The Nabil Test
In order to grasp the way in which contemporary solidarity terminology operates to deceive and derail the Palestinian cause, we will look at a few theoretical simulations that will help to clarify the corrosive nature that is the contemporary pro Palestinian discourse.
Students displayed a mock wall on Pitzer College’s campus on Tuesday, defying administrative restrictions. (Photo from Pitzer SJP Facebook) Courtesy The Electronic Intifada
Members of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) had constructed a mock Israeli wall on campus on Tuesday as part of their actions marking Israeli Apartheid Week
Pandering and fear mongering together with hatred for Arabs and the left are the ingredients of Netanyahu’s secret potion, and it now appears that many voters were indeed seduced.
The End of the Liberal Zionist Façade
Image: Yonatan Shapira, former Israeli Air Force pilot, now solidarity activist, speaks to seminarians in Oslo, Norway, September 23, 2014. (courtesy The Electronic Intifada)
Noam Chomsky’s critique of the boycott/divestment/sanctions movement against Israel, which is in solidarity with the Palestinian people, has attracted wide attention.1 The Nation, where his article appeared, published five responses, to which Chomsky responded, and at least five appeared independently.2 Chomsky’s views were not new, but were first expressed during a BDS initiative in 2002, at Harvard and MIT.
The US’s catastrophic loss of international political influence and the degradation of its moral image has much to do with their bizarre approval of, and financial support for, Israel’s actions in the Middle East.
Israel detained 1,266 Palestinian children in 2014 (Image: courtesy Veterans News Now)
Image:French President Francois Hollande (R) holds a press conference with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris on September 19, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/FRANCOIS GUILLOT)
Image: File photo of the UN General Assembly
Just look at the nations controlled by the grubby little bribe takers: Stephen Harper of Canada and Australia’s Tony Abbott
by Anthony Lawson
