September 8, 2010



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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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Our Mission

Z Word is an online journal dedicated to exploring the moral, philosophical, political and historical issues arising from the conflicts in the Middle East, particularly - although not exclusively - as they relate to the issues of Zionism, anti-Zionism and antisemitism. In recent years the public debate on issues relating to Zionism has ...

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When ‘Zionist’ Meant ‘Jew’: Revisiting the 1968 Events in Poland

THE 1968 STATE SPONSORED anti-Zionist campaign in Poland demonstrates how easily anti-Zionist rhetoric slips into open antisemitism. It is also a striking example of how a supposedly internationalist anti-imperialist movement is prone to hateful manipulation that, in fact, has very little to do with the Middle East. The language ...

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Franchising

ON A COLD NIGHT IN Johannesburg last year, a bus pulled up outside the American consulate. It was the 40th anniversary of the Six Day War in the Middle East-June being a winter month in South Africa-and several dozen activists planned to mark the occasion by protesting U.S. support for "Apartheid Israel." The ...

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A Liberal in Jerusalem: The Paradoxes of Sari Nusseibeh

THE FIFTEEN MINUTE DRIVE between west Jerusalem and Sari Nusseibeh's office at Al-Quds University in east Jerusalem is a trip into the heart of a paradox, or rather a number of them. To begin with, there is the municipal paradox of a divided city where the obvious divisions can camouflage as strange forms of ...

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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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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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