tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16087542309727232212024-03-19T06:03:16.768-07:00the edge of where?Theedgeofwherehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13923112399294558618noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608754230972723221.post-41466700606419680432017-01-11T03:34:00.000-08:002017-01-11T04:50:14.748-08:00Corbyn calls for cloth cap for high earners<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Jeremy Corbyn has set out plans that could see high-earners
having to wear cloth caps at work.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Addressing a gathering of his supporters from
the business community today, he told the two falafel-stall holders that
"no one takes a person in a cloth cap seriously".</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial";">While wearing a cloth cap, the Leader of the Opposition argued that forcing the super rich to wear cloth caps would "turn them into the figures of
ridicule, the targets of vitriol, that we believe they should be in the
kinder, more decent society we hope to create."</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial";">The Labour Leader's remarks come just days
after he was reported to have proposed a cap on maximum earnings. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial";">"We are used to this kind of post-truth misreporting
by the mainstream media," a spokesman explained.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial";">"Jeremy never called for a cap on high
earnings. He called for a cap <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">for</i>
high earners. This is a sensible sartorial suggestion for the 21<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">st</span></sup>
century". </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial";">"The idea that Jeremy would propose an
outdated Cuba-style unworkable economic policy – although understandable - is
in this case mistaken."</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial";">"However", the aide added,
"given that Jeremy considers money to be the root of all evil, the
suggestion that we might stop people from earning it is not without
merit". </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial";">The policy has been criticized by economists
who argue that it could lead to an exodus of talented individuals with very big
hair. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "arial";">It is also unclear whether footballers would
have to wear the cloth cap under Corbyn's policy. Arsene Wenger, manager at
Corbyn's favourite team Arsenal, has said he would challenge the policy if it
came to it. He added that while he would personally never agree to wear the
cloth cap, he might compromise on a beret. </span></span></div>
Theedgeofwherehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13923112399294558618noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608754230972723221.post-23047238503987619152016-06-24T02:25:00.001-07:002016-06-24T02:36:12.640-07:00Two poems for the morning after Brexit<br />
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1.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span></div>
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The day the
elderly f*cked us </div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span></div>
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was a Thursday</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span></div>
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and on the
Friday</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
we awoke to
what had happened.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span></div>
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They'd given our
inheritance</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span></div>
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to a box</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span></div>
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already bursting</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span></div>
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with its lies
and its mistrust and wasted life.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span></div>
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Dear
Grandparents, </div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
your alzheimers </div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span></div>
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won't prevent us</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span></div>
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from recalling
that dark night</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
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2.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span></div>
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Will the anger
leave</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span></div>
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when that line
still snakes</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span></div>
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the waiting
remains</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span></div>
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and the faceless
distant aren't there to blame.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span></div>
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Where now will their
anger go?</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span></div>
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Where will their
jabbing finger point?</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span></div>
</span><br />
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<br /></div>
Theedgeofwherehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13923112399294558618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608754230972723221.post-81739682570081550232016-05-07T00:36:00.000-07:002016-05-07T00:36:16.626-07:00Me and Jeremy Corbyn MP (from 2009)When I was a student I often wrote notes on facebook. I guess I had more time.<br />
<br />
It was like my blog before I had this blog.<br />
<br />
Well, one of the notes I wrote was all about... <b>Jeremy Corbyn! </b><br />
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It was 2009, and Jeremy was an irrelevant backbencher who garnered little interest. Seriously: my note only got a single like, and that was from me.<br />
<br />
I thought I'd deleted all those old notes and lost to the ether anything I hadn't transferred to this blog.<br />
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Turns out I was wrong. Searching my computer I found a word document that had them all - so here's the note about Jeremy. But first, I'd like to point out that I was totally ahead of the zeitgeist here, writing about Jeremy long before it became fashionable.<br />
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This evening Jeremy Corbyn, MP
for Islington North, came to speak to the Oxford University Labour Club about
the recent conflict in Gaza. It was a pretty decent talk, for the most part.
But at the end I couldn't resist going up to him and asking a cheeky question. <br />
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Me to Jeremy Corbyn: <br />
“Thank you for your talk, I really enjoyed it. I just wanted to ask: how come
Zionists have such a stranglehold on Labour politics? I mean, take James
Purnell for example – he went from being in LFI to a ministerial position. How
do they have such control?”<br />
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Jeremy Corbyn:<br />
“I only wish I knew... money, I suppose.”<br />
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Theedgeofwherehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13923112399294558618noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608754230972723221.post-48167962863711292422016-04-25T03:02:00.001-07:002016-04-25T05:32:33.764-07:00Some thoughts on Brexit<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10.5pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Some thoughts on Brexit… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Trade - </b>Brexiteers
believe we could negotiate a deal with the EU under which we could continue to
trade as usual, but without having to make payments to the EU, being subject to
its regulations, or allow free movement of people. This from the Economist
explains why such a belief is fanciful: </div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">"At a
minimum, the EU would allow full access to its single market only in return for
adherence to rules that Eurosceptics are keen to jettison. If Norway and
Switzerland (whose arrangements with the EU many Brexiters idolise) are a
guide, the union would also demand the free movement of people and a big
payment to its budget before allowing unfettered access to the market.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Worse, the EU
would have a strong incentive to impose a harsh settlement to discourage other
countries from leaving. The Brexit camp’s claim that Europe needs Britain more
than the other way round is fanciful: the EU takes almost half Britain’s
exports, whereas Britain takes less than 10% of the EU’s; and the British trade
deficit is mostly with the Germans and Spanish, not with the other 25 countries
that would have to agree on a new trade deal."</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">This briefing gives more detail: </span><a href="http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21693568-david-cameron-will-struggle-win-referendum-britains-eu-membership-if-he-loses"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial";">http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21693568-david-cameron-will-struggle-win-referendum-britains-eu-membership-if-he-loses</span></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The City -
</b>The big banks, insurers and other big City players have been pretty consistent
in their view that Brexit would harm the City. It's possible they're wrong, but
the consistency with which they've expressed their view should at least give
you pause for thought. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><a href="https://www.lloyds.com/news-and-insight/press-centre/speeches/2016/02/the-implications-of-brexit-for-the-london-insurance-market">https://www.lloyds.com/news-and-insight/press-centre/speeches/2016/02/the-implications-of-brexit-for-the-london-insurance-market</a></span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/brexit-would-lead-to-loss-of-100000-bank-jobs-says-city-a3124661.html">http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/brexit-would-lead-to-loss-of-100000-bank-jobs-says-city-a3124661.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/04/19/brexit-risks-already-beginning-to-manifest-warns-mark-carney/">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/04/19/brexit-risks-already-beginning-to-manifest-warns-mark-carney/</a></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Regulation
- </b>Brexiteers complain that the EU imposes ludicrous rules, but all too
often the examples given turn out to be untrue. In March, Boris Johnson wrote
in the Telegraph that under EU rules, you can't recycle a teabag and children
under eight can't blow up balloons. It's nonsense, yet he wrote it, the
Telegraph published it, and people believed it. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/boris-johnsons-brexit-balloon-claim-burst-by-treasury-committee-chairman_uk_56f265d7e4b04aee1b6fb20f"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/boris-johnsons-brexit-balloon-claim-burst-by-treasury-committee-chairman_uk_56f265d7e4b04aee1b6fb20f</span></a></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Immigration
- </b>The EU is often attacked for allowing immigrants and refugees – but (with
some caveats) I broadly welcome them. </div>
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EU immigrants contribute more in taxes than they
take in benefits. <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c49043a8-6447-11e4-b219-00144feabdc0.html#axzz46pIdnWsP"><span style="color: blue;"></span></a><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c49043a8-6447-11e4-b219-00144feabdc0.html#axzz46pIdnWsP">http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c49043a8-6447-11e4-b219-00144feabdc0.html#axzz46pIdnWsP</a></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"></a>.</div>
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My parents were immigrants; my grandparents refugees. I think we've contributed a great deal more to this country than we've taken – and I don't see why immigrants coming now can't do the same. </div>
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An economy with an ageing population like ours needs young workers. I don't begrudge Filipino nurses or Polish builders etc; I'm glad they've brought their skills our country. </div>
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It is in any case unlikely that leaving the EU
would enable us to control immigration: <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/may-says-uk-faces-no-control-over-immigration-even-it-leaves-eu-a6998226.html"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/may-says-uk-faces-no-control-over-immigration-even-it-leaves-eu-a6998226.html</span></a></div>
</li>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Politics
- </b>Finally, of course I accept that being part of the EU entails some loss
of sovereignty, but for the reasons above and others, I think it's a price
worth paying. And at least if we're in the EU we can influence the EU; outside,
we risk incurring many of the costs without the benefits - as a Norwegian
minister once put it, “if you want to run Europe, you must be in Europe. If you
want to be run <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">by</i> Europe, feel free
to join Norway.”</div>
</li>
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<br />Theedgeofwherehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13923112399294558618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608754230972723221.post-6130523399105297672015-07-20T23:14:00.000-07:002015-07-21T14:19:18.254-07:00Why Corbyn can't win a general election<div class="MsoNormal">
For the overwhelming majority of people
this blog post is completely superfluous. They read the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/19/observer-view-labour-leadership-election-jeremy-corbyn">newspapers</a>, consider the last
election <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/734f0578-f34a-11e4-8141-00144feab7de.html#axzz3gVGU6S5x">result</a> or think about the <a href="http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/uktable.htm">1980s</a> and the fact that Corbyn won’t win an
election is obvious. But for the small group that continue to clamour for
Corbyn – I hope to change your mind. Here’s why the arguments in his favour
don’t stack up.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Pro-Corbyn
argument number 1</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> <br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">At the last election voters weren’t
offered a real choice. It was austerity heavy or austerity light. The one place
voters were given a real choice – Scotland – they overwhelmingly voted for an
anti-austerity party. If Labour was a genuinely anti-austerity party, like
Corbyn would create, people would have voted for it</i>.</span></div>
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<ol>
<li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: xx-small;"> </span>In the rest of the country voters <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">were</i> offered an anti-austerity choice – the Green Party. They
didn’t vote for it;</li>
<li>One might argue that people
didn’t vote Green because, due to our FPTP voting system, the Greens were not a
viable choice in most constituencies. But if voters nationally were against
austerity, then even if most people's choice was just austerity-light (Labour) or austerity-heavy (Tory), you would expect austerity-light to win – it didn’t;</li>
<li><span lang="EN-US">The SNP's success
cannot in any case be put down entirely to its economic offering. Nationalism
and weaknesses within the Scottish Labour party machine contributed to it;</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US">Scotland has for a long time been to the left of most of
the country. A policy offering that works in Scotland won’t necessarily work in
the rest of the country;</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US">It’s worth remembering that even if Labour had won every single seat
in Scotland, the Tories would still have a majority nationally. If the next government is to be a progressive one, that majority has to be overturned. If
Labour shifts leftwards, it may well pick up seats from the SNP, but there is no
evidence to suggest it will take away Tory seats. (And in any case, Scottish seats make up less than 10% of the whole). </span></li>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Pro-Corbyn
argument number 2<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Disillusion
with a Westminster elite who are all too similar has fuelled the rise of UKIP.
