The parallels between the Palestinians’ 50 years of struggle for their own land and the anti-apartheid movement’s decades of military and civil campaigns for majority rule are seen as obvious in Southern Africa, where liberation wars successfully ended colonialism and racial oppression…
US officials recently announced the somewhat jarring news that Israeli security forces will be training American soldiers in the techniques of urban warfare. Apparently Israel’s illegal thirty-five year occupation of Palestine has enabled it to perfect tactics that our troops will need in a ‘possible’ war on Iraq.
“We are the tangible link between Islam and the modern, secular world. In more than one sense, we are living in two cultures, two civilizations, at one and the same time…”
The path from this troubled awareness to my later ability to be critical of Israel has been long and complex. Over the years I have spoken with other Jews who have traveled this same path, and to many more who haven’t. In each of us I have detected mental obstacles that make it hard, sometimes impossible, for us to see what is there before our eyes…
there is an age at which young people learn things and accept new ideas; after that a person becomes less likely to …
For how long are we simply going to nurture our sense of grievance? How much longer will we be content with the role of victim? If we want to stop Islamophobia and racism, we will have to start doing some hard work to put things right.
They strictly follow the tenets of the Torah. They also burn Israeli flags. Alex Klaushofer meets the members of Neturei Karta in north London – the Jewish world’s most outspoken critics of Zionism.
“Every person who chooses Islám as a way of life has a deeply personal story, which can be very moving and inspiring to hear…”
