Update: I’m eating crow on this. Earlier today I posted an excerpt from an interview with the Chicago rapper, Lupe Fiasco, who gained some midlevel fame with his “Kick Push” song. Setting up the post, I noted that Fiasco generally has decent politics (the link is to his close association with the late historian Howard Zinn). In […]
Photographer Natan Dvir’s images of “18 year-old Arabs living in Israel” were inspired by his realization that he knew little, and understood less about Israel’s Arab society. Arabs consist of “over a fifth of the population,” but these “hundreds of thousands of families who continue to live within Israel’s borders” are invisible within Jewish society. […]
An Israeli newspaper last week revealed (more celebrated) that Judge Richard Goldstone, the Jewish South African judge–who was the primary author of a UN report in September last year that charged Israel and Hamas with war crimes during the invasion of Gaza–had sentenced 28 black South Africans to their deaths while serving as a judge […]
The reported pressure of the South African Zionist Federation on a Johannesburg synagogue to bar Judge Richard Goldstone, deemed an enemy of Israel, from his grandson’s barmitzvah as well as the news that students at the University of Berkeley California wanted to repeat divestment strategies against Israel once used against Apartheid South Africa, has put […]
If you know me, you know one of my favorite quotes: “I’ve never felt myself to belong to any establishment of any kind, any mainstream. I’m interested in mainstreams, I’m jealous of them, I sometimes, occasionally, envy people who belong to them — because certainly I don’t — but on the whole I think they’re […]
The latest issue of the French news monthly, “Le Monde Diplomatique,” has an excellent piece recounting the connected histories of South Africa and Israel, both under Apartheid and since the advent of democratic rule in the former country. “By a quirk of history, just a few weeks separate the creation of Israel in May 1948 […]
