[Cross-posted at Z Word.] Can you imagine a journalist for a liberal newspaper referring in neutral, even vaguely congratulatory terms to an artist's "provocatively anti-gay rhetoric," or "provocatively anti-black rhetoric," or "provocatively anti-Arab rhetoric"? Well, have a look at John Lewis's pr...

According to Hegel, attaining 'self-consciousness' is a process that necessarily involves the other. How am I to become conscious of myself in general? It is simply through desire or anger, for example. Unlike animals that overcome biological needs by destroying another organic entity, human desire ...

As regular readers know, Tony Greenstein has been focused (obsessed, actually) for at least 3 years on trying to smear and defame Gilad Atzmon. Ever since Gilad criticised the "internal lobbying" of a group of Secular Jewish activists who were calculating to exclude other activists from continuing i...

(A talk given on the First of March 2008 at Invitation to Learn’s weekend retreat) At the left, "Innocent" by Ben Heine “They (the Palestinians) will bring upon themselves a bigger holocaust because we will use all our might to defend ourselves� (Matan Vilnai, Israeli Deputy Defence Minister, ...

The Tory leader David Cameron seems to be struggling these days. After calling government funding for school visits to the former Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz a ‘gimmick’, he’s facing demands for an apology. In a speech on Friday, Cameron accused Prime Minister Gordon Brown's governmen...

My article published on AMIN (Arabic Media Internet Network) http://www.amin.org/look/amin/en.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=7&NrArticle=44670&NrIssue=1&NrSection=3 By the way, there are many comments that have been sent, and they will be posted in a few days! Busy over here!! BUT, t...

A story is told of a Londoner, a Jewish man who was riding on the London Underground reading an Arab newspaper. A friend of his, who happened to be riding in the same underground car, noticed this strange phenomenon. Very upset, he approached the newspaper reader. "Moishe, have you lost your mind? W...

Once again, rabid Zionists have united with the so-called 'Jewish anti-Zionists protagonists'. This time, they insist upon believing that I am a Holocaust Denier. It all started when a site that specialises in texts known as “Holocaust Denial� linked to an Iranian paper that reported that the Ge...

Why ethnic campaigning can be unethicalby Mary Rizzo This blog recently has had some attention from Tony Greenstein . Taking a detour from his general direction of activism (sic) which boils down to exclusively attacking a growing list of other Pro-Palestinian activists - posting the same article th...

The Road from Music to EthicsAn alternative take on the Israeli Palestinian conflict and peace activism (Postscript by Manuel Talens) Rather often I face the same question when interviewed by Arab media outlets: “Gilad, how is it that you observe that which so many Israelis fail to see?� Indeed,...