Normalize This! Remi Kanazi
New Yorker of Palestinian descendant Remi Kanazi, lays down the methods and words Israel has used consistently to insist that its military occupation and confiscation of land in occupied Palestine and that crimes committed by Israeli military in Gaza can be normalized: washed away by simply talking peace or forming joint Palestinian Israeli cooperation projects while Israel continues to go against peaces through brutal actions. Kanazi calls it Poetic Injustice.What Comes Next? A Forum on the end of the Two State Paradigm
A thought provoking and necessary discussions on the possibilities and just solutions for forming a single Democratic state in Israel Palestine. This is by no means a new idea. It has been around long before 1948
The Forgotten Jewish anti Zionism left
breaking media monopoly on Israel Palestine
Israel government and society have always feared the day the world would be unified in their calls for an end to illegal Israeli military occupation of Palestine, respecting the rights of the Palestinian refugees and right to self determination. The mainstream media pundits know they can no longer keep the public in the dark on what Israel has been doing to the Palestinians for the past 75 years, while acting as a bully to its neighbors. The current popular Palestine protests in the U.S. and the rest of the world, has given Israel, it’s staunchest allies the U.S. and Europe and a few Asian and African countries more fuel to get back its dominate voice and media control of blasting the Israeli narrative and only showcasing it as a means to fight back against the world’s pro Palestine perspective and deeper analysis of what is actually happening on the ground in the occupied territories. for Israel’s sake to shake up the media story that had finally begun to listen to Palestinian voices beyond politics, humanize and understand the Palestinian people, challenge Israeli exceptionalism and hear how brutal Israeli occupation actually is.The major news networks CNN, BBC, DW, France24, MSNBC can’t scare protesters, sympathizers, supporters and conscious objects for Palestine with shouts and accusations of anti semitism, anti Jewish hatred and name calling “Hamas sympathizer” “terrorist supporter” calling anyone who challenges Israel’s actions, policies, and questions the enduring Zionist founding myth of modern Israel, a nazi both directly and indirectly. The whole world can see past the Israeli Hasbara and media PR fluff that has broadcast the last 75 years that Israel is not just the Middle East’s only democracy but it is a righteous country surrounded by hordes of enemies who are existential threats to it and its identity as a Jewish state. This repeated and neatly packaged view of Israel has been challenged by everyone through various websites, in-depth analyses, books, articles and voices extensively. Over the past decades, more independent news channels, podcasts, radio stations have flourished online on its own websites and social media platforms where most of the public are getting their news and are turning away from the mainstream media that once had a large monopoly on breaking news and analysis. Israeli Hasbara machine and Israel first media channels and supporters are struggling against the independent media, Palestinian voices and eyewitness accounts, documentaries, discussions, online radio and real time social media videos. The Israel lobby and Hasbara machine have succeeded for years in censoring News and information that showed the world the truth on occupied Palestine and Palestinian history and identity that broke away from the David and Goliath metaphor where Israel is david and Palestinians, Arabs and Iran are Goliaths. One aspect of Israeli society and history that is sideline is Israeli racism against Palestinians, Arab Jews aka Mizrahi Jews, African Israelis ie Ethiopian, South Sudanese, Eritrean, etc. Israeli racism against non European Jews and even Christians in Israel will come as a shock to most Israel first supporters who have assumed for years that Israel is a secular, tolerant, liberal and welcoming Western nation sandwich in the Middle East. The society and culture is European. Israel often portrays itself in the global media as a melting pot nation similiar to the United States and Canada that resembles a real life ad from United Colors of Bennetton. On the surface, this media image of Israel being welcoming to all peoples and religions holds water, but the reality for the diverse ethnic groups on the ground is a different story. Often unknown stories of Ethiopians, Palestinians, Mizrahis fighting against long standing stereotypes, orientalist views and discriminatory policies that favor Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe over Mizrahi and African Jews and Christians. As a side note: Ashkenazi Jews are seen as the face of Israel, Jewish people and Judiasm and usually the first Jewish faces people will think of when Jews come to mind.
The Israeli fear also extends the creation of a Palestinian state would end the Israeli ultra nationalist and religious dream of keeping illegal Israeli settlements/colonies as part of Tel Aviv’s “facts on the ground” to keep Jude’s and Samaria as Israel refers to the whole of for West Bank, using biblical and Torah justification for not allowing an independent Palestine.
Updates on Palestine
Zeiad Abbas: Western Media has abandoned Palestine
Gazan fisherman finds rare bronze statue of Greek god Apollo
Planned Israeli annexation of Jordan Valley?
Genetics and Zionist claims to Palestine
Zionism and Israel: An Old Alliance of bigotry and colonialism
Fire in the house: The French Left, Anti Zionism and the critique of Israel
Israeli government has continued with its plans to ethnically cleanse and removed 1948 displaced Palestinian Bedouin families and their descendants from their villages across the Negev desert. Palestinian Bedouins like their countrymen in Gaza, West Bank, Jerusalem and spread across the Diapora have not been spared from collective punishment or Israeli military force. The Bedouins were displaced from their original hometowns and homeland through forced expulsions and terrorizing force by the Haganah and Zionist forces who rushed to create the new state of Israel atop Palestine in 1948. During 1940s-50s and continuing into the 1967 war, Bedouin families had their villages (unrecognized by the Israeli government to this day) demolished by Israeli government forces in the Negev and other Palestinian towns under occupation and within Israel itself.