UKIP votes were a protest vote for people who wanted something different.
Corbyn is different. He will win back the their votes.</span></i></div>
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<li>A protest vote for something different need not have been a vote for UKIP –
it could have been a vote for the Green party, an independent candidate, or a
spoilt ballot. So a vote for UKIP also suggests something about the politics of the
people making their protest vote – a politics that is anti-immigration and
anti-EU. Corbyn is probably the most pro-immigration of the Labour leadership
candidates. There is little reason to believe his politics would appeal to UKIP
voters;</li>
<li>Corbyn has angered and alienated UKIP voters with a recent <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/06/08/jeremy-corbyn-bbc-newsnight-ukip-voters-motivated-by-racism_n_7539938.html">interview</a>
in which he maligned many of them as racists (probably true, but nevertheless not a great way to get them on side…)</li>
<li>In any case, Corbyn is not the only candidate who differs from
the typical Westminster elite in some regard. Corbyn is an old, white, male
southerner. The same can’t be said for any of the other candidates.</li>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Pro-Corbyn
argument number 3<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Corbyn
is brave. He has the confidence to speak to terrorists to promote peace. He has
been unfairly attacked in the press for calling them friends, but that’s just
how he speaks to people. If peace is to come we need leaders like him, who will
do dialogue with terrorists.</span></i></div>
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<li>Corbyn is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i> the only
candidate willing to talk to terrorists in pursuit of peace. At leadership
hustings this week Cooper said she would do it. The difference between them is
one of language and approach; she would not call them friends.</li>
<li>In Corbyn’s <a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/07/watch-jeremy-corbyn-loses-his-temper-channel-4-news">interview</a> with Ch4 he explained that he used the word
‘friend’ as a ‘collective term’. The explanation is bizarre – there are
multiple ‘collective terms’ that could be used to describe Hamas politicians,
such as ‘leaders’, ‘representatives’, or just ‘politicians’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why use ‘friends’? Corbyn has since said that
he just calls everyone ‘friend’, but…</li>
<li>Politicians have to use language in a nuanced way. The word
‘friends’ connotes warmth and support. You don’t need to be someone’s friend to
make peace with them. Calling someone a friend, whether one intends it or not,
quite obviously conveys support – which ought not to be given to homophobic,
anti-semitic terrorists.</li>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Pro-Corbyn
argument number 4</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">What
about all those people who didn’t vote? They didn’t vote because all the main
parties are too similar. Corbyn is different. They’ll vote for him.</span></i></div>
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<li>Where’s the evidence that non-voters are overwhelmingly leftists?
What’s to say that Corbyn's inclusion on the ballot paper won’t rouse non-voters
from their political slumber to vote Tory, to make sure he doesn’t win? The
truth is, we just don’t know.</li>
<li>The reality is that people who don’t vote, don’t vote for a whole
bunch of reasons. Some are left wing, some are right wing. Many just
don’t care.</li>
<li>In any case, it's not a sound election strategy to pin your hopes on
the one group of people whose track record suggests that they don’t care enough
about politics to vote.</li>
<li>Finally, nothing promotes voter apathy as much as an alternative that is not perceived to be credible, and based on all the polling and anecdotal evidence around, a Corbyn-led Labour party would not be perceived as being credible. </li>
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Theedgeofwherehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13923112399294558618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608754230972723221.post-10852676077587162032015-01-26T01:47:00.003-08:002015-01-29T04:40:15.533-08:00The rise of the CAA - when good PR and bad statistics mix<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><o:p>The Campaign Against Anti-semitism is a fairly new grassroots organisation combating antisemitism. Previously it organised rallies such as this <a href="http://theedgeofwhere.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/a-review-of-protest-at-tricycle.html">one</a>. However, as I <a href="http://theedgeofwhere.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/the-campaign-against-anti-semitism.html">explained</a> last week, it's recent survey, which has made all sorts of headlines, was </o:p></span>deeply flawed. And it seems the experts agree...</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; text-indent: -18pt;">1. Social Scientist Dr Keith Kahn-Harris -
it was </span><a href="http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/128162/jc-poll-reveals-88-cent-british-jews-have-not-considered-leaving-uk" style="font-family: Calibri; text-indent: -18pt;">‘methodologically invalid. There can be no confidence in its representativeness.’</a></div>
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Research – ‘<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04yk0jf">They haven’t done some key and fairly basic parts of the process</a>.’</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; text-indent: -18pt;">3.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; text-indent: -18pt;">Dr Michael Pinto Duschnisky – ‘<a href="http://www.thejc.com/node/128619">These figures are not to be trusted’</a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; text-indent: -18pt;">4.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; text-indent: -18pt;">Jewish Policy Research statement – ‘</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; text-indent: -18pt;"><a href="http://www.jpr.org.uk/newsevents/article.1012">The organisation’s survey about antisemitism is littered with flaws, and in the context of a clear need for accurate data on this topic, its work may even be rather irresponsible… quite basic methodological flaws and weaknesses</a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div>
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that in July 2014, 95% of hate crimes in London were against Jews. This is </span><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04yk0jf" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 10pt;">false</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 10pt;">. The
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hate crimes in July, and even then there is no breakdown of the number. And if
we look at 2014 as a whole, there were 13,000 hate crimes, of which only 358
antisemitic. That’s not 95% - it’s not even 5%. </span></li>
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Theedgeofwherehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13923112399294558618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608754230972723221.post-58158111952203783302015-01-22T07:12:00.001-08:002015-01-22T07:17:29.570-08:00The logical leaps of Gilad Atzmon.Just found this on <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/sep/25/gilad-atzmon-antisemitism-the-left">Gilad Atzmon</a>'s website.<br />
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It's a letter from the Israeli ambassador to Nick Clegg, voicing concerns about <a href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/columnists/hugo-rifkind/8835181/gerald-scarfe-isnt-anti-semitic-but-david-ward-is/">David Ward MP</a>. For Atzmon, such a letter prompts the question 'Is Britain still a sovereign country? - as he's written at the bottom of the page.<br />
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Quite a logical leap that. Not really sure how he gets from an ambassador's letter to Britain lacking sovereignty, unless - like classical anti-semites - it's because he chooses to see sinister Jewish control wherever he looks. (Although he'd probably protest that he was merely being anti-Israel...).<br />
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Theedgeofwherehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13923112399294558618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608754230972723221.post-30857479926605730962015-01-14T02:57:00.000-08:002017-01-11T04:05:34.878-08:00The Campaign Against Anti-Semitism - Asking the questions you need to get the answers you ought not to want...<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Jewish life in Britain is vibrant,
flourishing, and unashamedly public. We have our own book festival and food
festival, our own newspapers and magazines. More children go to Jewish schools
than ever before. Jewish youth movements take hundreds of children on summer
camps each year. At Christmas each year, hundreds of Jews go to a conference,
Limmud, to discuss and celebrate Jewish life. As the Jewish Policy Research
(JPR) <a href="http://www.jpr.org.uk/documents/Perceptions_and_experiences_of_antisemitism_among_Jews_in_UK.pdf">concluded</a> after conducting a survey on anti-Semitism:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“…compared with
other Jewish populations in Europe, Jews in the United Kingdom generally
experience less anti-Semitism and are less worried about it. There is evidence
to indicate that most British Jews feel fully integrated into British society,
and that discrimination against Jews is largely a thing of the past”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The JPRs findings were published in July.
