak a foreign language to each other. The Peace Now camp links their success to the apparatus of the legal and legislative tools of the nation state. The...
View Articlebrothers and sisters at arms
It seems any liberal democratic country needs some group to kick around, vaporize public opinion, and marshall discontentment towards some form of visible minority. Why should israel be excluded from...
View Articlecorridors of power
They needed the labor. So, the arrangement was to create this fictitious identity called religious Zionism , an oxymoron and make them believe they held real power. It a stretch to imagine it, but...
View Articlehave horse will trample
Stampede in a one horse town. Wild horses could not drag them away…An unwashed mob, scheming to steal the ruling class’s public prestige, the social capital of “neutrality” ; making them look bad. “And...
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