September 8, 2010



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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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Rafal Pankowski

Rafal Pankowski is the author of Neo-Fascism in Western Europe (Polish Academy of Sciences: 1998) and Racism and Popular Culture (Trio, Warsaw: 2006).

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On Zionism

The term "Zionism" draws more attention (and more fire) in our own time than when the movement first emerged, in Europe, at the end of the nineteenth century. This section looks at the key issues underlying the Z Word. Z Word editor Ben Cohen examines the opprobrium which has ...

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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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Islamism Against Zionism: Muslim Identity and the Middle East Conflict

FOR THE CASUAL OBSERVER looking to capture Islamist attitudes towards Zionism and Israel, there are few spectacles better than Al Quds Day. Instituted by Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, the year of the Islamic Revolution, and held on the last Friday during the month of Ramadan, the ...

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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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Jewish Anti-Zionism Unravelled: Questioning Antisemitism (Part 2)

THE FIRST PART OF this essay ended with a distinction between the Israeli and Diaspora Jewish anti-Zionist perspectives. The writings of Akiva Orr and Uri Davis may be read as representative of the former perspective, and the writings of Jacqueline Rose as representative of the latter perspective. There are, of course, others who could ...

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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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