From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ghada Karmi | Al-Ahram Weekly | 22-28 January 2004 Whatever the discursive niceties it is important to realise that Israel is Zionist, and that Zionism displaces and kills, writes Ghada Karmi* For those who have forgotten or never understood what Zionism is about two recently published pieces will make salutary reading. The first is an interview with the Israeli historian, Benny Morris, published in the Israeli daily Haaretz on 4 January.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Brian Whitaker | The Guardian | 19 January 2004 Jewish activists opposing the Israeli government's policies face intimidation and harassment via email and on the internet. Brian Whitaker reports Deborah Fink is a singer and music teacher living in London. She is also Jewish. Last month, out of the blue, she received a deluge of hateful emails - more than 150 in the space of a week.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Salman Abu Sitta | Al-Ahram Weekly | January 2004 The Geneva Accord was long ago scripted by Israeli Military Intelligence, writes Salman Abu Sitta* The orchestrated media blitz, replete with approving noises made by those European and Arab politicians eager to be rid of Palestinian refugees, conveniently ignored the fact that the understanding reached between some Palestinians and Israelis on the shores of the Dead Sea, later dignified with the name Geneva Accord, is in essence no more than the blueprint produced by the Israeli intelligence service to "
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Asmi Bishara |Al-Ahram Weekly | 25-31 December 2003 From the soap opera trial of O J Simpson to Herzliya: Azmi Bishara traces the death of the liberal Jew When a liberal Harvard University law professor defended Orenthal James Simpson, commonly known as "OJ", on the grounds of "reasonable doubt," it must have reminded many of the line from Shakespeare's Henry VI (Part 2, IV, ii): "
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Arthur Nelsen | Aljazeera.net | 9 January 2004 Shock waves from the continuing carnage in the Middle East are increasingly dividing the Jewish diaspora, and the rifts are becoming ugly. Aljazeera.net has uncovered evidence of an anti-Semitic hate mail campaign against Jewish peace activists in London, which involves rabbis and at least one respected Israeli literary figure. Diaspora Jewish communities have traditionally rallied round Israel in times of crisis.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Azmi Beshara | Al-Ahram Weekly | 8-14 January 2004 Land is at the heart of the drama unfolding in Palestine. But it is not the only thing, argues Azmi Beshara Rhetoric about demography so dominates Israel's political discourse that one might be tempted to assume that Israel has abandoned its preferred designation as the Jewish democratic state in favour of the Jewish demographic state. The condition has reached the stage where it might be diagnosed as an advanced case of demographomania.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Brian Klug | The Nation | February 2, 2004 In 1879 the German journalist Wilhelm Marr, a former socialist and anarchist, founded an organization that was novel in two ways. It was the first political party based on a platform of hostility to Jews. And it introduced the world to a new word: "anti-Semite." Marr was an atheist, and the Antisemiten-Liga (League of Anti-Semites) was hostile to Jews on the secular grounds that they are an alien "
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Anne Gwynne | 14 January 2004 Anne Gwynne writes to The Guardian in response to Jonathan Spyer’s article (14/01/04) In an article entitled “Israel’s Demographic Time Bomb” by Jonathan Spyer, formerly Adviser to the Government of Ariel Sharon, The Guardian (14/01/04) ran this heading, ‘Jews risk becoming a minority in their own land’ (well, their stolen land – they have no real history here – the Golden Age of Jews lasted only, at most fifty years, under David, from 975 to 925 BC).
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ilan Pappe | London Review of Books, Volume 25, No. 1 | January 2004 Even though we live in an age of intensive and intrusive media coverage, TV viewers in Israel were lucky to catch a glimpse of the meetings that produced the Geneva Accord. The clip we watched in November showed a group of well- known Israeli writers and peaceniks shouting at a group of not so well-known and rather cowed Palestinians, most of them officials of the Palestinian Authority.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Paul de Rooij | Dissident Voice | 22 December 2003 Review of The Politics of Anti-Semitism, edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair (AK Press, 2003) There's no more explosive topic in American public life today than the issue of Israel, its treatment of the Palestinians and its influence on American politics. Yet the topic is one that is so hedged with anxiety, fury and fear that honest discussion is often impossible.