A land for all its people?
Ran Greenstein examines a new civil initiative that looks beyond the one-state/two-states paradigm
In the last decade, political debate on the Left has focused on the one-state/two-states issue.
Ran Greenstein is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa. He has written extensively on the genealogies of the conflicts in Palestine/Israel and South Africa.
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The Jewish peace camp's attempt at rebirth in Europe
The name J Street is already taken, so this is called J Call. On 3rd May, in Brussels, a new European Jewish movement for peace between Israelis and Palestinians will be launched.
The English text of the European Jewish Call for Reason is available at http://www.jcall.eu/?lang=en
Translated from the French by Idit Arad
Original article in le Monde: http://mobile.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/article/2010/04…
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Maccabees, Miracles and Zionists...
…and how to get the balance right.
Robert Cohen is the author of Micah's Paradigm Shift, a blog that reflects on Israel/Palestine from a UK, progressive Jewish and non-Zionist perspective.
This piece is cross-posted with Robert Cohen's blog.
For related pieces, see Tony Karom's piece on Rootless Cosmopolitan last year, 'Hannukah and the Jewish Taliban' and Christopher Hitchens piece from 2007 at Slate.