Yet now a <a href="http://antisemitism.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Annual-Antisemitism-Barometer-Report.pdf">survey</a> by the Campaign for Anti-Semitism (CAA) – a grassroots
organisation of activists – claims that over half of British Jews see no future
in the UK. And this finding has been making <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-new-antisemitism-majority-of-british-jews-feel-they-have-no-future-in-uk-says-new-study-9976310.html">headlines</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">How can it be that the CAA’s findings
deviate so drastically from the findings of the JPR report? The JPR survey of
anti-Semitism was conducted by experts in their field and subjected to careful
statistical testing, all of which is detailed in their report. In contrast, the
CAA survey of anti-Semitism was not, and it shows. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In fact the CAA’s survey had two parts. The
first, in conjunction with Yougov, examined non-Jewish attitudes towards Jews
in Britain. That part wasn’t too bad, although I’d take issue with a couple of
things. For example, according to that survey, not wanting a family member to
marry a Jew is anti-Semitic. But that logic would surely cast as racist any Jew who
opposes a family member marrying out – something I suspect many British Jews
feel. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The second CAA survey, of UK Jews
perceptions of anti-Semitism, was deeply flawed. Firstly, it fell foul of
selection bias, where the method of selecting respondents biases the ultimate
findings. I completed the survey after finding it on the CAA's facebook page – and I
suspect many other people will have found it in similar ways. People who are
looking on websites about anti-Semitism are clearly going to be more likely to
consider anti-Semitism to be a big issue, thereby distorting the results. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Secondly, the survey asked questions that
were laden with assumptions and extremely leading. For example, ‘Media bias
against Israel fuels persecution of Jews in Britain’ – a question that presupposes
the existence of anti-Israel bias.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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which respondents said what. Is there a difference in the responses of
respondents depending on how they learnt of the report? Without more data about
the backgrounds of the respondents, it’s very difficult to properly analyse the
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<span lang="EN-US">Most problematic, in my view, is the odious
suggestion that the current experience of anti-Semitism in Britain ‘has echoes
of the 1930s’. According to CAA, that’s what over half of UK Jews think.
Really? Is our community really that lacking in perspective? 1930s anti-Semitism was state sponsored and quotidian. Modern anti-Semitism
is challenged by the state and – as evidenced by the JPR’s data on how
frequently people actually experience anti-Semitism – is thankfully rare. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span>
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">The authors of the CAA survey report purport to convey a community living in fear. But through the hyperbolic headlines they have prompted they are guilty of contributing towards the very climate of fear about which they claim to be so concerned. </span></span></div>
Theedgeofwherehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13923112399294558618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608754230972723221.post-13212787985119584102014-08-30T16:12:00.001-07:002014-08-31T08:22:43.410-07:00On being dealt the ‘you’re just trying to silence criticism of Israel’ card<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>For <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2003/jan/08/internationaleducationnews.highereducation">Tom Paulin</a></i></div>
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We are fed this laden<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dissembling phrase<o:p></o:p></div>
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Like porky pies<o:p></o:p></div>
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As another classy and chattering type<o:p></o:p></div>
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In suit and jeans and a well worn shirt<o:p></o:p></div>
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Denies the racism they’ve long abjured<o:p></o:p></div>
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And pins that badge <o:p></o:p></div>
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-when we do- sly Jews<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dare to raise that tired word<br />
Anti-semite</div>
Theedgeofwherehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13923112399294558618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608754230972723221.post-80268139051730406742014-08-15T05:29:00.000-07:002014-08-17T03:14:39.893-07:00Jews boycotting Jews <div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">‘</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">No
to censorship,’ ‘no to boycotts,’ ‘boycotts divide.’</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">I
keep encountering these phrases. In <a href="http://theedgeofwhere.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/a-review-of-protest-at-tricycle.html">protests</a> and opinion <a href="http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/culturehousedaily/2014/08/the-double-standards-of-artistic-anti-semitism/">pieces</a>, in
radio debates and discussions with friends, they’ve become something of a
mantra; a learned response to boycotts of Israelis and Jews. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">Yet
now there’s a group pushing a boycott of the Jewish Chronicle, and I’m wondering
how the mantra applies. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">Today
the <a href="http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/121492/dec-gaza-appeal">JC</a> included an advert for the DEC Gaza crisis appeal. Some right-wing
readers have been outraged – how dare the Jewish chronicle want to help Gaza!
Disgraceful! As one facebook friend’s status put it:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica;"> “I'm actually
speechless. It's time the JC removed the word Jewish from it's title.”</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">The
comments underneath were revealing. One quipped that the next thing we know,
the JC will post adverts from the BNP. Another derided the JC as ‘a garbage rag
put out by self-hating Jews.’ When one girl wrote that she thought the advert
was a good thing, with a humanitarian message, another commentator resorted to
sexism, calling her ‘bitchy’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">What really interested me was this: a facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/We-demand-a-full-apology-from-the-Jewish-Chronicle/1470243036566558">page</a> calling for a boycott of
the JC because of the advert. At the time of writing, it has over 100 likes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">I’m
confused. According to the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism, the Tricycle’s
decision to boycott the Jewish Film Festival was reminiscent of 1930s Germany;
boycotting Jews, even if it’s because of their relationship with Israel, is
anti-Semitic.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">What
about when Jews boycott other Jews? When Jonathan Levy, the (Jewish) chairman
of the Tricycle Theatre boycotted the Jewish film festival, many protesting the
Tricycle’s decision called him a self-hating Jew; a Jew who boycotts other Jews
is a self-hater. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">So what about those proposing to boycott the JC? Are they self-haters?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">After
all, both the Tricycle’s boycott of the UKJFF and the proposed boycott of the
JC are boycotts of Jewish organisations. The difference? Anti-Israel sentiment
motivates one boycott; anti-Palestinian sentiment motivates the other. (I could
say ‘pro-Israel sentiment’, but really, when someone opposes a charity advert to support
the victims of bombing, you have to wonder).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">No
doubt my question will offend those who wish to boycott the JC for its inclusion
of the DEC advert. ‘How can we be self-haters?’ they will ask, ‘we don’t hate
Israel; we love it!’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">But
that very response belies the stupidity with which the label ‘self-hating Jew’
is used, to imply that a Jew who opposes Israel must hate themselves
or their Jewishness. It’s a label that wounds Jews with their own Jewish
sensibilities – an approach which sounds, frankly, a little anti-Semitic.
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I love my local
theatre, The <a href="http://www.tricycle.co.uk/">Tricycle</a>. It’s literally around the corner from me and I go at
least once a month. I’ve seen great plays there like Red Velvet and Once a
Catholic. I’ve particularly enjoyed some of their more political shows,
such as The Bomb and a couple of one-man shows by Mark Thomas. The cinema, with its
cheap tickets on Monday nights, is my screen of choice.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">Today I went there to protest, but left having seen a remarkable show. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">I reject the
theatre’s decision to effectively boycott the UK Jewish Film Festival (<a href="http://ukjewishfilm.org/">UKJFF</a>).
The theatre gave the UKJFF an ultimatum: either forego the £1,400 it
received in sponsorship from the Israeli embassy, or lose the venue. They placed the festival in an impossible situation. If the festival rejected
the embassy’s funding, they risked alienating other sponsors, giving succour to
the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott,_Divestment_and_Sanctions">BDS</a> crowd, losing the support of many of their target audience, and
politicising the festival. So they refused and lost the venue. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">The incident raises
many questions. Questions about the singling out of Israel and about artistic
freedom; questions about anti-Semitism and about intentions and
consequences. <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/the-tricycle-cinemas-refusal-to-host-a-jewish-film-festival-raises-issues-of-immense-complexity-9652414.html">Archie Bland</a> and <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/jerusalem-babylon/.premium-1.609410">others</a> have already
discussed these questions admirably, so I won’t go into detail explaining why I oppose The Tricycle’s decision. Suffice to say that a
Jewish cultural event should not have to first denounce or distance itself from Israel for venues to agree to host them. Whatever the Tricycle’s intentions, the
consequence is likely to be that Jewish cultural life in London will be
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">So I protested. The stage was a stretch of
Kilburn High Road, just in front of one of the entrances to the Tricycle
theatre. About 200 protestors were there, many with placards stating ‘Don’t
Punish London’s Jews’. Some protestors brought the (inappropriate?) accessory
of an Israel flag, and one, particularly annoying protestor, brought a foghorn.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">The protest was
put together hastily and unfortunately it showed. There was a lack of clear
direction to the evening, nor any high-profile speakers. But to the organisers' credit, at short notice they had assembled a crowd and printed dozens of placards. Most importantly,
they had brought a loudspeaker, from which came a repetition of call and
response style chants: ‘no to boycotts - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">no
to boycotts - </i>no to anti-Semitism – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">no
to anti-Semitism’. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">In between
these chants, a couple of people did speak, although who they were or why they
had been chosen to speak was unclear. One speaker made the bizarre
comment that he wouldn’t step inside the Tricycle again unless it was as his
ashes. I suspected that with more time, the organisers might not have chosen him to be one of the evening’s orators. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">The British
national anthem was sung three times during the evening. The symbolism was
unclear. Was the aim to prove our Britishness, as though to say: we’re British
so why should we suffer because people are anti-Israel? If so, the message was probably diluted soon after by the singing of the Hatikvah. The chanting of ‘IS-RA-EL!
