In response to my piece at the Daily beast today, the noted UK activist and author, Ben White, asked me, on Twitter, what I meant by the following sentence: “Yousef (Munayyer) implied that the only way to recognize Palestinian rights is to allow each refugee and their descendants to choose whether and where, within all of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Right of Return’
Unfair to Whom?
Posted in Refugees, Zionism, tagged Anti-Zionism, BDS, Daily Beast, human rights, international law, Israel, Jerusalem, Justice, Middle east, One-State Solution, Open Zion, Palestinian Refugees, Peter beinart, pro-Israel, Right of Return, Two-state solution, United Nations, West Bank on April 24, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Daily Beast article
Posted in Refugees, Zionism, tagged Anti-Zionism, BDS, Daily Beast, human rights, international law, Israel, Jerusalem, Justice, Middle east, One-State Solution, Open Zion, Palestinian Refugees, Peter beinart, pro-Israel, Right of Return, Two-state solution, United Nations, West Bank on April 24, 2012 | 1 Comment »
My first piece for Open Zion, Peter Beinart’s blog at The Daily Beast, is live. It addresses the false accusation that one cannot be Zionist and also hold to liberal values, using the question of Palestinian refugees as the way to explore this question. Since i don’t identify as a Zionist, I think this makes [...]
Israel’s Troubled Conscience
Posted in Israel, Refugees, tagged Akiva Eldar, AlanDershowitz, Armenian Genocide, Berkeley, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, Joan Peters, John F. Kennedy, Native Americans, New York, Palestine, Refugees, Right of Return, S. Yizhar, Tel Aviv, United States, USSR on January 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In my latest piece for Souciant, I look at the very wide gap between Israel’s collective stance on the Palestinian Nakba and the understanding of events most Israelis have of that piece of history. It has been my experience that, while the average American, Jewish or not, is quite ignorant of the facts surrounding the [...]
Most Israelis Favour a Nuclear-Free Middle East, Poll Shows
Posted in Iran, Israel, tagged democracy, human rights, Iran, Israel, Jewish State, Middle east, Netanyahu, nuclear, Obama, Palestinians, Right of Return, Two-state solution on December 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My latest piece of reporting for IPS News is about a pair of polls released yesterday examining the views of Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel on a range of subjects. Some of the results might surprise you.
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