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Theroux’s Film on Israel’s Violent Settlers Was a Mirror

For once, the BBC aired a documentary showing Israeli society’s dark underbelly. The backlash is not because Louis Theroux got it wrong. It’s because his film tells us far too much about ourselves Louis Theroux explains in a commentary published by the Guardian on 10 May why the backlash to his recent film about violent, […]
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Maura Finkelstein on Academic Freedom, Jewish, Zionism, and Palestine
Host Faramarz Farbod talks with Dr. Maura Finkelstein, writer, ethnographer, anthropologist, and author of The Archive of Loss: Lively Ruination in Mill Land Mumbai (DUP 2019). Dr. Finkelstein was falsely accused of antisemitism and fired last May (2024) from her teaching position at Muhlenberg College in Allentown. We talk about the state of academic freedom, […]
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Jewish Supremacy is a Bigger Problem than Antisemitism
Fifteen months into Israel’s holocaust some leftists continue to uphold Jewish supremacy. Many supposedly on the side of humanity continue to boost an ideological stick enabling a genocide, authoritarianism and a movement promoting “mass deportation”. Recently Caitlin Johnstone posted: “First end the active genocide, THEN talk to me about your concerns regarding a rise in […]
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Zionism: In the Words of the Leading Zionists and their Allies
Nearly all of these quotes are gathered from the chapter epigraphs in the book, M. Shahid Alam, Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism (Springer: 2008). A few of the quotes are from non-Zionists. The sources for most these quotes can be found in this book. Chosenness “Israel is not another example of the species […]
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Are Israeli Soldiers’ Lives Really Worth More than Gaza Kids?
Elizabeth May believes the memory of Jews killed in Europe eight decades ago is more important than living Palestinians. The Canadian Green leader’s Jewish supremacism is a stain on her legacy, the party and Canadian left. Last week supporters of Maccabi Tel Aviv FC yelled racist slogans, ripped Palestinian flags, destroyed taxis and beat individuals […]
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Zionism Pursues Its Attempted Hold-up on Jews the World over
The Conseil représentatif des institutions juives de France (CRIF), French Zionist Consistory, and their members and allies called for a demonstration on Sunday 6 October in the following terms: “Next Sunday 6 October, with a group of Zionist institutions, community organizations and citizen groups, we are organizing a large scale demonstration at Paris; we will […]
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At what point are we permitted to…?

Five questions, and a sixth: 1. At what point does it become irresponsible not to compare Israel’s slaughter of the Palestinian people with the genocide westerners know best: the Nazi Holocaust? 2. At what point does shielding Israel from the revulsion its actions naturally inspire not turn into complicity? 3. At what point should western […]
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Zionism: Managing Its Demise

It is increasingly becoming clear–even to some Western observers—that the Zionist project has run its course. It had an extraordinary run, but it has now reached the end of its settler-colonial track. The creation of this exclusionary settler-colonial Jewish state was a historical anomaly, among the greatest blunders of Western civilization in the twentieth century. […]
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Solidarity as a Monolith of Love against Zionist Evil
Jews are not a monolith. There are plenty of Jews who abhor the racism and violence of the Zionist faction of Jewry. Yet, many uninformed people consider Zionism to express the ethos of Jewishness. And it is clear that Israeli Jews are overwhelmingly supportive of Zionism. (See “Israeli Views of the Israel-Hamas War, “Polls Show […]
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Judaism is a Religion, Not an Ethnicity
I could convert to Judaism, says George, but how would that give me the right to occupy land in Palestine? The post Judaism is a Religion, Not an Ethnicity first appeared on Dissident Voice.