IS-RA-EL!’ probably didn’t help either. Thankfully it only happened once and
only lasted for about 30 seconds. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">The climax of
the show took place at the edge of the stage. There stood a line of policemen
wearing high-vis yellow jackets, and beside them a man dressed in jeans and a
shirt, with an earpiece clearly visible. CST, I suspect. But beyond them stood
a lone Palestinian, protesting against Israel, shouting ‘Free Free Palestine’
and ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’. When someone spoke to
him, I heard him explain that he was a Palestinian, and that he was protesting against the killing in Gaza. He seemed sad and angry. If I was a Palestinian, hearing
the Hatikva and chants of ‘IS-RA-EL’ and seeing Israeli flags and a man in an
IDF T-shirt, I would probably be angry too. I certainly wouldn’t be persuaded
that this is just a protest about Jewish cultural life. It looked and sounded
very much like a pro-Israel rally.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">Then one of the
Jewish protestors went to the police and began pressuring them to arrest the
Palestinian protestor. ‘You should arrest him’ he said, ‘he’s harassing us...
why don’t you do your job and arrest him?’ Here was a man exercising his right
to free speech by protesting, yet expecting the police to deny that same right to
someone else. Double standards?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">The police
were firm, saying they could only arrest him if he actually committed an
offence. Yet the plucky man
continued ‘you need to arrest him now!’ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">I intervened,
arguing that whether to arrest a person is a matter for the police to decide.
Then another Jewish protestor tapped me on the shoulder and admonished me for
intervening. ‘This doesn’t concern you – don’t get involved’. I enjoyed the irony
of someone getting involved in my conversation to tell me off for getting
involved in someone else’s. But it was lost on the other guy, who seemed to
take offence at my view that the police are probably the best judges of whether
an action is a criminal offence. I think he just wanted the Palestinian
arrested and didn’t like me backing up the policeman’s position that he can’t
arrest someone if they haven’t committed an offence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">The next scene inspired me. It was my cousin, moving to speak with the Palestinian protestor.
Not to shout at him – as sadly another protestor had done, crying ‘it’s our
land and we can build on it’ – but to show him respect by listening to him and
then speaking with him. I couldn’t hear much of their discussion, but they spoke for
at least an hour and shook hands. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">I’m proud of my cousin. All too often the
tendency is to dismiss those shouting at you as haters, and to hate them in
return. But that only perpetuates a cycle of hatred. It also blinds us to the
reasons the other side are angry in the first place. Only by actually talking,
like my cousin did, might such a cycle be broken. I look forward to hearing
more about their conversation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">There was one
comedy scene in the evening. A spat erupted over a sign that said, in German,
‘Jews aren’t welcome here’, placed next to the Tricycle’s logo. I think the
organisers thought they were drawing some kind of clever parallel between the
boycotting of Jews under the Nazis and The Tricycle’s decision vis a vis UKJFF. But it backfired when one woman misunderstood its intended political message, thought it was antisemitic, and proceeded to pull it down and stamp on it. An argument ensued between her others about whether the sign was anti-semitic or combating antisemitism. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;"><br />The sign struck me as an instance of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law">Godwin’s Law</a>, and a frankly absurd and
offensive abuse of the memory of The Holocaust. If it’s wrong to use the memory
of the holocaust to make comparisons with Gaza (which it is) then it’s
certainly wrong to use the memory of the holocaust to make comparisons with the
Tricycle Theatre. Kilburn might be edgy, but 1930s Europe it aint. </span></div>
Theedgeofwherehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13923112399294558618noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608754230972723221.post-79945639596125360352014-07-14T08:03:00.000-07:002014-07-14T09:37:42.038-07:00What we tell ourselves; what they tell themselves<div class="MsoNormal">
“We’re not like them.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">They’re animals<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">who dehumanize us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">who choose to kill us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">who want us gone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We’re not like them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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We just want peace.<br />
<span lang="EN-US">But what can we do?</span><br />
We do what we must.<br />
We have no choice.”</div>
Theedgeofwherehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13923112399294558618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608754230972723221.post-85770043426525380912011-01-22T10:12:00.000-08:002011-01-22T10:19:11.409-08:00Eretz nehederet in the kindergardenCheck out this hilarious offering from Eretz Nehederet, an Israeli satirical show. Kids these days... <br /><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="280" height="187" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/M9Sdkps0Quo" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608754230972723221.post-6096432504410569212011-01-22T10:09:00.000-08:002017-01-11T04:07:10.026-08:00From Hasbara to Hakshava: rethinking Israel education<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:relyonvml/> <o:allowpng/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves/> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:donotpromoteqf/> <w:lidthemeother>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:lidthemeasian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> 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<span lang="EN-GB">The purpose of this essay is to examine and critique the characteristics and effects of Israel education in Britain today. I argue that current approaches to Israel education have tended to prioritize teaching love for Israel – and a particular kind of love for Israel – over teaching knowledge about Israel, and have consequently given rise to a problematic discourse on Israel among Jewish students. In order to avoid this problem a new approach to Israel education is needed. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">To begin, we need to acknowledge the centrality of Israel education to Jewish education in Britain today. Every Jewish student in the country who goes to a mainstream Jewish school or youth movement receives some Israel education. Most Jewish education providers, both formal and informal, view Israel education as a necessary and central part of a rounded Jewish education. The mission statement of Britain’s largest Jewish school, for example, explains that it aims to develop ‘young citizens with a strong sense of identity with Judaism and Israel’<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1608754230972723221#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span></span></a>; most other Jewish schools express similar aims on their websites.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1608754230972723221#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span></span></a> <i>Cheder</i> teaching also generally includes Israel education. The mission statement of the Union of Jewish Students (UJS) calls to ‘inspire’ an ‘enduring commitment to Israel,’ while the 2008 annual review of one of the largest Jewish charities engaging in Jewish education, the UJIA, explains that one of its three key objectives is to place ‘Israel at the heart of Jewish connectedness in the UK’.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1608754230972723221#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span></span></a> Month long tours across Israel run by Jewish youth movements are now attended by over half of all British Jews aged sixteen<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1608754230972723221#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span></span></a> – and for many participants these have become something of a modern day Jewish rite of passage. After their bar or bat mitzvah, Israel tour is arguably the single most formative Jewish experience for most Jewish teenagers in Britain today. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The education someone receives shapes their views and beliefs. Because of its evident centrality to Jewish education in Britain today, the nature and effects of current approaches to Israel education in Britain therefore warrant careful consideration, and will be of interest to anyone concerned with the kinds of Jewish identities that the Jewish education given to young Jews today is likely to foster. They will also be of interest to those concerned with the climate of debate about the Israel-Palestine conflict, especially on campus, in light of the obvious connection between the education people receive about Israel and the opinions they hold – and the way in which they express those opinions – about Israel. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">The nature of ‘Israel education’ in the Jewish community often differs from what we would expect of education on other topics. So while we would expect ‘Belgium education’, for example, to focus on teaching knowledge about<i> </i>Belgium, Israel education sometimes seems to be concerned less with teaching knowledge <i>about</i> Israel than with teaching love <i>for </i>Israel. This is illustrated by the stated aims of Jewish education providers. Thus the Jewish education department of JFS ‘seeks to give a positive view and experience of... Israel.’<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1608754230972723221#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></span></span></a> At Rosh Pinah Jewish primary school, the Jewish studies department aims to ‘<span style="color: black;">instil a love and understanding of Israel and its culture’.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1608754230972723221#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[6]</span></span></span></a> In a video by the Jewish studies department at King Solomon High School, placed on the school’s website under the words ‘learning what it means to be Jewish’, a Jewish studies teacher says that one of their educational programmes looks ‘at making our students the best Israel advocates that we can’.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1608754230972723221#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[7]</span></span></span></a> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">The forum for leaders of Jewish youth movements to meet and discuss is not called the Jewish youth council but the ‘Zionist Youth Council’, reflecting the fact that a central aim of most of the youth movements is to promote Zionism and support for Israel through informal education.