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Israel and Palestine
Context
This page lists my academic and opinion papers on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (more frequent informal postings are on my blog).
My anarchist leanings magnify my suspicion about any movement seeking a nation state, but my primary interest is ending injustice. Despite inevitable complexity, supporting Palestinian efforts to end Israeli oppression is the priority. I long ago reached the conclusion that Zionist efforts to create a state that's both Jewish and democratic cannot succeed. I remain concerned about the people I know, and know about, on both sides of the line.
After high school I spent 1966-67 in Israel on a program organized by the Zionist youth group Young Judaea. In 1972 I returned to Israel with a group I co-founded that planned to build a new kibbutz. Four months later I left Israel. Except for a few newspaper columns critical of Israel after the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacres, I avoided the topic for many years, no longer a Zionist but not yet taking the next step.
In 2001 I returned to the issue. I have since visited Israel and the West Bank three times:
Some of the books on the subject I've recently read.
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2009
2008
Radio Interview
- This Week in Palestine with Sherif Fam, WZBC-Boston: Gaza (November, 2008)
2007
2006
2005
Radio Interview
2004
2003
Media Interviews
- War Forum with Rebecca Love. Brookline Access TV, Brookline, Massachusetts (6/18/03)
- Censored History with Bonnie Perkins, KPFZ 104.5 FM Community Radio, Lake County, California (1/4/03)
2002
Repression: The issue that started me on this topic again
Generating discussion in Brookline, Massachusetts
Anti-Semitism and other issues the peace/justice left should address
Other Commentaries
Radio Interviews
- Jean Feraca Show, Wisconsin Public Radio: Israel/Palestine and the Left (6/6/02)
- Chuck Morse Conservative Radio WROL-AM 950 Boston (5/3/02)
2001
Years of Avoidance....
1982-83
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