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Ending the ‘Passionate Attachment’
Allies in the Medieval-Modern Struggle In his farewell address in 1796, George Washington warned against a “passionate attachment” or “inveterate hatred” toward any nation. Some Americans were impassioned about revolutionary France. Within a few years, agents of foreign minister Talleyrand … Continue reading
Posted in 2014
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Perry Anderson on the Left and the ‘Israel lobby’
Perry Anderson, the leading Marxist scholar of the day, confounds the vulgar Marxism that US policy is about “oil” and “profits”, a view that would reduce Nazism to a matter of Russian oil and wheat. These excerpts are followed by … Continue reading
Posted in Timeless
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Theses on Zionism
by Harry Clark On CounterPunch January 17, 2014 In response to Joseph Massad’s “Theses on Zionism” in Electronic Intifada on December 9, 2013. On this site
Posted in 2013
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Reboot the Left on Palestine
What is to be done? Worldwide, it is Israel Apartheid Week, 2013, a worthy expression of solidarity with the Palestinians suffering under Israel’s occupation of the territories it conquered in the June, 1967 war. However, the leading lights of the … Continue reading
Posted in 2013
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Noam Chomsky and BDS: the ‘responsibility of intellectuals?’
Noam Chomsky’s critique of the boycott/divestment/sanctions movement against Israel, in solidarity with the Palestinian people, attracted wide attention. The Nation, where his article appeared, published five responses, to which Chomsky responded, and at least five appeared independently. Chomsky’s views were … Continue reading
Posted in 2015
Tagged BDS, Noam Chomsky, question of palestine
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The End of Modern Jewish History
The Jewish state of Israel and the organized Jewish communities abroad have constituted the Zionist Jewish people, whose aggrandizement has replaced liberalism as the Jewish social principle. This outlook has also deeply affected the Jewish left, who have abandoned the … Continue reading
Posted in 2014
Tagged question of palestine, the end of modern jewish history
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No Cockburn, No Voice
Alexander Cockburn was probably the most distinguished left journalist in his adopted land. He was fortified by his father Claud’s career in British journalism and the Communist Party, above all in the crucible of the late 1930s, when the British … Continue reading
Posted in 2012
Tagged alexander cockburn, boston phoenix, counterpunch, village voice
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Liberal Citizenship, not ‘Jewish Identity’
An abiding feature of the Palestine question in the United States since 1967 has been a “Jewish left,” which combines Jewish affirmation with criticism of Israel’s occupation of the territories it conquered in that war. A 1973 anthology of writings … Continue reading
Posted in 2012
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Move Over, AIPAC
The annual conference of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee took place in Washington the weekend of May 21-22 and the following week. As usual, the top of the federal government paid tribute. President Obama addressed the 7,000 strong delegates, and … Continue reading
Posted in 2011
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When Palestine Was at Stake
The future of Palestine was at stake in the 1940s, and the fundamental clash of interests, between Zionist Jews and Palestinian Arabs, was also a fundamental clash of principles. The differences are shown by a comparison of the liberal Arab … Continue reading
Posted in 2011
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The question of Palestine 