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1608754230972723221#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[8]</span></span></span></a> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; line-height: 115%;">Evidently, inculcating positive dispositions towards Israel is a guiding aim behind the Israel education offered by many of the major Jewish education providers in Britain today. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">A second feature of Israel education is its focus on <i>hasbara<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1608754230972723221#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[9]</span></b></span></span></a></i> – encouraging students to defend or promote Israel’s image. The Union of Jewish Student’s <i>manhigut</i> (leadership) trip, for instance, is in fact a political ‘advocacy trip’ to Israel, designed to ‘highlight the key messages to bring back to campus’.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1608754230972723221#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[10]</span></span></span></a> But this sort of hasbara education begins before students embark on their university careers. During my time in sixth-form at JFS, the Jewish Informal Education Department gave me two books for free. But they were not what you might expect – a <i>siddur</i>, a <i>chumash</i>, or Jonathan Sack’s latest – instead they were both Israel-advocacy books: Mitchell G Bard’s ‘Myths and Facts’, and Alan Dershowitz’s ‘The Case for Israel.’</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The clearest example of <i>hasbara</i> education by British Jewish education providers is ‘The Ambassador.’ This is an annual competition for Jewish sixth-formers in JFS and King Solomon School to find the best advocate for Israel. Styled on the BBC’s apprentice, the competition involves a series of Israel advocacy tasks such as public speaking and opinion-piece writing. In the course of the 2005-2006 competition, in which I took part, school assemblies for year 13 were for several weeks devoted to footage being shown of the competition, or Israel-advocacy speakers being invited to talk; and so any Jewish part to our weekly assemblies became an Israel part, and more than that – an Israel-advocacy part. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">In these assemblies and throughout The Ambassador in general there was little teaching <i>about </i>Israel. None of the tasks we were given were knowledge-related; skills, not knowledge, were being taught and tested. We were being encouraged and taught how to support Israel despite being taught very little about the country. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Furthermore, <i>Hasbara </i>schemes like The Ambassador present ‘support’ or ‘love’ for Israel as something one expresses by refuting criticisms of Israel. This kind of love is like that of a mother who is unable or unwilling to accept that the teacher may be right when they say her child misbehaves; rather than considering the teacher’s claims and working to improve her child’s behaviour, such a mother expresses her love by defending her child from the teacher’s allegations – whatever their validity. From the perspective of the child’s best interests, this is clearly unhelpful. Likewise, with Israel, one can express a blind or uncritical love for the country – a ‘support Israel right-or-wrong, refute every criticism’ kind of approach – or their love for Israel can take a more mature and nuanced form, ‘hugging and wrestling’<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1608754230972723221#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[11]</span></span></span></a> with Israel, recognizing its complexities and shortcomings and being prepared to accept and voice criticisms of the country. <i>Hasbara </i>schemes, however, only promote the former kind of love. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Watching footage of ‘The Ambassador’ recently I was also troubled by the political undertones of some of its content. Early on, in a speech describing how bad anti-Israel activism on campus can be, one of the organizers of the competition, from Tribe<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1608754230972723221#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[12]</span></span></span></a>, tells us that when he was a student, a Sabra and Shatilla scholarship was organized for a Palestinian student to study – ‘would you believe it?’ he says – ‘politics’. It is unclear why that should be considered either an obviously bad or surprising thing, though he implies it is both. (I suspect at that point in time most of us listening were in any case not altogether sure what Sabra and Shatilla were). In another instance, the same person from Tribe lists the things that we – ‘brought up in an environment of JFS or in youth movements or Israel tour... take for granted’, in the course of which he says: ‘and the Palestinians are this, that, and the next thing and they’re not really a people.’<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1608754230972723221#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[13]</span></span></span></a> A generous listener may put this down to an unfortunate slip of the tongue. But this line was not then edited out of the video that was subsequently broadcast in the school assembly. Thus in the course of the Israel education provided in JFS that year, the highly controversial claim that the Palestinians are ‘not really a people’ was knowingly presented to the whole of the upper sixth as something we ‘take for granted’ because of the ‘environment of JFS’. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">To the extent that knowledge about Israel is taught in Israel education in schools and youth movements, it is rarely of an impartial nature. The maps of Israel that I recall seeing during most of my Israel education did not distinguish between Israel within the green line and the occupied territories. In JFS I was taught that Zionism was essentially opposed by three Jewish groups: the Reform, the Socialist Bund, and the Ultra-Orthodox. Yet in 1897, at the time of the First Zionist Congress, the then Chief Rabbi of the United Synagogue, Herman Adler – a mainstream Orthodox figure – condemned the congress as an ‘egregious blunder’ and denounced the idea of a Jewish state as ‘contrary to Jewish principles’.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1608754230972723221#_ftn14" name="_ftnref14" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[14]</span></span></span></a> Twenty years later, the then president of the Board of Deputies, Lindo Alexander, wrote a letter to <i>The Times </i>objecting to Zionism.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1608754230972723221#_ftn15" name="_ftnref15" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[15]</span></span></span></a> Disagreement over Zionism was evidently far greater, anti-Zionism far more mainstream a position (at least within Anglo-Jewry) than was recognized in the Israel education I recall receiving. Most revealingly, the 1948 war is inevitably taught as ‘the war of independence’ without (or with minimal) recognition for other narratives of that war, known by Palestinians as the Naqba (catastrophe). This past summer I worked as a madrich (leader) on one of the youth movement Israel Tours described earlier. During the course of the month, Israel Experience<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1608754230972723221#_ftn16" name="_ftnref16" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[16]</span></span></span></a> – who organized the trip – arranged for a number of speakers to talk to the teenagers on the Tour. One speaker taught the basics of Israeli history and politics, during which he discussed the 1948 war. He explained that the Palestinian refugee problem – the exodus of 700,000 Palestinians – was caused by Arab leaders telling Arab citizens to leave. He gave little recognition that actions by Israelis may have contributed to the flight of Arab citizens. This was a disingenuously one-sided presentation of the history of the refugee problem. As historian (and former Israeli Foreign Minister) Shlomo Ben-Ami notes:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“It is not at all clear, as maintained by a conventional Israeli myth, that the Palestinian exodus was encouraged by the Arab states and by local leaders... Indeed, [Benny] Morris found evidence to the effect that the local Arab leadership and militia commanders discouraged flight, and Arab radio stations issued calls to the Palestinians to stay put.”<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1608754230972723221#_ftn17" name="_ftnref17" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[17]</span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Moreover, there are some clear instances of Arab civilians being intentionally expelled or attacked during the war:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“A panic-stricken Arab community was uprooted under the impact of massacres that would be carved into the Arabs’ monument of grief and hatred, like those of Dir Yassin, Ein Zeitun, Ilabun and Lydda; of operational orders like those of Moshe Carmel, the commander of the Carmeli Brigrade in Operation Yiftah and Ben Ami, ‘to attack in order to conquer, to kill the men, to destroy and burn the villages of Al-Kubri, Umm al Faraj and An Nahar’ and by the mass expulsions during the Yoav operation.”<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1608754230972723221#_ftn18" name="_ftnref18" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[18]</span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">“‘Drive them out!’ was Ben Gurion’s instruction to Yigal Allon, as recorded by Yitzchak Rabin... with regard to the Arabs of Lydda”<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1608754230972723221#_ftn19" name="_ftnref19" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[19]</span></span></span></a> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The history of the 1948 war and the refugee problem in particular is undeniably complex and contested. My purpose here is not to enter into the historical debate myself, but simply to point out that this debate exists: that there are various narratives of the war, and that these ought to be acknowledged by those involved in Israel education wanting to teach in a way that is honest, rounded and balanced. At present, they rarely are. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Because of the centrality of Israel education to Jewish education, combined with its emphasis on loving and supporting or defending Israel, an implicit message is currently being conveyed to students: that to be a good Jew <i>is </i>to support Israel; that supporting Israel <i>is </i>an aspect of a full Jewish identity. If a central part of Jewish education is learning to love Israel, the implication is that a central part of being an educated Jew is having a love for Israel. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">So what happens to Jewish students who feel unable to ‘support’ or ‘love’ Israel in the way they have been taught to, perhaps because they are anti-Zionist themselves or, more commonly, because their love for Israel is based on ‘hugging and wrestling’ with the country – they feel that one can and sometimes should publically criticize Israel while still wanting it to ‘not only survive but thrive?’