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Gordon: Israel's Assault on Human Rights
Commentary, January, 13 2011
Neve Gordon
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The ongoing delegitimization of those watchdogs of democracy—human rights NGOs, the press and public intellectuals—is leading Israel down a steep and slippery slope.
Gordon: Uprooting the Bedouins of Israel
Commentary, December, 08 2010
Neve Gordon
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Despite the fact that it was the seventh demolition since last July, this time the destruction of the Bedouin village Al-Arakib in the Israeli Negev was different.
Gordon: Thought Crimes
Commentary, November, 09 2010
Neve Gordon
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Would Meryl Streep, Spike Lee, Tim Robbins or Susan Sarandon be willing to swear an oath of loyalty to the United States and its policies in order to receive public funding for feature films that they star in, direct or produce?
Gordon: Untenurable: The Firing of Ariella Azoulay
Commentary, October, 07 2010
Neve Gordon
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“Everything is political,” cultural theorists often claim. Recently, Bar Ilan University in Israel, decided to prove them right.
Gordon: McCarthy in Israel
Commentary, August, 30 2010
Neve Gordon
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On May 31, I joined some 50 students and faculty members who gathered outside Ben-Gurion University of the Negev to demonstrate against the Israeli military assault on the flotilla carrying humanitarian aid toward Gaza. In response, the next day a...
Gordon: And the State, is it Loyal?
Commentary, August, 25 2010
Neve Gordon
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Several weeks ago, hundreds of students demonstrated in front of Ben-Gurion University’s administration building. About a third of the protestors were expressing their opposition to the government’s decision to attack the relief flotilla, while th...
Gordon: Ethnic cleansing in the Israeli Negev
Commentary, August, 03 2010
Neve Gordon
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A menacing convoy of bulldozers was heading back to Be'er Sheva as I drove towards al-Arakib, a Bedouin village located not more than 10 minutes from the city. Once I entered the dirt road leading to the village I saw scores of vans with heavily a...
Gordon: BDS campaign wants Israel to abide by international law
Commentary, July, 12 2010
Neve Gordon
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There is a considerable amount of misunderstanding about the BDS (Boycott Divestment and Sanctions). As John Berger explained a while back, BDS is not a principle but a strategy; it is not against Israel but against Israeli policy; when the policy...
Gordon: Land of Security Know-How
Commentary, May, 22 2010
Neve Gordon
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Richard Goldstone has learned a lesson or two in the past year. Ever since Goldstone, a self-proclaimed Jewish Zionist South African judge, authored a UN report charging Israel (and Hamas) with war crimes, he has been subjected to a well-orchestra...
Gordon: Rachel Corrie's Memory, Israel's Image
Commentary, March, 18 2010
Neve Gordon
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Seven years ago, Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by a Caterpillar D9R Israeli bulldozer while nonviolently protesting the demolition of Palestinian homes in Rafah, Gaza Strip, along with other members of the International Solidarity Movement (I...
Gordon: On Palestinian Civil Disobedience
Commentary, September, 28 2009
Neve Gordon
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A simple google search with the words "Palestinian violence" yields over 86,000 pages, while a search with the words "Palestinian civil disobedience" generates only 47 pages.
Gordon: Boycott Israel
Commentary, August, 21 2009
Neve Gordon
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An Israeli comes to the painful conclusion that it's the only way to save his country.
Gordon: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is beginning to sweat
Commentary, June, 12 2009
Neve Gordon
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Notwithstanding the agreement between President Barack Obama and Netanyahu on issues such as the recognition of Israel as a Jewish state and the insistence that the Palestinians renounce violence, there are currently points of serious contention b...
Gordon: Israeli activist to be jailed for caring
Commentary, May, 07 2009
Neve Gordon
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Ezra Nawi was ridiculed and arrested for trying to protect people's homes. Only international attention can help him now.
Gordon: The Land, Not the People
Commentary, June, 06 2008
Neve Gordon
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Israel has decided to alter its methods of upholding the occupation, replacing a politics of life, which aimed to secure the existence and livelihood of the Palestinian inhabitants, with a politics of death.
