Posts Tagged ‘Israel’

Eric Lee, veteran leftist, writes in his blog and in Solidarity: This may be news to some, but what is today commonplace was once quite rare. I’m referring to anti-Semitism on the far Left — and am reminded of what some of us saw as a turning point back in 1972. For a quarter of a […]


By The Soupy One: I had not heard of Moshe Siman until I read Mystical Politics’ account of his protest. When reading that what struck me was, how little we hear of the real Israelis’ struggles in the Western media. Contrast that with the excellent coverage of Greece, the Banks, the economy and more importantly […]


Thinking the global crisis South Atlantic Quarterly: Perspectives on the Global Crisis Volume 111, Number 2, Spring 2012 Moishe Postone, Special Issue Editor. Includes Moishe Postone: Thinking the Global Crisis Full Text (PDF). Also: Duncan K. Foley (Abstract/Full Text (PDF)), Michael Hardt (Abstract/Full Text (PDF)) and others. More and more labor is being rendered superfluous, even as […]


Two posts from It’s Complicated


Cross-posted from BobFromBrockley At the start of the year, I wrote a post on nations, states and the one-state solution, which ended with an invocation of John Lennon’s “Imagine”. It was pretentious, self-dramatising and exaggerated to talk about a “defining moment” in the way I did, and I cringe to re-read that final paragraph of the post. […]


Andrew Coates on Platypus versus the Weekly Worker. Carl Packman on whether Sidney Webb was against a Jewish homeland. Related articles


Three more or less unrelated items. Slovenian philosopher: “Antisemitism is alive and kicking in Europe” Saturday, June 25 2011|Mairav Zonszein: On Friday evening, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek gave a lecture in a bookstore in Central Tel Aviv teeming with familiar faces of leftwing activists. It was hosted by Udi Aloni, an Israeli-American artist and BDS activist, […]


Jello Biafra

10Jun11

Prestor June 9, 2011 08:39 PM Jello Biafra bucks boycott NEW JEWISH RESISTANCE: Jello Biafra, legendary lead singer of the Dead Kennadys, is refusing to cancel a scheduled gig in Tel Aviv, instead offering to “debate” the issue with sanctions advocates.[…]


Via Roderick T Long: The Center for a Stateless Society announces a new Arabic website and an open letter to the Egyptian people. One of Kevin Carson’s pieces has also been picked up by a couple of prominent Middle Eastern news sources, here and here. For news on the latest activities of Anarchists Against The Wall, see here. There […]


http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=113803372021733&id=118914244840679 GAZA’S YOUTH MANIFESTO FOR CHANGE! von Gaza Youth Breaks Out (GYBO), Montag, 13. Dezember 2010 um 06:47 Fuck Hamas. Fuck Israel. Fuck Fatah. Fuck UN. Fuck UNWRA. Fuck USA! We, the youth in Gaza, are so fed up with Israel, Hamas, the occupation, the violations of human rights and the indifference of the international community! […]