<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1608754230972723221#_ftn20" name="_ftnref20" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[20]</span></span></span></a> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">An interesting example is the experience of Emma Clyne, a Jewish student from Sweden and former president of the Jewish Society at SOAS.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1608754230972723221#_ftn21" name="_ftnref21" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[21]</span></span></span></a> When she organized a discussion for the SOAS Jewish society entitled ‘The Impact of Nationalism on Jewish Identity’, to which she invited speakers from Independent Jewish Voices<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1608754230972723221#_ftn22" name="_ftnref22" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[22]</span></span></span></a>, fellow Jewish students accused her of ‘disloyalty to my Jewish community’. On another occasion, after saying she felt some sympathy for the views expressed at a talk of Jews against Zionism, a fellow Jewish Society member told her she sounded like a ‘self-hating Jewish antisemite’. When, upon becoming the Jewish Society President, she had explained to UJS that she would prefer for their Israel-related resources to go to the SOAS Israel Society and not the Jewish Society, because ‘the Jewish Society had decided to make a clear distinction between the Israel Society and itself’, she was told by one UJS officer that:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Unfortunately, for some Jewish students in a similar position, uncomfortable with Israel but wanting to partake in Jewish student activities, they either switch off Israel or they switch off Judaism. One Jewish student (an American one, but the point could be well applied to the British context) put it this way:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">As the above examples illustrate, the effect of current approaches to Israel education has been to couple Jewish identity with a particular understanding of love for Israel. Consequently, Jewish students who openly oppose aspects of Israel or Israeli policies can sometimes find their Jewish identity being questioned – by fellow Jews and sometimes, as a result, eventually themselves as well. A Jewish student who in the opinion of other Jewish students delegitimizes Israel can risk having their own Jewish identity delegitimized in turn – being called ‘self-hating’, a ‘Jewish antisemite,’ ‘disloyal’ and so on. Assuming the aim of Jewish educators is to strengthen, not undermine, their students’ Jewish identities, this is clearly a problem. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">A second problem with current approaches to Israel education is the effect it has on how people approach Israel/Palestine debates on campus. <i>Hasbara</i> schemes such as The Ambassador have encouraged people to passionately defend Israel without giving them the requisite knowledge base – with an awareness of the multiple narratives of the past – to do so. If the question of what happened in 1948 came up in a debate, and the respondent was to flatly deny that any action from Israelis contributed to the flight of the Palestinians, they would lose credibility in the eyes of audience members who had studied the period. Present <i>hasbara</i> education is too knowledge-light: it is creating confident but not credible advocates for Israel. It therefore fails to fulfil its own criteria for success. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Thirdly, the emphasis on promoting Israel’s image influences students’ abilities to form moral judgements on Israel. This claim is supported by the research of Israeli psychologist Georges Tamarin.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1608754230972723221#_ftn24" name="_ftnref24" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[24]</span></span></span></a> He studied the effect that teaching bible stories uncritically as <i>our </i>history had on student’s moral judgements. He did this by giving students bible passages describing Joshua’s conquests of Canaanite Cities, including the murder of both ‘man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass’. He then gave an analogous text to control groups but changed ‘Joshua’ to ‘Lim’, a Chinese leader, and presented the story in a Chinese context. He then asked both groups if they thought that those involved in the conquests had acted ‘rightly or not’, and found that many more students felt the actions were moral when committed by Joshua than did those responding to the actions committed by Lim. He claimed this demonstrates that our capacity to form critical judgements about the actions of particular countries or characters is influenced by the kind of education we receive about them. It is therefore reasonable to assume that present approaches to Israel education will have influenced and biased students’ judgements on Israeli policies. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I have written this article as someone who wants Israel to survive and thrive. I also want Israel-education to continue, because of Israel’s unique place in Jewish history, literature, religious thought and culture. But in order to overcome the problems outlined above, Israel education has to change. A better approach is what I call the ‘<i>hakshava</i> approach,’ from the Hebrew word ‘to listen’ or ‘to pay attention to’. In this approach, the guiding aim is not to promote the image of Israel to students, and to then encourage them to do the same to others in turn; instead it is to help students form their own opinions about Israel, encouraging them to listen to and engage in dialogue with as many viewpoints as possible and to consider <i>all</i> opinions critically. This would foster a more reasoned, honest, and mature identification with Israel. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">A <i>hasbara </i>kind of love for Israel, expressed by promoting Israel’s image to others, is legitimate (though I think still problematic) as an end point of an educational process; if that’s how students feel after seriously reflecting on a range of viewpoints on Israel, the educator has done no wrong. But as a guiding aim it risks compromising the honesty and breadth of the Israel education. Furthermore, because of the centrality of Israel education to Jewish education, a <i>hasbara </i> approach sends out the problematic message that to be a good Jew <i>is</i> to support Israel; for Jews who do not support Israel – or who support Israel in a different way to that encouraged by <i>hasbara </i>style schemes – their Jewish identity is then called into question. The <i>hakshava </i>approach I put forward would be less likely to foster such problems. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The table below, in an admittedly caricatured way, gives examples of how the graduates of the two approaches to Israel education – the current <i>hasbara</i>-inclined approach, and the alternative <i>hakshava</i> approach I have suggested – will respond to different Israel-related issues confronting them. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">Opens Alan Dershowitz’s ‘The Case for Israel’ to find a reply to the relevant criticism.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;"> </span><span style="font-family: ";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">In this essay I have identified some of the problematic consequences of current approaches to Israel education, pointing in particular to its effects on students’ understandings of their own and other peoples’ Jewish identities; their relationships with Israel; and their approach on campus to the Israel/Palestine conflict. I have argued that Israel education has a place in Jewish education today, but that the content and nature of this education needs to change to make it more honest and balanced so as to overcome the problems discussed; I hope it does. </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608754230972723221.post-15345811696396156482010-05-06T11:53:00.000-07:002010-05-06T12:45:35.548-07:00Ethnically cleansing the Jews? Yes, I think you'll find that's antisemitic.Today I lost a little faith in the police.<br /><br />Remember the story about Noor Rashid? He was the student accused of shouting 'slay the Jews' at the Oxford Union some months ago. (see <a href="http://theedgeofwhere.blogspot.com/2010/02/death-to-jews-at-oxford-union.html">here</a>).<br /><br />Well according to today's <span style="font-style: italic;">Oxford Student</span>, after watching a video of his outburst the police had concluded that they 'could not find any evidence' of hate speech.<br /><br />Strange really, since they - and he - agree that while he never actually said 'slay the Jews', what he <span style="font-style:italic;">did </span> say was a remark in Arabic that translates as 'Khaybar Khaybar, oh Jews, the army of Muhammed will return'.<br /><br />You're probably wondering what 'Khaybar' means. I'll tell you - and then you'll understand why what he said, on any reasonable account, qualifies as hate speech.<br /><br />Khaybar was an oasis not far from medina that was inhabited by Jews before being conquered by Muhammed in the 7th century. It's Jewish inhabitants were later expelled by the Caliph Umar.<br /><br />So the chant Noor Rashid shouted refers to the attacking, conquering, and subsequent ethnic cleansing of Jews. Anti-Semitic? I think so. I just wonder: why do the police seem to think otherwise?<o:p></o:p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><span style=""><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608754230972723221.post-89293876970278113652010-04-15T08:47:00.000-07:002010-04-15T09:54:38.932-07:00When a Bar Mitzvah goes politicalI know I said I wouldn't be writing for a while, but <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1163335.html">this </a>article pissed me off and I wanted a distraction from work.<br /><br />The grandson of Judge Richard Goldstone - who wrote the <a href="http://theedgeofwhere.blogspot.com/2009/11/actually-reading-goldstone-report.html">Goldstone report</a> on the recent Gaza conflict - is due to have his Bar Mitzvah soon. A Bar Mitzvah is meant to be a happy family event, but this one has become a political event, hijacked by the South-African Zionist Federation (SAZF).<br /><br />According to reports cited in the article, the SAZF reached an agreement with the synagogue in which the Bar Mitzvah is due to take place whereby Goldsone would be banned from attending the Bar Mitzvah. The Rosh Bet Din (head of the religious court) in South Africa, Rabbi <span class="t13">Moshe Kurtstag,</span> was reported as saying he had heard the SAZF had also made plans to organize a protest at the shul to stop Goldstone from attending. <span class="t13"></span><br /><br />Clearly, the SAZF and many others feel that Goldstone delegitimized Israel. But to attack him by spoiling his grandson's Bar-Mitzvah is a disgrace. Politics and Bar-Mitzvahs just shouldn't mix - if you feel the same, why not tell the SAZF yourself: sazf@beyachad.co.zaUnknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608754230972723221.post-46518063057335634842010-03-03T00:31:00.000-08:002010-03-03T04:28:06.382-08:00Pappe @ Israel apartheid weekThe Israeli historian calling for a boycott of Israeli universities, Ilan Pappe, spoke in Oxford yesterday on the 1967 war.