Palestinians fight to save villages from Israeli seperation wall
Withdrawl of Prawar Plan a victory for Palestinians in Israel
Israel razes homes of Palestinians during Worst winter yet
Push to recruit Arab Christians into Israeli Army
8 questions Palestinian Queers are tired of hearing
In Israel, Canada embraces racism it abolished in its homeland
The UN's role in creating the Israeli Palestinian conflict
Visualizing Palestine today
Tel Aviv-Jaffa "City for Us All"
Emanicipatory municipal politics where Palestinians and Mizhrahi Jews (Arab Jews from Middle East and North Africa) come together to fight a common enemy forced evictions from their homes in Tel Aviv-Jaffa by Israeli municipal authorities.
Hares Boys: Israel has tortured and imprisoned five Palestinian children for life by the Israeli military for the "crime" of throwing stones during a car accident involving Israeli settlers in West Bank. The problem is the boys didn't actually throw any stones and were hit from behind. The Hares boys case echoes the Jim Crow laws during the Apartheid era in the US and the continual laws that send African American children to prison for crimes they did not commit or were innocent of a crime but were still imprisoned. Both actions violate not only local Israeli and American laws but international law on rights of children and citizens.
Where is Palestine's Mandela
Migration in Israel
Despite being Jews or Pro-Israel and even Christian Zionists, African migrants, often receive a cold reception in Israel
African migrants mainly from South Sudan, Darfur (Sudan), Ethiopia and Eritrea have crisscrossed thousands of miles from their homelands through Egypt and the Sinai to reach Israel. In addition to the migrants, there are thousands of Israelis of Ethiopian and African descendant living in Israel who are often overlooked when images of Israel are portrayed around the world. Many migrants similar to their countrymen racing to Europe or the United States, are escaping persecution, war or searching for safety, better economic opportunities and stability. Despite being a signatory to the UN laws and international charters on protecting refugees and asylum, Israel has consistently discriminated against African migrants arriving in the country. Israeli media uses stereotypes and racist language to describe Sudanese, Eritrean and Ethiipian migrants as infiltrators, threatening invaders, diseased and treating the migrants as enemies within similar to Israeli society's views of Palestinians. Africans (both documented and undocumented) are hampered and denied access to jobs, decent housing or quality schools across Israel. Native born African Israelis face insults by school authorities, healthcare discrimination, indifferent government beaucracy, and occasionally meant to feel unwelcome in wider society. Ironically South Sudan and Ethiopia have strong diplomatic and cultural ties to Israel. Both countries and respective leaders regard Israel as one of their strongest allies in the Middle East. Both have security pacts with Israeli military even going out of their way to do business and trade (military and logistic wise) with Israel despite Israelis' treatment toward South Sudanese or Ethiopians within the Middle's East's "only Democracy". Eritrea is in the middle. Even Ethiopian Jews arriving in the country face outright discrimination and mob like racism from fellow European Jews from around the world who are granted automatic citizenship. Most migrants are quick to be deported if found to be illegal or if they break the smallest of laws. For migrants arrested by Israeli police, they are held in detention camps in the Negev desert. These migrants have yet to reach out to connect with Palestinians on fighting Zionist racism as both peoples have suffered from the same methods of control. The only difference is migrants aren't facing military violence but police and state violence and discriminatory policies that Israeli Jews living in other countries would protest against. No longer taking abuse silently, some tens of thousands of Ethiopian, Sudanese and Eritrean migrants took to the streets in Tel Aviv to protest racism and discrimination in a country who takes discrimination against its own self seriously.Israel's New Racism: Discrimination against African migrants
It is impossible to be Israeli? According to Israeli High Court the Israeli nationality does not exist in Israel
Electronic Intifada's articles on Mizrahi Jews
Mizrahi Jews reach out to the Arab World
Divide and Rule: Spineless Bookkeeping: Using Mizrahi Jews as pawns against Palestinian refugees
Hunting identity: Jewish fixation on genes
A reflection how DNA and genetics also plays unknown yet interesting role in Israel-Palestine conflict
Zionist Crimes against Jews
Zionist crimes against Christians
Israeli report on Muhammad Al Dura case is vengeful and surreal but treated as gospel
Jerusalem Christians fearful of the future
The oldest Christian population in the world fears that Israeli government's insistence on making Jerusalem a capital of Israel (for eternity, no joke), Judaizing Jerusalem at the expense of erasing Palestinian identity of the city and announcing the Jerusalem belongs to the Jewish people while brush aside claims made by Palestinian Muslims and Christians with long history in the city, has pushed and dwindled the Palestinian and Armenian Christians in Jerusalem.
Why I won't fly the Israeli flag on Independence day: Israelis have long fought against the continual occupation of Palestine and Israel's discirminatory treatment of Palestinians. They have joined protests with Palestinians and taught Israeli youth and wider society the truth about the brutality of Israeli control over Palestinians and a non sugar coated view of the causes of wars in the Middle East. For their efforts against the Israeli security and military state, they have been drowned out by the pro military, defense and paranoid anti terrorism Israelis who insists that apartheid and military force will keep the country safe.
Israeli settlers occupy Monasty rise Israeli flag
The Infrastructure of Israeli Settler Colonialism
Environmentalist reach out to Palestinian schoolchildren to clean up Jerusalem's holy valley
London Court repudiates Zionist abuse of Anti-Semetism charge against critics of Israel and its policies
Not enough water in the West Bank:
Water facts in West Bank
Palestinians mark 46 yrs of Naksa 1967 Six Day War
Return to Iqrit: Descendants of the Palestinians forced to flee the village of Iqrit are turning the Right of Return into a reality by slowly reclaiming its land.
Gaza Students to learn Hebrew
Gazans learn "Language of the Occupier"
Israelis humiliating discrimination against Arab Jews within and out of Israel read here
When the cameraman confronts a gunwielding soldier
Israel's Next War
Could a potential Civil War be brewing in Israel between the ultra right wing, conservative settlers and Zionist nationalists and secular Israelis?Settler violence against Palestinians and olive trees in occupied Palestine...Read more.
