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About That Word Apartheid |
| Issue: 2007, Volume 40, Issue 2 |
| Subject: Apartheid|South Africa |
| Author: Various Authors |
| Issue Description: President Carter’s book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid”unleashed a firestorm of controversy. To suggest that white, racist South Africa’s treatment of its indigenous inhabitants is in any way similar to Israel’s treatment of its indigenous inhabitants, for some, smacks of anti-Semitism. And yet, a Google search of “Israel + Apartheid”brings up 5.5 million references. To help clarify the relationship between Israel and apartheid South Africa, John Mahoney, Jane Adas and Robert Norberg put together a timeline, beginning with June 1917, when Dr. Chaim Weizmann and Gen. Jan Christian Smuts met in London to lobby for their respective causes. |
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Witness for the Defenseless |
| Issue: 2007, Volume 40, Issue 3 |
| Subject: Human Rights|West Bank/Gaza|Zionism |
| Author: Baltzer, Anna |
| Issue Description: Anna Baltzer writes that it was on a trip to southern Lebanon where, for the first time, “I heard a narrative about the state of Israel altogether different from the one I had learned growing up as a Jewish American.”To see the situation for herself, she traveled to Palestine in late 2003 as a volunteer with the International Women’s Peace Service (IWPS), a grassroots solidarity organization dedicated to documenting and nonviolently intervening in human rights abuses in the West Bank. “In spite of my research,”she continues, “nothing could have prepared me for witnessing firsthand the injustices that characterize Israeli rule in the West Bank, including the expansion of Jewish-only colonies on Palestinian land, the virtually unchecked brutality of soldiers and settlers against Palestinian civilians, and Israel’s Apartheid Wall, separating hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their land, jobs, hospitals, schools, and each other.” |
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Middle East Studies Under Siege |
| Issue: 2006, Volume 39, Issue 1 |
| Subject: Education |
| Author: Scott, Joan W. |
Issue Description: In 2001, shortly after the terrorist attacks on the trade towers in New York, the American Association of University Professors set up a special committee to report on Academic Freedom in a Time of National Emergency. Joan W. Scott, professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., was a member of that committee and, at the time, chair of A.A.U.P.’s committee on academic freedom and tenure. The author describes the “well-organized lobby that, on campus and
off, has been systematically attacking Middle East studies programs under various guises”in an effort to limit expression on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to pro-occupation viewpoints. |
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Inside the Anti-Occupation Camp |
| Issue: 2006, Volume 39, Issue 2 |
| Subject: Peace Process |
| Author: Warschawski, Michel |
Issue Description: In 1984, along with Palestinian and Israeli activists, Michel Warschawski co-founded the Alternative Information Center, which combines grassroots activism with research, analysis, dialogue and the dissemination of information on Palestine-Israel. He was arrested by Shin Bet in 1987 and refused, during 15 days of interrogation, to reveal the names of Palestinian counterparts and others active in opposing the occupation. The author is a Polish Frenchman and a rabbi’s son who went to Israel to
study the Talmud and ultimately chose to risk his personal security in the cause of peace with justice for Palestinians. |
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