<br /><br />There were familiar faces in the audience, including the flag-waving protestor shown below accusing the Israeli deputy foreign minister, Danny Ayalon, of war crimes in Gaza (despite the fact he was not actually in the government during the Gaza conflict).<br /><br /><object width="320" height="265"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6w9CGXT4tGA&hl=en_GB&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6w9CGXT4tGA&hl=en_GB&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"></embed></object><br /><br />Then, kicking off the night's proceedings was a short film promoting Israel Apartheid week. The student who put the film on, and then introduced the event, was the very same student who last year screamed at Shimon Peres, breaching Oxford's <a href="http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/statutes/352-051a.shtml#_Toc28142344">code of discipline</a> in the process - though I've no idea if the university did anything about it - and having to be taken out by security.<br /><br /><object width="320" height="265"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-rf1dzKSvUE&hl=en_GB&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-rf1dzKSvUE&hl=en_GB&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"></embed></object><br /><br />Good company.<br /><br />The talk itself, chaired by Avi Shlaim, was certainly thought-provoking. In it, Pappe argued that the 67 war was in fact a war of aggression, not defence, and essentially a war of choice. In arguing this, he explained, he took a longer historical view of events, looking beyond the immediate past of the war.<br /><br />He gave a sketch suggesting that the military and political elite in Israel had always wanted to have the whole of Palestine, arguing that capturing the West Bank had been their aim for some time. This, coupled with the fact that some very military and administrative plans were organised before the war, and that Israel had been engaging in considerable low-level provocation (he said, for example, that Israeli pilots from that time told him in an interview that they were instructed to undertake flying exercizes over Syrian airspace) suggested to him that Israel wanted the 1967 war. Members of the military and political elite, he claimed, cynically conveyed th message of an existential threat - a 'second holocaust' - while in private being confident of Israel's success and strength.<br /><br />But there's a problem. Since returning home I've looked into some of the evidence he provided, and it doesn't add up. Here are some examples:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">(1)Misattributing the Dayan quote</span><br />He quoted Moshe Dayan, the Israeli military leader, as having said: <span style="font-style: italic;">Israel must see the sword as the main, if not the only, instrument with which to keep its morale high and to retain its moral tension. Toward this end it may, no — it must — invent dangers</span><br /><br />It turns out Dayan never actually said that. The wikiquote <a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Moshe_Dayan">entry </a> on it explains:<br /><br /><blockquote>This has been reported to be a direct quotation of Dayan in the diaries of Moshe Sharett, but is actually derived from an interpretive commentary by Livia Rokach in "Israel's Sacred Terrorism" (1980) upon statements of Dayan reported in Sharett's diaries, from accounts provided to him by Ya'acob Herzog and Gideon Raphael — in other words: a third-hand interpretation of Dayan's meaning, based on a second hand report of his arguments. Sharett's summation of Dayan's statements of 26 May 1955 read:<br /><br />We do not need a security pact with the U.S.: such a pact will only constitute an obstacle for us. We face no danger at all of an Arab advantage of force for the next 8-10 years. Even if they receive massive military aid from the West, we shall maintain our military superiority thanks to our infinitely greater capacity to assimilate new armaments. The security pact will only handcuff us and deny us the freedom of action which we need in the coming years. Reprisal actions which we couldn't carry out if we were tied to a security pact are our vital lymph ... they make it possible for us to maintain a high level of tension among our population and in the army. Without these actions we would have ceased to be a combative people and without the discipline of a combative people we are lost. We have to cry out that the Negev is in danger, so that young men will go there....<br /><br />Rokach's interpretive assessment of this diary entry by Sharett produces:<br /><br />The conclusions from Dayan's words are clear: This State has no international obligations, no economic problems, the question of peace is nonexistent... It must calculate its steps narrow-mindedly and live on its sword. It must see the sword as the main, if not the only, instrument with which to keep its morale high and to retain its moral tension. Toward this end it may, no — it must — invent dangers, and to do this it must adopt the method of provocation-and-revenge.. . . And above all — let us hope for a new war with the Arab countries, so that we may finally get rid of our troubles and acquire our space.</blockquote><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">(2) What was the basic zionist project?</span><br />Pappe spoke in his talk about <span style="font-style: italic;">"the basic zionist proect, which started in 1882, which was to de-Arabize and Judaize Palestine."</span><br /><br />This really doesn't add up. Zionism was initially and primarily concerned with Jewish self-determination - the location of Israel/Palestine was one, preferred, possibility, but hardly the 'basic zionist project.'<br /><br />The significance of referring to 1882, as Pappe does, is to refer to the publication of one of the first documents promoting zionism, <span style="font-style: italic;">Autoemancipation!</span> by Leon Pinsker. You can read it <a href="http://www.mideastweb.org/autoemancipation.htm">here</a>.<br /><br />Note that it explicitly states that it wants a homeland <span>wherever</span> it can get one - Palestine is not the issue - so long as the land is fertile and habitable. It suggests as possibilities land in Turkey or a place in North America. See this passage from it below:<br /><br /><blockquote>Therefore, the selection of a permanent, national land, meeting all requirements, must be made with every precaution and confided to one single body... This tract might form a small territory in North America, or a sovereign Pashalik in Asiatic Turkey recognized by the Porte and the other Powers as neutral. It would certainly be an important duty of the directorate to secure the assent of the Porte, and probably of the other European cabinets to this plan. </blockquote><br /><br />Sorry Pappe; there's nothing about 'de-arabizing' Palestine there.<br /><br />Moreover, Pappe's contention about the basic nature of zionism cannot make sense of the famous Uganda plan of 1903. In 1903 the World Zionist Congress debated and voted in favour of establishing a Jewish state in East Africa, after Britain had proposed an autonomous Jewish colony be established there. Jewish self-determination was the essential aim, not de-arabizing Palestine. (Although, yes, the Uganda plan was seen as a temporary measure, with Palestine still being hoped for by many). The establishment of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Territorialist_Organization">Jewish territorialist Organization</a>, associated with zionists such as Israel Zangwill, further gives the lie to Pappe's selective reading of zionist history: this was a case of zionists looking for land in America, Australia, Asia or Africa - anywhere - to establish a Jewish homeland. (They only disbanded after the Balfour declaration in 1917).<br /><br />Finally, zionists such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Buber#Zionist_views">Martin Buber</a> who actually called for a bi-national state, clearly don't fit into Pappe's conception of zionism's basic project of 'de-arabizing' Palestine.<br /><br />In short, zionism is not the hitorically monolithic anti-Arab movement Pappe paints it out to be, but is a movement with various and sometimes antagonistic strands, some of which historically had not interest in Palestine at all. .<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">(3) The occupy-the-West-Bank toy-game claim</span><br />Pappe claimed in his talk that there were toy games made for Israeli children before 1967 all about occupying the West Bank. "you roll the dice and move the pieces," he said. Well I'm skeptical - very skeptical. After 15 minutes googling, I've found nothing about it. If any readers know any different, please tell me. But the idea that such games would have been manufactured and yet there be no record on the internet of them having existed, strikes me as being pretty bizarre, given how much they would indicate, and how quick anti-Israel groups would be to seize on them as evidence of 'zionist expansionism'. So as I said, in the meantime, pending evidence, I'm unconvinced.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">(4) The Mokked plan</span><br />One of Pappe's pieces of evidence that the Israelis wanted war so they could occupy the West Bank was the Mokked plan - a plan developed by Israel in 1965/66 to take out the airforces of the neighbouring Arab states.<br /><br />How is this sufficient evidence? I'm not a military historian, but it would seem to me to be obviously common sense, when surrounded by hostile countries whom you have recently been at war with, to have military plans in place for future conflicts. The existence of this plan can certainly be used as evidence of <span style="font-style: italic;">preparation </span>for war, but not as evidence of an Israeli <span style="font-style: italic;">desire</span> for war.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />This post is getting too long; nearly at the end.<br /><br />Despite the problems listed above, much of what Pappe said challenged me. . In particular he spoke of how before 1967, academics at the Hebrew U organized a legal and administrative framework for ruling the West Bank. This seems like a strange exercize to undertake unless they had an expectation (or desire) that Israel <span style="font-style: italic;">will </span>be occupying the West Bank in the near future. <span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>Also, he quoted from the diary of Uri Avnery, who wrote that he had meetings with the military leader El-Azar, who told him that he 'dreamed' there would be sufficient Arab armies mobilised in Egypt to justify an Israeli attack.<br /><br />Well, I'll need to read more on the matter.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608754230972723221.post-29510162946129983032010-03-01T02:24:00.000-08:002010-03-01T02:50:31.914-08:00Israel apartheid week - a complete abuse of languageIf you go on the <a href="http://apartheidweek.org/">website </a>for Israel Apartheid week, you'll discover that this year it takes place from the 1st to the 14th of March, meaning that it lasts for a fortnight, and not a week as claimed.<br /><br />What a shocking abuse of language (;Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608754230972723221.post-9862833792026068902010-02-28T15:00:00.000-08:002010-02-28T15:23:21.200-08:00Is Israel actually a nation?Does an Israeli nation exist? Strange as it sounds, that's the question Israel's supreme court will be answering this Wednesday. <br /><br />Bernard Avishai explains why on his <a href="http://bernardavishai.blogspot.com/2010/02/nation-of-israel-wait-and-see.html">blog</a>...