October to November: Israel/Gaza readings III
In this third edition, we get a little deeper than previous editions, pushing in to some key controversies, such as around terms like "genocide", "pogrom", "settler colonialism", and "ceasefire" and on the nature of Hamas. For the whole series, click here.
Statements
- Our Jewish Values - important and wise statement by UK Jewish rabbis and communal leaders for peace and a two-state solution
- Ukrainian left statement of solidarity with the people of Palestine
- Israeli sociologists and their allies respond to a sociologists' open letter for Gaza
- One month after October 7: J-Street statement
- A letter from Berlin: critical scholars address the German public sphere
- Leaving letter to DSA by 24 long-time members
Analysis and terminology
- Martin Shaw on the uses and abuses of the term genocide in relation to Gaza (6 November)
- Genocide scholar Omer Bartov argues against the claim that what is happening in Gaza is genocide but warns of potential for genocide and that it might be a war crime) (10 November) [archived]
- Dov Waxman responds to Raz Segal's "Textbook case of Genocide" in Jewish Currents
- Maxim Pensky on who is committing genocide in the Middle East (17 October)
- Uriel Abulof: ‘Colonialism’? ‘Apartheid’? Interrogating the language of Israel-Palestine (2 November)
- Alan Johnson on the term "settler colonialism" (10 November)
Reportage
- Mohammad Matar on settler violence in the West Bank (25 October)
- If it's not helping, then shut the F up: Micah L Sifry on Standing Together (8 November)
- Arwa Damon on how the conflict is traumatising a whole new generation, on both sides (3 November)
- Testimonies from Gaza of life under Hamas rule (3 November)
Responding to right-wing instrumentalisation of the conflict
- Jonathan Freedland on Suella Braverman and the others who seek to exploit Jewish and Muslim pain (10 November)
- Dimi Reider on why Douglas Murray and his ilk are no allies to Jews (10 November)
Responding to left-wing takes
- Mitchell Abidor on US left responses (9 November) [FR]
- Martin Thomas against bans, but against slippery slogans (7 November)
- David Schraub on legitimate slogans used to taunt (10 November) (actually, browse David's entire blog)
- Jon Lansman on what the left gets wrong about Israel (8 November)
- Ni patries, ni frontieres: three texts in English on the French left and Hamas (10-29 October)
- Carly Pildis on left-wing calls for ceasefire (2 November)
Responding to far right entrism in the anti-Israel movement
- Kiera Butler on the far right's big lie of Palestine support (25 October)
- It's Going Down on neo-Nazi infiltration of marches (30 October)
- Ben Lorber on combating far-right entryism in Palestine solidarity protests (20 October)
On antisemitism
- Historian David Feldman on antisemitism and the current crisis (7 November) [archive]
- Brendan McGeever and David Feldman on slaughter and solidarity (9 November)
- Sina Arnold on antisemitism and projection in Germany (28 October)
Personal reflection
- Linda Grant on being a British Jew in 2023 (10 November)
- Dana El Kurd on memory voids and role reversals - reflecting from the Jewish Museum in Berlin (1 November)
Geopolitics
- Saladdin Ahmed on Erdogan’s 2023 neo-Ottoman imperialist agenda, from the Caucasus to the Mediterranean (19 October)
Class analysis
- Interview with Emilio Minassian (30 October) [in French]
Audio and video
- Haymarket Books webinar "From Ukraine to Palestine, Occupation is a Crime", with Dana El-Kurd, Daria Saburova, Joseph Daher and Ramah Kudaimi (2 November)
Truth wars
Resources
- An extraordinary massive dump of free whole books on Israel/Palestine (leans anti-Zionist, but some great books here nonetheless
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