10/02/08
Children gassed at Dayton, Ohio mosque during Ramadan prayers, police says its not a hate crime!...Read more.I want to tell the World a story
Israeli Occupation Archives
Redeeming the land: Kibbitznik to Hilltop Youth, Changing faces of Zionist colonialism
Inside Occupied Hebron with Breaking the Siege's Yehuda Shaul
Colonizing project built on lies
Embarrassment of the Wretched
Who are we?
PITCHER.
Because of increasing continual Israeli settler violence in Palestine-Israel and recent war & massacres in Gaza of more than 400 children and 600+women and men Ignoring occupation was born. It is an offshoot website of Pitcher (Pundits ignoring human, civil and essential rights) Ignoring Occupation has created a list of the pundits, organizations, politicos, video games and individuals who continue to ignore the 41-year-old occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem which began during the Six Day war in 1967 when Israel captured and conquered the now occupied Palestinian territories from Jordan and Egypt, Golan Heights from Syria and Sheba Farms from Lebanon. The Sinai was also conquered by Israel and illegal settlements were built across the peninsula as rightwing Zionist and religious groups within Israel placed pressure on governments to promote the growing Israeli Settlement Movement in the early 1970s spearheaded by the hardline Gush Emunimum in 1972. Ignoring Occupation looks at the Israeli occupation, Palestinian culture, pundits support for rightwing policies and its consequences on the lives of Palestinians as a peace deal seems unreachable this year. From campus organizations to news pundits dehumanization of the Muslims world and countries are ignored while stereotypes about Arabs and Africans persist. Dehumanization of Palestinians and Iraqis justify Israel and America's presence in the occupied Palestinian territories, occupied Iraq or support illegal settlements (International Law states no occupying power shall move its own citizens to occupied territory) and increasing settler violence against Palestinians, their olive orchards & farmlands and peace organizations.
It also leads to retaliation by terrorists groups (or militant groups depending on one's view) through rocket fire targeting Israeli cities i.e. Sredrot bordering Gaza Strip suffocating and dying under Israel's and U.S. backed siege after Palestinins elected Hamas to the Palestinin government in 2006 presidential elections across occupied Palestine. The reason for electing Hamas was cited by ordinary Palestinians time and time again but ignored by the pundits and mainstream media, corruption within the long ruling Fatah government and party. Despite Democracy, ordinary Palestinians have bore the brunt of Hamas' election alongside Israelis bearing the brunt of rocket fire from Gaza. Ignoring Occupation commends the rocketfire on Israel but also condemns the Israeli-U.S. supported Siege against innoncent Gazans men, women and children. Right to Education for Palestinian children who are denied freedom of movement and basic access to their schools and universities because of the 600+ roadblocks and checkpoints. This is an ongoing project and hopefully its not censored...
Zion of the Times
Zionism originally began as a national movement under Austrian journalist Theodore Herzl
in the late 19th century to promote a "national homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine." The idea of a homeland for the Jewish people began out of the long and abetting history of antisemitism across Europe from Russia to England and Ireland from the time of Christ to now. From Ancient Rome until Herzl's day, Europe's large Jewish community had experienced negative stereotypes, pogroms, massacres, confrontation between its gentile neighbors and dehumanization of Jews in European society, daily life and culture.
Negative and derogatory stereotypes from Europe's Medieval Era portraying Jews as money launders, Christ killers and controlling the world fueled paranoia, hatred led to irrational violence against them by their Christian and pagan neighbors with occurring consequences today. The Crusades (1066-1245 AD) exacerbated antisemitism promoting paranoia among ordinary people of society often encouraged by their kings, queens and dukes, etc who considered Jews enemies within Europe since Jews outside the continent lived across the Islamic world in Egypt, Byzantium (Turkey), Uzbekistan, Iraq (Mesopotamia until 1917), Ethiopia, etc. While Jews experienced antisemitism in Christian Europe prior to the Enlightenment (which didn't halt antisemitism or stereotypes but guaranteed Jews rights)in Spain where they contributed to intellectual life, culture and philosophy during the Dark Ages who blamed Jews for everything from societal ills to financial troubles. This stereotype, "The Jews are responsible for all our ills" promoted by German historian Heinrich von Treitschke would be used again throughout Western history (including the U.S.) by religious leaders such as Martin Luther notorious for promoting antisemitism in many sermons to political leaders the Romanov Dynasty. The most horrific antisemitism, violence and massacres against Jews occurred in Tzarist Russia and Eastern Europe specifically Poland where these ancient reoccurring stereotypes and hatred helped to promote the fear and view that Jews were outsiders in Europe. Despite living across the continent, diversity and promoting culture wider European society for centuries. While Zionism was a response to the Dreyfus Affair. The word Zionism was first coined by Nathan Birnbaum.
Nathan Birnbaum
Nathan Birnbaum's Confessions on Zionism and nationalism's linkage to Judaism
Who is a Jew?
Myth of Palestine as a "Land without a people"
Lord Shaftesbury
The man who some historians regard the inventor of the Zionism's mantra, "Land without a people for a people without a land."
Israel Zangwill
Considered as man who gave a push to Shaftesbury's phrase within the Zionist movement.
Differences between Judaism and Zionism
From Al Jazeera English. A special series examining the origins, violent creation, and modern-day reality of the state of Israel through the stories of individual Israelis. Episode two, Conflict, looks at how the still small Jewish population succeeded in defeating a far larger Palestinian population and asks if a deliberate policy of ethnic cleansing was employed.
