May 22, 2010

"The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment"

By Peter Beinart, New York Review of Books, June 10, 2010: "In 2003, several prominent Jewish philanthropists hired Republican pollster Frank Luntz to explain why American Jewish college students were not more vigorously rebutting campus criticism of Israel. In response, he unwittingly produced the most damning indictment of the organized American Jewish community that I have ever seen. . . ." [continued]

May 6, 2010

"Chomsky and other scientists condemn Boston museum’s Israeli celebration"

By Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss, May 4, 2010:
What follows is an open letter to the Boston Museum of Science by leading scholars objecting to the museum's sponsorship of an Israeli propaganda effort:

We, the undersigned group of scientists concerned with human dignity and equality, condemn the Museum of Science’s decision to co-sponsor and host “Israeli Innovation Weekend” (IIW) on May 2.

IIW is far from an innocent educational endeavor. It is part of a propaganda campaign by the State of Israel to present itself as a beacon of progress in a desert of backwardness and deflect attention from its atrocious human rights record and fundamentally discriminatory policies. . . . [continued]

May 2, 2010

"Are Israeli Policies Entrenching Anti-Semitism Worldwide?"

By Tony Klug, Tikkun, May/June 2010:
"Even posing the question is painful, for after all the suffering anti-Semitism has caused the Jewish people over the centuries, the last thing we need or deserve is to have it become a permanent state of affairs. Nonetheless, the proposition that the State of Israel, which was conceived as a way of normalizing relations between Jews and all other peoples, might instead be normalizing anti-Semitism is not one we can simply close our eyes to in the forlorn hope that it will go away of its own accord. . . ." [continued]