As the US police become "Israelized," the American people become "Palestinianized."
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A Feeling of Resurgence on 72nd Nakba Day | Jeff Halper
No one wants to see an oppressive apartheid regime strengthened and expanded, with all the more suffering we can expect.
Read More »Fatal Disconnect | Jeff Halper
Too often we have to choose between being an academic and being an activist. It's a fatal disconnect for radical political change.
Read More »The ‘two-state solution’ only ever meant a big Israel ruling over a Palestinian bantustan. Let it go | Jeff Halper via Haaretz.com
We want a way out of political Zionism’s dead end, and a return to the cultural Zionism of Ben-Yehuda, Henrietta Szold, Ahad Ha-am, Judah Magnes and Martin Buber that envisioned a Hebrew people living together with their Palestinian neighbors.
Read More »Casting Iran as the enemy serves to deflect attention | Jeff Halper
Casting Iran as the enemy serves to deflect attention from Israel's occupation, Saudi terrorism and global destabilization, the role of arms salesmen and the anti-colonial struggles of the region's peoples, including the Iranians.
Read More »Will the Powerful be Held Accountable for their Actions? | Jeff Halper
'Israel has established a brutal, violent, unjust and illegal apartheid reality -- and then denies with great self-righteousness that it cannot be held accountable.'
Read More »For Palestinians the Irrelevancy of International Law | Jeff Halper
The American “recognition” of Israeli settlements are not “inconsistent with international law” demonstrates nothing more dramatic than the bankruptcy of American foreign policy — though in fact that previous American governments took virtually the same position: they may have recognized the settlements’ illegality under international law, but de facto ignored it and allowed Israel to confiscate Palestinian lands, build its ...
Read More »The Allure, and Danger, of Conspiracy Theories | Jeff Halper
This article (https://thebulwark.com/this-is-what-reality-looks-like-from-inside-trump-world) is great, a prime examination of conspiracy theory — super-neat, unverifiable, paranoid, and unfortunately at work at the highest levels of our government, media and corporate life. And also far beyond: I can’t begin to tell you how many of my fb friends buy into one conspiracy theory or another. I suppose its inevitable. The world has ...
Read More »Netanyahu is Out | Jeff Halper
A few quick take-aways from yesterday's election in Israel ....
Read More »Benny Morris Jumps from Facts to Unrelated Opinions | Jeff Halper
The struggle for justice in Palestine involves layers on layers of convoluted hasbara, making it very hard to fight ....
Read More »Analyzing What Marc Lamont Hill Said | Jeff Halper
I would hold up Maha's article as a model of how we should all address complex and even polarizing issues.
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