Israel-Palestine Conflict part 1: Antisemitism & Zionism
Israel-Palestine Conflict part 2: Ottomans and Palestine:
Looks at the colonization of Palestine by Ottomans and British when the country was modernized and industrialized by Britain during 19th century leading to Jewish immigration in late 1890s and early 1900s.
Israel-Palestine Conflict part 3:Great War and end of Ottomans:
Leads into WWI, Balfour Declaration and Mandate of Palestine
Israel-Palestine Conflict part 4: Britain and MandateThe origins of Palestinian mandate and Haganah are explored
Shlomo Sands, an Israeli historian professor at Tel Aviv University has written a surprisingly best seller that has caused controversy outside of Israel. Inside of Israel ironically it has recieved numerous mentions in press and remained as one of the best sellers throughout the country. His book, "When and how the Jewish people were invented" similar to Ghada Karmi's "Married to another man," seeks to shatter what he considers Zionist myth of a Jewish race, an idea that was born during the rise of Zionism in 19th century at a time when European nationalism was reaching new heights via romantism, colonialism and racism. Sands, a historian of 20th century European history and politics, not the Middle East or ancient Jewish history, argues in his book that Jews are not a race or an ethnic group nor have remained a united people for 3000 years. He also states that Judaism is like every religion that grew through converting followers to Judaism and not from a unique, unchanging ethnicity or culture. He also states today's Israelis are not related to the ancient tribes of Judea and Samaria but were converted from Eastern Europeans (Ashkenazi Jews) living in the Jewish Pale (Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Ukraine) Ashkenazim are most well known Jewish people we think of when Judism and Israel comes to mind. Most of Israel's founding fathers and prime ministers have all been Ashkenazi. And the Mizrahi or Arab Jews North Africa, Spain, etc are less known outside of the history of Al Andalus and have faced discrimination in Israel despite being Jewish. Sands also challenges many historical myths found in the bible about Ancient Israel and its relations to Palestine such as the Exodus, Genesis, Roman enforced exile from Jerusalem 70AD (Sands suggests that only the elites were exiled to Babylon instead of all Israelites), Kingdom of David and Solomon, ( which were two small kingdoms Israel & Judah), and creation of a Khazar Kingdom in Kurdistan. The controversial, but fascinating Israeli best seller book is available in Hebrew, English and French.
Shlomo Sands: Shattering a national mythology
Vanishing the Palestinians, Ghada Karmi
The Spartan Jew & Never Again
Scurrying towards Bethlehem
A nation? What Nation?
Ashkenazi: Israel's European or white identity in Israel
Ashkenazim — Jews of European origin — are Israel’s “white folks.” Like most white people in a multicultural society, they don’t think of themselves in racial or ethnic terms because by now, “aren’t we all Israeli?” Yiddish has been replaced with Hebrew, religion with secularism, tradition with modernity, exile with sovereignty, landlessness with occupation, the shtetl with the settlement, irony with cynicism, and pale girls with dark curls by bleached blonds with a tan. But the paradox of whiteness in Israel is that Ashkenazim aren’t exactly “white folks” historically. A story that begins in the Rhineland and ends in the holy land (or is it the other way around?), "Ashkenaz" looks at whiteness in Israel and wonders: how did the “others” of Europe become the “Europe” of the others?
Israel's renowned left leaning journalist for Ha'aretz Newspaper, Uri Avnery on Israel's eternal and inner struggle to define its Israeli national identity, clinging so ever stubbornly to the Zionist myths and redefine itself as a secular nation for the Israeli people and not the Jewish state or a Nation of Jewish people. Arvnery views Israel's mantra and moto as a Jewish state for the all world's Jews ignores and denies an Israeli national identity and leaves Israelis without a state not define by Zionism or a safe refuge for Jewish people.
Israel's bigger battle ahead: It's National identity
Fate of Israeli Nation
An official history of Palestine-Israel conflict without Zionism and Israel first mantra. A fascinating look at how colonialism gave birth to the West vs. East definition during colonial rule in the Arab world and how that defines Israel's placement in a displaced geography.
From Israeli nation to Jewish state
Israel: Changing the Rules of War & International Law
Special: It was never about Democracy in Iraq
Challenges of Post-Zionism and Mizrahi Jews
Unspoken bible: How the Jews stole Palestine
20 Zionist Myths, from the book Arab and Jew in Canaan Land
Supporting one nation to harm another
Netanyhu and One State Solution
Denying Palestinians' identity, music and cultural heritage. Ignoring the importance of identity to Palestinians, their neighbors Lebanese, Iraqis, Syrians, etc. Overlooking cultural and historical diversity & differences between all 22 Arab countries.
Israel, its friends and allies promote Israeli culture as authentically Middle Eastern and European, "a blend of both worlds." Israel borrows and takes music, fashion, cuisine, coffee and Arabic, from Palestinians, Druze, Turkish, Iraqi & Yemeni Jews, Lebanese, etc. While stating the Palestinians have no culture of their own.
