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Category Archives: Palestine

Our South Africa Moment Has Arrived

Omar Barghouti, a founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), takes stock. This article is based on a presentation he recently gave … Continue reading

22 March, 2009 · 1 Comment

Kasrils: Who Said Nearly 50 Years Ago that Israel was an Apartheid State?

Ronnie Kasrils is South Africa’s Minister of Intelligence. The following is based on his address at ‘Israel Apartheid Week’, South Africa, delivered on Feb. 28, 2009. Kasrils will be in … Continue reading

19 March, 2009 · 1 Comment

'Seven Jewish Children' – A Play For Gaza

The full text of Caryl Churchill’s ten minute play (download .pdf) that the BBC deems unsuitable for broadcast. See the video at Peoples Geography – Reclaiming Space here. Seven Jewish … Continue reading

17 March, 2009 · 2 Comments

Testifying to Truth—and Paying the Price

An excellent piece from Samar Jabr, a psychiatrist practicing in the West Bank and her native Jerusalem. FOR MY RECENT article on the neurotic obsession with anti-Semitism and on using … Continue reading

16 March, 2009 · 5 Comments

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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