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Palestine: A Policy of Deliberate Blindness

by Sophia September 2, 2007

By Régis Debray, Le Monde Diplomatique Foreword from the journal: Last year President Jacques Chirac asked Régis Debray to study the situation in the Middle East. On 15 January 2007 Debray sent the French authorities the following document on Palestine. It is an important key to understanding a long policy drift whose results are now [...]

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Vote for an Academic Boycott of Israel

by Sophia July 25, 2007

The British Medical Journal has featured two opinions on the subject, one for and one against, and is allowing its readers online, either academics or members of the public, to vote. Go to this page. Scroll down a bit and you can find the icon to click on to participate in the vote. Once you [...]

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A Zionist Politician Looses Faith In The Future

by Sophia July 24, 2007

From the New Yorker’s David Remnick: The Apostate Excerpts: Short of being Prime Minister, Burg could not be higher in the Zionist establishment. His father was a Cabinet minister for nearly four decades, serving under Prime Ministers from David Ben-Gurion to Shimon Peres. In addition to a decade-long career in the Knesset, including four years [...]

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On Israel, Zionism, the Memory of the Shoah, and the use of the word “Jew”

by Sophia July 19, 2007

French philosopher Alain Badiou gave this interview to Le Monde last week. The original title was about the crisis of the intellectual Left. While the first two questions focused on the crisis of the French Left, most of the interview was about the particularisms lying at the foundations of Israel as a Jewish only state. [...]

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