May 11, 2008


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Franchising “Apartheid”: Why South Africans Push the Analogy

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 protest ...
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The Cairo Clique: Anti-Zionism and the Canadian Left

THE PHENOMENON THAT Dr. Ely Karmon of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism has called "a growing trend of solidarity between leftist, Marxist, anti-globalization and even rightist elements with Islamists"[1] has lately emerged as the dominant trend in "anti-war" activism in Canada. Central to the phenomenon is a strategic collaboration between ostensibly left-wing activists in and far-right ...
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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 have ...
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