january 08, 2009
New on the Z Word Blog
Listen to Z Word editor Ben Cohen in a new radio debate on the Gaza conflict; why the continuation of the Gaza conflict is inevitable; and much more besides.
Victim Competition: Antisemitism and the Austrian Left
DURING
THE SEPTEMBER 2008 parliamentary elections, the Austrian Social Democratic
Party (SPÖ) lost many of its traditional voters, yet still emerged as the
biggest single party. Any understanding of the continuing hold of the SPÖ needs
to begin with the development of Austrian society after the country's liberation
by the Allies in spring 1945, and ...
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False Confessions: How Anti-Zionists Incriminate Zionism
THE WISH TO HAVE bad Jews confess, to catch them owning up to their
mysterious, murderous crimes, lies behind the relentless torturing of them in
medieval legal proceedings to "confess correctly," and the fictions of voluntary and involuntary Jewish admission
and self-condemnation that litter the history of antisemitism. The Protocols
are merely the most ...
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Arguments: Against The "One State Solution"
WITH THESE SELECTIONS from the Z Word blog, we inaugurate a new and
occasional series entitled Arguments.
The debate generated by the Middle East
conflict is necessarily broad, with the result that it becomes invoked on
everything from the price of oil to academic freedom; from tackling hate crime
to the crisis of the left. ...
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