In this essay, I’m going to argue that the continuing opposition to Israel’s war on Gaza should be centrally grounded in a determined opposition to the whole Zionist project. No sympathies for any variant of Zionism or any political formation that does not reject Zionism should be allowed to dilute support for the complete replacement […]
What Eisenhower Told Ben-Gurion
In 1956, Israel, in cooperation with Britain and France invaded the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula. They were overly confident that they would not be stopped. “Then the roof fell in.” Eisenhower, the US President, was furious at Britain and France for having taken over the Suez Canal and supported UN demands that the […]
Interview with One Democratic State Initiative
Introduction The One Democratic State Initiative (ODSI) represents a distinctive political position in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine. We are reasonably sure that other individuals and perhaps organizations, that we don’t know about, hold similar views and we do not intend to elevate this organization above others in that struggle. On the other […]
From the River to the Sea, Do you condemn Israel?
Jephthah then called together the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. The Gileadites struck them down because the Ephraimites had said, “You Gileadites are renegades from Ephraim and Manasseh.” The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a survivor of Ephraim said, “Let me cross over,” the men of Gilead asked him, […]
A History of Capitalism in Palo Alto: An Interview With Malcolm Harris
Wendy Liu is the author of Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism. She lives in San Francisco and is working on a novel. The following is an interview with Malcolm Harris, author of this year’s national bestseller, Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World. Palo Alto is a dense […]
The Israel Project: The Beginning of the End?
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. –Winston Churchill, November 1942 Say what you want of the old imperious warhorse Winston Churchill, he sure could coin a phrase. The above-cited quote is one worth keeping in your back […]