Month: July 2012

facts on the ground
Archeology / Architecture / Assassination

Biblical stories are uncorroborated

8 July 2012
Gabriel Piterburg on Facts on the Ground By Nadia Abu El-Haj“…she has been vindicated by Israeli archaeologists themselves. A group of Israeli archaeologists that had been sent after the 1967 war by the state to […]
Shafir explains why Israel is the product of a settler colonial project, European Zionism
What is Zionism?

Zionism as a settler colonial project

8 July 2012
Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914 By Gershon Shafir [Shafir] “excavated the impact of settler colonial thinking in Europe upon the early Zionist settlers. For instance, the impact of the attempt by […]
Gebriel Piterberg looks at a biography of Herzl by Jacques Kornberg
The "Jewish Question"

What drove Herzl to Zionism?

8 July 2012
[Herzl’s] “alienation from his own Jewishness and his deep underlying desire to be a Gentile himself. Kornberg shows how Herzl really wanted to be accepted as a white Christian man and how he came, because […]
torture
Torture

The prevalence of torture in 1988

7 July 2012
(from Chapter 10, The Hidden History of Zionism, The Prevalence of Torture) The use of torture in Israeli prisons has been the subject of extensive inquiry. In 1977, the London Sunday Times conducted a five-month […]
The short book is an excellent general introduction.
Modern Zionism

Four key myths of Zionism

7 July 2012
By Ralph Schoenman (The Hidden History of Zionism Chapter 1 The Four Myths) “…when we study what the Zionists have written and said – particularly when addressing themselves – no doubt remains about what they […]
Looted Palestinian books, labelled 'absentee property'
Cartography / Culture

Israel’s war on Palestinian culture

7 July 2012
by Maureen Clare Murphy on Mon 24 Oct 2011 In a new article made available today by the journal Jerusalem Quarterly, activist and The Electronic Intifada contributor Hannah Mermelstein discusses a lesser known part of […]
What is BDS?

Introducing the BDS Movement

5 July 2012
The global movement for a campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel until it complies with international law and Palestinian rights was initiated by Palestinian civil society in 2005, and is coordinated by […]