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Ari Shavit • My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
“What the gentiles say is less important than what the Jews do,”
Tom Segev • A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion
David Rosenberg
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Professor Dorit Naaman, an Israeli living in Canada who teaches at Queens University, published a personal essay titled “I am a Palestinian Jew Or At Least I Will Be” that she posted on Facebook. She wrote: Certainly in my lifetime this place will be called Palestine and I will be a citizen of Jewish-Israeli heritage. By saying I am a Palestinian J
... See moreSarah Schulman • Conflict Is Not Abuse
Howard Rheingold
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
In May 1941, Arthur Hays Sulzberger had spoken words to affirm that he and the American journalism establishment could not “turn our heads away from those who suffer.” He spoke of a need to confront the horrors of other people’s suffering in order to keep alive “spiritual values” to be once again embraced “when all this nightmare is over.” And yet,
... See moreAshley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
Berggren was at least prepared to nail his colors to the mast: “I’m a republican, basically, and it’s definitely an intellectual nuisance, but I tend to agree with Engels that it’s a distraction.