Monthly Archives: July 2010

Book review: history lesson on the left’s Palestine blind spot

30 July, 2010

Originally published on Electronic Intifada. Asa Winstanley, The Electronic Intifada, 30 July 2010 Mike Marqusee’s book If I am Not For Myself, newly available in paperback, is a fascinating, meandering sort of family memoir. From the subtitle “Journey of an … Continue reading →

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Book review: Gideon Levy and the Western media elite

26 July, 2010

Originally published on Electronic Intifada. Asa Winstanley, The Electronic Intifada, 26 July 2010 The small volume The Punishment of Gaza is a selection from Gideon Levy’s columns on Gaza in Israeli daily Haaretz since 2006. The dissident Israeli journalist reminds … Continue reading →

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Palestinian student councils condemn UK Labour Students for breaking BDS picket line 24 January, 2012
A open letter from a huge coalition of Palestinian student groups published today, condemns the UK Labour party student officers who went on a recent propaganda tour of Israel and illegal Israeli settlements, for crossing “a picket line established by the entirety of the Palestinian civil society”. […]
Israeli propaganda officer boasted of taking UK Labour Students partying in Tel Aviv, deletes Tweet 18 January, 2012
Since the story of the Labour party students officers who took an all-expenses-paid trip to Israel and its illegal West Bank settlements broke last week, they have been coming under increasing pressure from student activists. But strong evidence has now emerged the delegation spent a night clubbing in Tel Aviv with a spokesperson for the the Israeli occupati […]
Paul Flynn, BICOM and the nexus between Zionism and anti-Semitism 10 January, 2012
Paul Flynn’s comments last month were misguided, but the main perpetrators of anti-Semitic ideas about “Jewish loyalty” are the Zionist movement and Israel. BICOM’s chief executive took part in a panel at a Zionist conference in November whose title reflected exactly the same idea. […]
Israeli propaganda group HonestReporting denies encouraging employee to smear UK professor 6 January, 2012
My recent article exposing a smear by an Israeli pressure group worker seems to have touched a nerve. Israeli masters student Smadar Bakovic claimed in the Jewish Chronicle last month that Warwick University professor Nicola Pratt had given her a lower grade for her dissertation than she deserved because of anti-Israeli bias. But Warwick university strongly […]
The secret CST documents that smeared anti-Zionist Jews as extremists 21 December, 2011
Containing the full documentation, this blog entry is a companion piece to my special report on the CST: “UK charity with Mossad links secretly denounced anti-Zionist Jews to government”. […]
Pinkwashing and the Israeli ads that wipe Palestine off the map 11 December, 2011
Two of the UK’s bestselling lifestyle magazines aimed at gay men have published the controversial Israeli advert that wipes Palestine and Syria off the map. Last Sunday I wrote about the “Think Israel” advertising campaign underway here in the UK. The Guardian received hundred of complaints after running a glossy advert that included a map in which the occup […]
Watch: Israeli professor describes "racist discourse" of official school books 8 December, 2011
Palestine in Israeli School Books: Nurit Peled-Elhanan Alternate Focus recently conducted this interview with Israeli academic Nurit Peled-Elhanan. She is author of the forthcoming book “Palestine in Israeli School Books: Ideology and Propaganda in Education”, which I am hoping to review for EI. The interview is very much worth watching. It should give anyon […]

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