Jerusalem the heart, soul & home of Palestine
Israel, Ethnic Cleansing as State Policy
How Israel stole Palestine's culture, science & Hertiage
Jewish groups offer aid for Palestinians to leave Jerusalem
Against Zionism not Jews
Israeli discussion groups common pitfalls
In many tourist magazines, books and cultural festivals on the Middle East, Asia and Europe in general Israel is presented as ordinary, European and Western country with Middle Eastern roots. An extraordinary country full of breathtaking sights, beauty, diverse cultures, traditions, religion and music! The ads jump out at the curious, cultural, religious/non religious and historical readers. But the attention grabber is always saved for last. Don't forget its the Holy Land and "bible country," homeland of Jesus, King David, Solomon Herod and Land of Milk and Honey for our grandparents and Temple Mount, Wailing (Western) Wall, peace maker and has a strong history of heroic self defense for us. There's no mention of Palestine's historical importance, existence or even references to Palestinians throughout history as though the myth of "a land for a people for a people without a land" were true. Palestine was never an empty land nor did the Palestinians appear recently out of nowhere. The country of Palestine and Palestinian people have always been connected to the Middle East and the rest of the world even before Zionism's birth. On a political note, Israel is heralded as the "Middle East's only democracy in a hostile region surrounded by undemocratic countries." Sabras celebrate the "global village & melting pot" and touristic Potemkin Israel but ignore the erasure, discrimination & racism toward Palestinian-Israelis (Israeli Arabs) and other ethnic minorities such as Ethiopian, Sudanese, Druze, Sephardi/Mizrahi and by right wing settlers, government officials and policies across the country and in some major cities.
Nathan Birnbaum
Nathan Birnbaum's Confessions on Zionism and nationalism's linkage to Judaism
Who is a Jew?
Myth of Palestine as a "Land without a people"
Lord Shaftesbury
The man who some historians regard the inventor of the Zionism's mantra, "Land without a people for a people without a land."
Israel Zangwill
Considered as man who gave a push to Shaftesbury's phrase within the Zionist movement.
Differences between Judaism and Zionism
The Zionist Story: History of Zionism its relations to Palestine-Israel
“Peace Is War: Negotiations, Israeli Settler Colonialism, and the Palestinians” Lecture by Professor Joseph Massad At Austin Community College, Texas
The Promised Land? Part 1
From Al Jazeera English. A special series examining the origins, violent creation, and modern-day reality of the state of Israel through the stories of individual Israelis. Episode two, Conflict, looks at how the still small Jewish population succeeded in defeating a far larger Palestinian population and asks if a deliberate policy of ethnic cleansing was employed.
The Promised Land? Part 2
The Promised Land? Part 3
Zionism's origins in Israel-Palestine Conflict
*A balanced film however...The film refers to Palestinians as Arabs prior to 1948 which was common in many Western countries and official colonial rule. Earlier Palestinian history before 19th century is also overlooked, its a general textbook history of Palestine with emphasize to European and Jewish concerns. It also suggests that Palestinians immigrated to the land in 19th century which was not true...Palestinians (Muslims, Christians and Jews, Armenians, Druze) lived in Palestine for centuries prior to 1900s.Israel-Palestine Conflict part 1: Antisemitism & Zionism
Israel-Palestine Conflict part 2: Ottomans and Palestine:
Looks at the colonization of Palestine by Ottomans and British when the country was modernized and industrialized by Britain during 19th century leading to Jewish immigration in late 1890s and early 1900s.
Israel-Palestine Conflict part 3:Great War and end of Ottomans:
Leads into WWI, Balfour Declaration and Mandate of Palestine
Israel-Palestine Conflict part 4: Britain and MandateThe origins of Palestinian mandate and Haganah are explored
Shlomo Sand: Zionist myth of a Jewish nation
Shlomo Sands, an Israeli historian professor at Tel Aviv University has written a surprisingly best seller that has caused controversy outside of Israel. Inside of Israel ironically it has recieved numerous mentions in press and remained as one of the best sellers throughout the country. His book, "When and how the Jewish people were invented" similar to Ghada Karmi's "Married to another man," seeks to shatter what he considers Zionist myth of a Jewish race, an idea that was born during the rise of Zionism in 19th century at a time when European nationalism was reaching new heights via romantism, colonialism and racism. Sands, a historian of 20th century European history and politics, not the Middle East or ancient Jewish history, argues in his book that Jews are not a race or an ethnic group nor have remained a united people for 3000 years. He also states that Judaism is like every religion that grew through converting followers to Judaism and not from a unique, unchanging ethnicity or culture. He also states today's Israelis are not related to the ancient tribes of Judea and Samaria but were converted from Eastern Europeans (Ashkenazi Jews) living in the Jewish Pale (Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Ukraine) Ashkenazim are most well known Jewish people we think of when Judism and Israel comes to mind. Most of Israel's founding fathers and prime ministers have all been Ashkenazi. And the Mizrahi or Arab Jews North Africa, Spain, etc are less known outside of the history of Al Andalus and have faced discrimination in Israel despite being Jewish. Sands also challenges many historical myths found in the bible about Ancient Israel and its relations to Palestine such as the Exodus, Genesis, Roman enforced exile from Jerusalem 70AD (Sands suggests that only the elites were exiled to Babylon instead of all Israelites), Kingdom of David and Solomon, ( which were two small kingdoms Israel & Judah), and creation of a Khazar Kingdom in Kurdistan. The controversial, but fascinating Israeli best seller book is available in Hebrew, English and French.
Shlomo Sands: Shattering a national mythology
Vanishing the Palestinians, Ghada Karmi
The Spartan Jew & Never Again
Scurrying towards Bethlehem
A nation? What Nation?
Ashkenazi: Israel's European or white identity in Israel
The Other Side of the Story
Al Quds-Jerusalem: Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinian identity and culture across Jerusalem
Ashkenazim — Jews of European origin — are Israel’s “white folks.” Like most white people in a multicultural society, they don’t think of themselves in racial or ethnic terms because by now, “aren’t we all Israeli?” Yiddish has been replaced with Hebrew, religion with secularism, tradition with modernity, exile with sovereignty, landlessness with occupation, the shtetl with the settlement, irony with cynicism, and pale girls with dark curls by bleached blonds with a tan. But the paradox of whiteness in Israel is that Ashkenazim aren’t exactly “white folks” historically. A story that begins in the Rhineland and ends in the holy land (or is it the other way around?), "Ashkenaz" looks at whiteness in Israel and wonders: how did the “others” of Europe become the “Europe” of the others?
