September 9, 2010



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The Open Society and Its Critics: Minorities and Political Lobbying in the United States

MOHSIN HAMID IS an unlikely point of entry into the flawed assumptions of John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt. After all, Hamid, a British citizen born in Pakistan, is the author of an acclaimed novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, which tells the story of a Pakistani domiciled in the United ...

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Fragments from the Archives

The Zionist Idea, edited by the late Arthur Hertzberg, is perhaps the best introduction to the classic texts of the Zionist movement. Taken together, the writings in this volume demonstrate the extraordinary diversity of Zionist thought - different writers in different geographical locations at different times, all articulating different ...

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Europe and Israel: Worlds Apart?

ASSESSING EUROPE'S RELATIONSHIP WITH ISRAEL involves a barrage of questions. What do we mean by "Europe?" Are we talking about the European Union? Are we talking about the member states? If so, which ones? Do we judge the relationship with Israel by what is said in Madrid, to take one example, or Warsaw, to take another? ...

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Excluding Israelis: An Intellectual Anatomy of the Academic Boycott

ON 31 MAY 2007, THE University and College Union (UCU) - the academics' union in the UK - passed a motion at its annual conference instructing its executive to circulate a call for a boycott of Israeli universities, and to organize a UK-wide tour of branches by Palestinian academics to discuss this. ...

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Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism: Decoding the Relationship

The relationship between anti-Zionism and antisemitism has been endlessly debated. Below, two experts on the subject offer a framework for thinking about this issue. In an excerpt from his book Antisemitism Today, Kenneth S. Stern examines how the logic of anti-Zionism frequently reflects the prejudices of antisemitism. And in an ...

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Jewish Anti-Zionism Unravelled: The Morality of Vanity (Part 1)

CONTEMPORARY JEWISH ANTI-ZIONISM is most generously to be interpreted as occupying a position, or a set of positions, within a new Jewish politics. Modern Jewish politics was a response to, and an attempt to address, the "Jewish Question"; contemporary Jewish politics is a response to, and an attempt to address, the "Israel Question." ...

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Conspiracies and Colonialism

Back in February 1984, A.Q. Khan, the self-styled father of Pakistan's nuclear program, made a phone call to the editor of a major Pakistani newspaper. Khan had a simple message to convey. "The Islamic bomb," he told the editor, "is a figment of the Zionist mind." Of course, the ...

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The Ideological Foundations of the Boycott Campaign Against Israel

Recent discussion regarding the ideological basis for a boycott of Israel, whether in academia or in response to the campaign for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) forcefully promoted by a network of Palestinian and international NGOs, has concentrated upon two interrelated issues: first, the thematic overlap between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism; and secondly, the ...

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