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The racial logic behind Palestine’s partition
Partition was rarely endorsed as a solution to settler colonialism. But Europe's racialization of Jews distinguished Zionism from other settler enterprises.
By
Yair Wallach
January 10, 2023
The new Balfour Declaration
Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital echoes Lord Balfour’s denial of Palestinian rights a century ago. Today, however, Palestinians are more empowered to challenge it. During a debate in the British Cabinet regarding its policy toward Palestine in 1919, Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour informed Lord George Curzon, another senior statesman, that the government was not…
By
Amjad Iraqi
December 10, 2017
Welcome to the new American-Israeli consensus
The peace process, which began ceremoniously on the White House lawn in September 1993, has come to an end. We must find a new way.
By
Menachem Klein
December 8, 2017
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The danger of ignoring Arab opinion: 100 years since Balfour
Following the Balfour Declaration, two academics set out to understand what the people of Palestine wanted for their own future. What comes across from their report is the recognition that local, in this case largely Arab, opinions mattered. The British and French were undeterred. By James J. Zogby In 1919, following the first World War, the…
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November 12, 2017
Banksy’s new project tells the story of Palestine
Banksy’s controversial new hotel and museum in Bethlehem is more than just an interactive art gallery: it also, in the British street artist’s inimitable style, lays out the history of Palestine. By Dalal Erakat “Art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.” These are the words of Saul Bellow,…
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April 4, 2017
Between hope and despair: A Palestinian woman’s journey to Trumpland
A month after Trump’s election I found myself traveling across the United States. Along the way I met with a 103-year-old Jewish journalist, who reminded me that despite the good will of American Jewry, we live in two separate worlds. I spent 10 intense days between airports, malls, presentations, and meetings — switching between Hebrew,…
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Samah Salaime
December 8, 2016
The colonialist skeletons in Israel’s closet
Modern believers in the meaning, importance and necessity of Israel as a safe home for Jews had best come to terms with its less-than-organic birth — it did not magically appear on the sands of an empty landscape. By David Sarna Galdi A day before the Paris peace summit last month, director general of Israel’s…
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July 3, 2016
The many denials of liberal Zionism
From its origins until today, liberal Zionism has been unable to reconcile Israeli policies of dispossession and military control with the image of a democratic state. Is it merely a matter of semantics, or inherent to the ideology? Part two of Ran Greenstein’s analysis. By Ran Greenstein As discussed in the previous part of this…
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