Israel's renowned left leaning journalist for Ha'aretz Newspaper, Uri Avnery on Israel's eternal and inner struggle to define its Israeli national identity, clinging so ever stubbornly to the Zionist myths and redefine itself as a secular nation for the Israeli people and not the Jewish state or a Nation of Jewish people. Arvnery views Israel's mantra and moto as a Jewish state for the all world's Jews ignores and denies an Israeli national identity and leaves Israelis without a state not define by Zionism or a safe refuge for Jewish people.
Israel's bigger battle ahead: It's National identity
Fate of Israeli Nation
An official history of Palestine-Israel conflict without Zionism and Israel first mantra. A fascinating look at how colonialism gave birth to the West vs. East definition during colonial rule in the Arab world and how that defines Israel's placement in a displaced geography.
From Israeli nation to Jewish state
Israel: Changing the Rules of War & International Law
Special: It was never about Democracy in Iraq
Challenges of Post-Zionism and Mizrahi Jews
Unspoken bible: How the Jews stole Palestine
20 Zionist Myths, from the book Arab and Jew in Canaan Land
Who's Afraid of the One State solution?
Israel, her allies and Zionists have long feared the idea and possibly of one state covering all of historical Palestine or Israel-Palestine.
For the Palestinians justice for return of refugees will be granted and protected with international consensus if a Democratic state for all
citizens both Israeli and Palestinians were to be announced and made official solution to the conflict and wars. It would also be righting
an unjust wrong as seen by many nations and Arab countries. For many advocacy of a One State solution the continual growth of illegal Israeli settlements
surrounding occupied East Jerusalem and West Bank would make a lot of sense since Israel stubbornly and bluntly refuses to abide by International
law and UN resolutions and has all but failed to return back to its pre-1967 borders to allow for a Palestinian state to grow. For Israelis and its
supporters as sensible and viable as a one state would be, most Zionists and Israel first supporters see it as yet another existential threat
to Israel particularly its national identity as a "Jewish state."
Supporting one nation to harm another
Netanyhu and One State Solution
Falafel & Israeli Culture
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| The legendary falafel sandwich or wrap usually eaten in pita bread. The falafel is eaten across the world |
Denying Palestinians' identity, music and cultural heritage. Ignoring the importance of identity to Palestinians, their neighbors Lebanese, Iraqis, Syrians, etc. Overlooking cultural and historical diversity & differences between all 22 Arab countries.
Israel, its friends and allies promote Israeli culture as authentically Middle Eastern and European, "a blend of both worlds." Israel borrows and takes music, fashion, cuisine, coffee and Arabic, from Palestinians, Druze, Turkish, Iraqi & Yemeni Jews, Lebanese, etc. While stating the Palestinians have no culture of their own.
Jerusalem the heart, soul & home of Palestine
Israel, Ethnic Cleansing as State Policy
How Israel stole Palestine's culture, science & Hertiage
Jewish groups offer aid for Palestinians to leave Jerusalem
Against Zionism not Jews
Israeli discussion groups common pitfalls
In many tourist magazines, books and cultural festivals on the Middle East, Asia and Europe in general Israel is presented as ordinary, European and Western country with Middle Eastern roots. An extraordinary country full of breathtaking sights, beauty, diverse cultures, traditions, religion and music! The ads jump out at the curious, cultural, religious/non religious and historical readers. But the attention grabber is always saved for last. Don't forget its the Holy Land and "bible country," homeland of Jesus, King David, Solomon Herod and Land of Milk and Honey for our grandparents and Temple Mount, Wailing (Western) Wall, peace maker and has a strong history of heroic self defense for us. There's no mention of Palestine's historical importance, existence or even references to Palestinians throughout history as though the myth of "a land for a people for a people without a land" were true. Palestine was never an empty land nor did the Palestinians appear recently out of nowhere. The country of Palestine and Palestinian people have always been connected to the Middle East and the rest of the world even before Zionism's birth. On a political note, Israel is heralded as the "Middle East's only democracy in a hostile region surrounded by undemocratic countries." Sabras celebrate the "global village & melting pot" and touristic Potemkin Israel but ignore the erasure, discrimination & racism toward Palestinian-Israelis (Israeli Arabs) and other ethnic minorities such as Ethiopian, Sudanese, Druze, Sephardi/Mizrahi and by right wing settlers, government officials and policies across the country and in some major cities.
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| Israel's image of itself and the world's image of Israel |
Often overlooked but is now being discussed by Israeli and Palestinian media critics, commentators, analysists, etc is Israeli government's emphasize on Israel being define as a "Jewish state" or a "nation of Jewish people" regardless of origins and not the nation of Israeli people. From Uri Avnery, Gideon Levy both renown journalists and authors and renowned Palestinian-Israeli former Member of Knesset Azmi Bishara have said such recognation will ignore the 61 year old suffering of Palestinians at the hands of Israeli military in occupied Palestinian territories, will continue to deny civil and legal rights to Arab and other non-Jewish citizens and excuses Israel from being held responsible from committing the Nakba in 1948 and later refusing to compensate Palestinian refugees who are unable to return to their original homes within Israel proper because of the state's absentee laws which state that if a property has not been in use for three years it automatically becomes state land regardless if Palestinians have the original land deeds to lands which many refugees do. The definition of Israel as Jewish also ignores the eternal struggle within Israeli society to define itself outside the box of Zionism or have a secular identity and be at peace with its own national identity not define under Judaism.
