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A Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem walks into a checkpoint that separates the entirely walled-off neighborhood of Shuafat Refugee Camp, East Jerusalem, December 27, 2011. (Anne Paq/Activestills.org)
The ‘NY Times’ puts apartheid on page one
Netanyahu and the Israeli right’s alternative to the two-state solution appears to be taking shape. There are only so many ways of describing that shape, and the reality to which it leads. Out of the six times that the word apartheid has been used to describe Israel or Israeli policy on page A1 of the…
By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man January 2, 2018
New York Times. (photo: flickr/niallkennedy CC by NC 2.0)
‘New York Times’ on Jerusalem violence: What occupation?
Bureau chief Jodi Rudoren’s new article doesn’t even rise to the level of false moral equivalence. I don’t like to pile on in the left-wing criticism of the New York Times’ coverage of Israel/Palestine; as a rule I find it irritatingly “even-handed,” equating the violence of the subjugator with that of the subjugated, but this,…
By Larry Derfner November 7, 2014
Israel police arrest a left-wing protester during a demonstration against settlement in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan. (File photo by Oren Ziv/ Activestills.org)
Israel’s Left forgot what dissent really means
Dissent means going against the majority when you believe the majority is wrong — and not just to be contrary. That means being unpopular almost by definition; the majority will never send us flowers. My colleague Mairav Zonszein has written an eloquent piece in The New York Times decrying the state of dissent in Israel,…
By Dahlia Scheindlin October 1, 2014
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Protest against the boycott Law, Tel Aviv, June 12 2011 (photo: Oren Ziv/activestills)
Silencing dissent in Israel – continued
Silencing dissent doesn’t only mean directly quashing free speech. Silencing, or a chilling effect, also take place when certain forces in society dominate and monopolize the narrative, deciding what is acceptable, what is fringe and what is mainstream. Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling: the dafka-like quality of awkwardness…
By Mairav Zonszein October 1, 2014
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