DONATE: I’ve created a Facebook fundraiser for Tikun Olam and my fiscal sponsor, Independent Arts & Media. Proceeds support my independent research and journalism and the struggle against apartheid and racism in Israel. Please donate here. Since Unilever announced that Ben & Jerry’s would leave its market in the Occupied Territories, the company’s board president, Anuradha […]
Two Cheers for Democracy, Three for One-State
The two state solution is dead. There are a few who haven’t gotten the memo, including Tony Blinken, Joe Biden and most of the rest of the Democratic Party. Also including liberal Zionists, meaning most of the Israel Lobby i.e. all the leading UK and American Jewish organizations There’s a reason one-state is especially attractive […]
Meron Disaster and the Dangers of Theocracy
Let’s begin at the beginning: Israel is a theocracy. Not a democracy. To be more precise, it is an ethno-theocracy, in which a single religion enjoys supremacy over others; and that religion controls dominant levers of social and political state power. This may seem somewhat afield from the post title, but bear with me. Every […]
How Hitler Killed Half the Jewish Diaspora and Zionism Projects Death of the Rest
I recently participated in an online panel that accompanied the screening of the film documentary, Yiddish: the Mama Loshn, for the Boulder Jewish Film Festival. I was not invited to the panel as a Yiddishist or professor of Yiddish or Jewish history (the three other panel members were). Instead, director Pierre Sauvage asked me to […]