Palestinians: To exist or not that's the Question
Middle East history in the humble Chick pea
Labanon "protecting hummus and falafel from Israel"
Hummus and falafel are already "Israeli." Now they’re coming for Palestine’s olive oil too
Al Juthoor
Arabic for "Roots." San Francisco based Palestinian dance group preserving traditional Palestinian dance, culture and non violent resistance through debkah the most famous traditional dance across the Arab World and Africa.
Stealing Palestine's culture, identity
Stealing Palestinian history
Using bible to deny Palestinian rights
Israel for kids
Holy Land, Zionist edition
Appropriating Palestinian culture
Palestinian Hertiage
Palestinian culture Facebook
Israel at 60
A celebration of Israel since 1948 ignores the politics between Israel and Palestine. It focuses instead on Israeli culture, literature, Israeli community in San Francisco Bay Area, etc.
Britain & Israel: Christian Zionism & Victorian culture
Fire Bird Dance
Israeli dance troupe from San Francisco promoting Israeli culture and traditions
Cultural Racism & Cultural Misappropriation
Jerusalem Affairs: Marketing the Holy Land
American-Israel Cultural Foundation
Anti-Semitism embedded in British culture
Give Israel Your United Support
Israel government run
Gamla
God's Jewish Warriors: Part 2
God's Jewish Warriors: Part 3
God's Jewish Warriors: Part 4
God's Jewish Warriors: Part 5
God's Jewish Warriors: Part 6
God's Jewish Warriors: Part 7
God's Jewish Warriors: Part 8
God's Jewish Warriors: part 9
God's Jewish Warriors: Part 10
God's Jewish Warriors: part 11
Drunken American Jews on a birthright tour to Israel express their views of Obama and Middle East while exposing the racism and political ignorance of Americans from outside the Bible Belt South.
Sequel to the expose film "Feeling hate in Jerusalem" on Israeli racism against Palestinians and Obama.
Israel you are not alone, a favorite quote of the infamous Christian Zionist Pastor John Hagee
Kahanist Movement
Racist, terrorist, right wing pro-settler organization and movement banned by Israel for its right wing extremist violence and terrorism against Palestinians across the occupied West Bank. Kahanists are responsible for attempting to blow up the Al Aqsa Compound in 1984 that was foiled by Israeli security. The followers believe that where the Al Aqsa compound or the Harem al Sharif is today is the ancient site of the third temple of Solomon and that the temple should be rebuilt as part of divine propheracy just as Zionism as returned the Jews to their homeland. Some extremist settlers in occupied Hebron and other illegal settlements are part of Kahanist movement or follow its teachings and endores violence against Palestinians for revenege against Israeli deaths and being removed from occupied territories.
Christians Standing with Israel
Israel My Beloved Supports revalations, belives the children of Israel are God's "Chosen people" & only visible people of Holy Land
Gateway Pundit Zionism on Web
Eye on the Post Monitors Washington Post's Middle East report for pro-Palestinian slant
Front Page Magazine
ChristianZionism *Defending Zionism Blog
Peace with realism Calls occupation and Palestinian demands for human rights as "misinformation." Considers all Arabs not only Palestinians as catch all 22 irrational and evil terrorists
American Messianic Fellowship (AMF) African Development Corporation-Pat Robertson
National Review Magazine-U.S.
Africom-U.S. African Command Center
Middle East Facts
Think Israel Jewish Task Force Kahanist site also carries the name "Jews against Obama"
Jerualem Summit Israel Activism
PUNDITS
Right wing in U.S. & Neoconservatives
Pundits in mainstream media:
American Enterprise Institute
Jewish Task Force-Kahanist site
Massada 2000Crude website equates Palestinians with animals and grotesque violence
American Friends of Likud
Israel's Likud Party
Front Page Magazine
Christians United For Israel
Africom-U.S. African Command Center
Fox News
Women in Green
Right Bias Conservative News
Think Israel
American Friends of Golan
Christian Friends for Israeli Communities-Settler movement
CATO Institute
American Conservative Union
Palestinian Media Watch-Israeli site
Likud of Holland
Shas Party
Mafdal Religious Party
Middle East Facts
African Development Corporation-Pat Robertson
Christian Alliance Caucus-Knesset
National Review Magazine-U.S.
Hatherleigh Press Publisher of The Arab Mind
Western Resistance
Exposing Islam
Endowment for Middle East Truth
Arabic for "Roots." San Francisco based Palestinian dance group preserving traditional Palestinian dance, culture and non violent resistance through debkah the most famous traditional dance across the Arab World and Africa.
Stealing Palestine's culture, identity
Stealing Palestinian history
Using bible to deny Palestinian rights
Israel for kids
Holy Land, Zionist edition
Appropriating Palestinian culture
Palestinian Hertiage
Palestinian culture Facebook
Israel at 60
A celebration of Israel since 1948 ignores the politics between Israel and Palestine. It focuses instead on Israeli culture, literature, Israeli community in San Francisco Bay Area, etc.
