Harry's Place

Cross-posted from Eric Lee at TULIP
A few years back, British unions of academics debated the question of whether to show their solidarity with the Palestinians by boycotting Israeli academics.
Eventually that tactic was dropped in part because of a very effective campaign by many academics and others who argued that a boycott of Israelis constituted an [...]

This is a cross-post by Marc Goldberg
There is a new Knesset sitting in Jerusalem and soon there will a new government running our lives. We have also found out today that Barack Obama, the most powerful man in the world, will soon be arriving in the Middle East, presumably to ensure that there is some [...]

This is a guest post by Matt Hill
In an article at The Independent today I argue that the widespread pessimism surrounding a two-state solution for the Israel-Palestine conflict is misplaced. Contrary to common assumptions, West Bank settlements haven’t made the creation of a Palestinian state impossible. There is agreement in the international community and among Palestinian and [...]

Karl Pfeifer interviewed Yoav Gelber, a professor of history at the University of Haifa and formerly a visiting professor at The University of Texas at Austin.

Karl Pfeifer: In your seminal book Historia, Sikaron veTaamula published in Tel Aviv in 2007 (History, Memory and Propaganda, The Historical Discipline at the Beginning of the 21st Century) you [...]

This is a cross-post from Marc Goldberg
Anti-Semitism in the UK is back on the radar and rightly so. It started two days ago when David Ward the Liberal Democrat MP for Bradford East became the latest person to use the Holocaust Memorial Day to lambast the Jews, he said that;
“Having visited Auschwitz twice – once [...]

This is a guest post by Matt Hill
One of the main arguments put forward in defence of Israel’s continued presence in the occupied territories is that Israeli governments have done their utmost to strike a deal to end the conflict, only for the Palestinians to rebuff them. Israel would only be too happy to give [...]

This is a cross-post from Marc Goldberg
Anyone who has followed even a fraction of my blogs here at TOI [Times of Israel] will know that I spend an awful lot of my time pointing out the failings of our Prime Minister and his government, my opinions in that regard haven’t changed. The thing is [...]

When I first read this story, in the Jerusalem Post, I picked up on the way it could be read, or deployed, in favour of a somewhat pro-Israel ‘narrative’ – used to draw attention to the way Israel’s treatment of prisoners is a big story whereas the PA’s worse record is overlooked:
LONDON – An Arab [...]

His widow Suha reveals the not-so-shocking news that it was far from the spontaneous uprising claimed at the time.

Anyone dismayed (as I am) by the growing strength in Israel of the far Right, and the weakening of the movement for peace, needs to understand this and what it was like to live in Israel during [...]

This is a cross post from Student Rights
This week Student Rights have been contacted by students at University College London (UCL) who have raised the issue of a referendum that is taking place at the university entitled ‘We condemn the inhumane situation in Gaza’.
Supported by the presidents of UCL’s Friends of Palestine, Anti-War, Amnesty and Islamic Societies, the vote seeks to [...]