<br /><blockquote><br />Back in 2005, in a piece for Harper's, I called attention to a curious petition, filed the year before with Israel's High Court of Justice. The petitioners were thirty-eight citizens of Israel, most of them Jews but a number of them Arabs: businesspeople, professors, entertainers, writers, jurists; a past minister of education, a past head of the air force. Their petition enjoined the court to order the Ministry of Interior to inscribe them as “Israeli” in the Registry of Population. Given how much else was being contested in the country, one would think a petition to recognize Israelis as “Israeli” was frivolous. It was anything but that.</blockquote><br /><br />He later quotes Israeli commentator and left wing activist Uri Avnery: <br /><br /><br /><blockquote>The Israeli Interior Ministry recognizes 126 nations, but not the Israeli nation. An Israeli citizen can be registered as belonging to the Assyrian, the Tatar or the Circassian nation. But the Israeli nation? Sorry, no such thing.<br /><br />According to the official doctrine, the State of Israel cannot recognize an "Israeli" nation because it is the state of the "Jewish" nation. In other words, it belongs to the Jews of Brooklyn, Budapest and Buenos Aires, even though these consider themselves as belonging to the American, Hungarian or Argentine nations. Messy? Indeed.</blockquote><br /><br />That 'official doctrine' Avnery talks about was evident some years ago in the judgement of the then head of the Supreme Court of Israel, Shimon Agranat, who explained (in response to a similar petition to recognise an Israeli nationality - see the third paragraph <a href="http://www.adalah.org/newsletter/eng/apr05/comi1.pdf">here </a>for more info):<br /><br /><blockquote> Therefore, if there is in the country today – just 23 years after the establishment of the state – a bunch of people or even more – who ask to separate themselves from the Jewish people and to achieve for themselves the status of a distinct Israeli nation, then such a separatist approach should not be seen as a legitimate approach. It is prohibited to acknowledge this approach, since the principle of the right for national self-determination could not provide any justification for it..</blockquote><br /><br />So there you have it: there's no such thing as an Israeli nation - well, at least not officially (though clearly an Israeli nationality exists for and is claimed by most of what we would call Israeli citizens, and that’s enough for me to say it’s real, whatever its legal status). Let's see if this changes on Wednesday...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608754230972723221.post-19681291630365176372010-02-24T04:05:00.001-08:002010-02-24T10:03:54.322-08:00The state of debate on the Jewish State on campusA Manchester University student paper has <a href="http://www.student-direct.co.uk/2010/02/students-clash-over-israeli-ambassador-visit/">this </a>report ofthe clashes between Israel and Palestine supporters over the invitation and subsequent cancellation of the visit of the deputy Israeli Ambassador to the UK. You can see pictures of the protests <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/studentdirectpics/sets/72157623496956966/">here</a><br /><br />Dan Berkely, one of the students present at the clashes, gave this assessment of the experience:<br /><br /><blockquote>“They were ridiculous protests and became not about politics, but about who could shout louder. That was the problem with the lack of debate in the first place. It was just aggressive people shouting. I’ve never been able to hear their views. All I’m told is, ‘I should be ashamed’ and ‘I’m scum’ and that ‘I’m a murderer’. They don’t know my views and frankly, I don’t know theirs. They never want to sit down and speak. They never want to debate. It’s not politics.”</blockquote>"They don't no my views and frankly, I don't know theirs" - and there's the nub of the problem; something which no amount of shouting will change.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608754230972723221.post-46165376184964619062010-02-22T15:30:00.000-08:002010-02-22T16:07:51.550-08:00Yuli Edelstein - trivialising antisemitism<span class="t13"> Yuli Edelstein, the Israeli Minister of </span><span class="t13">Information and Diaspora</span>, spoke at a dinner hosted by the Zionist Federation on <a href="http://www.zionist.org.uk/index.php?id=58&event=227">Sunday</a>. According to the report on <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1151530.html">Haaretz</a>, he told the audience that the Goldstone report represented a new 'kind' of anti-semitism.<br /><br />Reading this reminded me of something the former head of <a href="http://www.jpr.org.uk/">Jewish Policy Research</a>, Antony Lerman, had <a href="http://www.amazon.com/New-Antisemitism-Debating-Judeophobia-Century/dp/1861976518/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266882458&sr=1-4">written</a>:<br /><br /><blockquote>Some Israel critics are no doubt classic anti-semites using anti-zionism as cover. But the anti-zionism equals antisemitism argument says something else. [Jonathan] Sacks summed it up when he told the Parliamentary Committee against Antisemitism that 'accusing Israel of racism, ethnic cleansing, attempted genocide, crimes against humanity,' is itself antisemitic. Yet to exempt Israel from such allegations is to set the threshold of where legitimate criticism of Israel tips over into antisemitism impossibly low. If we say a British institution is racist, does this imply an ideological anti-Britishness... The anti-Zionism equals antisemitism argument drains the word antisemitism of any useful meaning.<br /></blockquote>To accuse the Goldstone Report of being antisemitic is to trivialise antisemitism.<br /><br />Nothing in the Goldstone report corresponds with historical - 'old' - definitions of antisemitism, which focus on 'hatred of Jews per se, belief in a worldwide Jewish conspiracy, belief that Jews are racially inferior' and so on. Watching <a href="http://video.iptv.org/video/1305873886/">this</a> interview with Goldstone, and having read much of the <a href="http://theedgeofwhere.blogspot.com/2009/11/actually-reading-goldstone-report.html">report </a>myself I found no evidence of any antisemitism in the report - at least understood in the normal way described above.<br /><br />Some critics of Israel claim that the allegation of antisemitism is used to silence criticism of Israel. My impression is that this claim is more often asserted than it is demonstrated. (Indeed, sometimes people make it to try to excuse their own, actual antisemitism, and to silence those who draw attention to it). But the sad fact is, by calling the Goldstone report 'a new antisemitism,' Yuli Edelstein seems to have done just that: using the charge of anti-semitism to undermine Goldstone, so as to deflect or silence criticism of Israel.<br /><span class="t13"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608754230972723221.post-7910968681724747722010-02-22T01:33:00.000-08:002010-02-27T02:08:31.745-08:00Why you should cum to IsraelIt's often said that sex sells in advertising. Well the makers of this Israeli tourism promo certainly thought so...<br /><br />'It's small'<br /><br />'It's paradise'<br /><br /><object width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mI7tAK7-Tn0&hl=en_GB&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mI7tAK7-Tn0&hl=en_GB&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object><br /><br />h/t <a href="http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/">Tikkun Olam</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608754230972723221.post-53533452963694905742010-02-21T15:11:00.000-08:002010-02-21T15:17:39.538-08:00Protests at Manchester UniversityI wrote previously about the invitation to the deputy Israeli Ambassador to speak at Manchester University last week. In the end the embassy cancelled her speech, over <a href="http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?ID=169224">fears </a>for her security.<br /><br />Here is footage of the protests that took place as a result of the whole event - from both Action Palestine members and from students supporting her right to speak in the student union.<br /><br /><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LLtPycOJQrs&hl=en_GB&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LLtPycOJQrs&hl=en_GB&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608754230972723221.post-17781485538147984902010-02-18T03:23:00.000-08:002010-02-18T03:46:12.475-08:00Sacks says no to chicken soupIt's true, it's official, it's amazing...<br /><br />Britain's Chief Rabbi, Lord Professor (etc) Jonathan Sacks, is a vegetarian!<br /><br />He says so in <a href="http://varsitv.co.uk/dcxkjt/?t=1m43s">this </a>interview with Cambridge University's VarsiTV, before adding:<br /><br /><blockquote>I don't miss the Chicken soup, and life is short enough without my inflicting pain on innocent chickens.<br /></blockquote><br />As a sometime <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexitarianism">flexitarian</a>, I'm excited.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608754230972723221.post-82540143817068969052010-02-17T09:17:00.000-08:002010-02-17T10:39:38.474-08:00Manchester's Action Palestine - yes to Hamas, no to IsraelTomorrow afternoon the deputy Israeli ambassador to the UK, Talya Lador-Fresher, is due to give a talk to Manchester University's politics society entitled: ‘Hopes and challenges in the Middle East’.<br /><br />In response the Manchester student group 'Action Palestine' are busy organizing protests. On <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=480902610290&ref=mf">facebook</a> they explain:<br /><br /><blockquote>we are calling a Protest against Israeli War Crimes in Palestine at 2 pm outside the Students Union steps before the Pol Soc meeting on the 18th to show Mrs Talya Lador-Fresher that neither she or the state she represents are welcome on the premises of our democratically run Union that prides itself on being a student-run establishment which does not endorse nor fund apartheid regimes responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians. </blockquote>I'm not altogether sure what they mean when they say 'neither she or the state she represents' are welcome in the Manchester Union. What does it mean to say that 'the state of Israel' is not welcome? I understand saying 'the officials of the state' are not welcome, but <span style="font-style: italic;">the state itself? </span>A citizen of a state is a part of that state. Are Israelis not to be welcome in Manchester Student Union anymore? That's what the message seems to be - even if it is, as I presume, the inadvertent result of a careless writing mistake.<br /><br />But the really striking thing about all this is that only recently Manchester University was graced by <a href="http://www.hurryupharry.org/2010/02/15/is-this-a-hate-speaker/">Assam Tamimi, </a>a Hamas supporter on record as having supported suicide bombing. Did Action Palestine kick up a fuss? No. Clearly they're not too bothered by article's 7 and 13 of the Hamas <a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp">charter</a>, which goes on about the day of judgement coming when muslims 'kill the Jews' (not 'Israelis') and expressly rejects 'peaceful solutions.'Unknownnoreply@blogger.com10