Britain & Israel: Christian Zionism & Victorian culture
Fire Bird Dance
Israeli dance troupe from San Francisco promoting Israeli culture and traditions
Cultural Racism & Cultural Misappropriation
Jerusalem Affairs: Marketing the Holy Land
American-Israel Cultural Foundation
Anti-Semitism embedded in British culture
Give Israel Your United Support
Israel government run
Gamla
Denying Palestinian claims to Jerusalem: Jerusalem is the undivided capital of Israel, forever & ever amen
CNN God's Warriors
CNN's eye opening exmaination and observation of how the right wing politicians & the (mis)interpretation of Bible, Torah and Quran has led to the current so called "class of civilizations" as an envisioned by Samuel P. Huntington. Senior CNN Correspondent and foreign reporter Christian Amanpour travels the globe literally from Occupied East Jerusalem, Tehran, U.S. & England to look at how religionst extremists of Judiasm, Christianity and Islam have declared wars on so called infidels and enemies of society, how extremism is excertebrated by the War on Terrorism for all three Abrahamic Faiths. How religion plays a surprising role in daily life including education, home life, school and literature. The documentary was also slammed by the Israeli lobby for challenging the thoughts and actions of Zionism & Christian Zionism.God's Jewish Warriors
God's Jewish Warriors: Part 1God's Jewish Warriors: Part 2
God's Jewish Warriors: Part 3
God's Jewish Warriors: Part 4
God's Jewish Warriors: Part 5
God's Jewish Warriors: Part 6
God's Jewish Warriors: Part 7
God's Jewish Warriors: Part 8
God's Jewish Warriors: part 9
God's Jewish Warriors: Part 10
God's Jewish Warriors: part 11
God's Christian Warriors
Known unknows: Hate in Israel
Feeling hate in Jerusalem
Drunken American Jews on a birthright tour to Israel express their views of Obama and Middle East while exposing the racism and political ignorance of Americans from outside the Bible Belt South.
Feeling the Hate in Tel Aviv
Sequel to the expose film "Feeling hate in Jerusalem" on Israeli racism against Palestinians and Obama.
Christian Zionism
Too many people make the mistake of thinking that the terms Jews and Zionists (supporters of Israeli policy) are synonymous. This is not at all correct. Not all Jews are Zionists (to learn about Jews who have chosen to speak up against Israel, see Jews in Support of Palestine and Anti-Zionist Jews; also some Jews have even converted to Islam). And not all Zionists are Jews. In fact, some of the most ardent - and most powerful - Zionists are Christian fundamentalists. They often ignore Israeli peacemakers and activists, offering literal interpretation of revalation to explain Palestine-Israel, via Pat Robertson & John Hagee, two renown conservative pastors whose sermons have been broadcast on American TV for over 40 years. Robertson's 700 club has been on air since 1966.Israel you are not alone, a favorite quote of the infamous Christian Zionist Pastor John Hagee
Biblical Zion and Israel right or wrong
Biblical Zionist Fresno ZionismKahanist Movement
Racist, terrorist, right wing pro-settler organization and movement banned by Israel for its right wing extremist violence and terrorism against Palestinians across the occupied West Bank. Kahanists are responsible for attempting to blow up the Al Aqsa Compound in 1984 that was foiled by Israeli security. The followers believe that where the Al Aqsa compound or the Harem al Sharif is today is the ancient site of the third temple of Solomon and that the temple should be rebuilt as part of divine propheracy just as Zionism as returned the Jews to their homeland. Some extremist settlers in occupied Hebron and other illegal settlements are part of Kahanist movement or follow its teachings and endores violence against Palestinians for revenege against Israeli deaths and being removed from occupied territories.
Christians Standing with Israel
Israel My Beloved Supports revalations, belives the children of Israel are God's "Chosen people" & only visible people of Holy Land
Gateway Pundit Zionism on Web
Eye on the Post Monitors Washington Post's Middle East report for pro-Palestinian slant
Front Page Magazine
ChristianZionism *Defending Zionism Blog
Peace with realism Calls occupation and Palestinian demands for human rights as "misinformation." Considers all Arabs not only Palestinians as catch all 22 irrational and evil terrorists
American Messianic Fellowship (AMF) African Development Corporation-Pat Robertson
National Review Magazine-U.S.
Africom-U.S. African Command Center
Middle East Facts
Think Israel Jewish Task Force Kahanist site also carries the name "Jews against Obama"
Jerualem Summit Israel Activism
Pundits
Organizations & persons below belief an aggressive U.S. Foreign Policy is necessary for the security of the U.S., Europe, Israel and other Western allies often ignoring the consequences of wars, military occupation and their actions. They also push for American leaning Iraqi Democracy at all costs. Often ignored by these pundits and organizations are Israeli peace activists, organizations and makers. Belief in a literal interpretation of revelations and the Bible, support right wing media pundits, Businessmen, Petroleum conglomerates and corporations, Congressmen, Zionists, Christian Zionists, and aid illegal Israeli settlements built in occupied East Jerusalem & West Bank. Often shun and ignore human rights for Palestinians, Iraqis, Lebanese, etc protected and guaranteed by International Law. Without challenges from the mainstream media, the pundits continue to spin the news, uninform ordinary Americans and lull the rest of the citizens to sleep helping Congress to sustain the 5 year occupation of Iraq by the U.S. and Israel's 41 year occupation of Palestine, Sheba Farms & Golan and dehumanization of the Middle East and Africa.PUNDITS
Right wing in U.S. & Neoconservatives
Pundits in mainstream media:
American Enterprise Institute
Jewish Task Force-Kahanist site
Massada 2000Crude website equates Palestinians with animals and grotesque violence
American Friends of Likud
Israel's Likud Party
Front Page Magazine
Christians United For Israel
Africom-U.S. African Command Center
Fox News
Women in Green
Right Bias Conservative News
Think Israel
American Friends of Golan
Christian Friends for Israeli Communities-Settler movement
CATO Institute
American Conservative Union
Palestinian Media Watch-Israeli site
Likud of Holland
Shas Party
Mafdal Religious Party
Middle East Facts
African Development Corporation-Pat Robertson
Christian Alliance Caucus-Knesset
National Review Magazine-U.S.
Hatherleigh Press Publisher of The Arab Mind
Western Resistance
Exposing Islam
Endowment for Middle East Truth
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