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Preparing Israel for war
Thursday, 22 March 2012, 2:15 pm | Neve Gordon
Recent raids on Gaza were not just about allocating more money to defense - they were also about war with Iran. In response to the recent assassination of Zuhair al-Qaisi, the Secretary General of the Popular Resistance Committees in the Gaza ... More >>
Is Israel preparing an assault against Iran?
Monday, 21 November 2011, 2:56 pm | Neve Gordon
The IAEA report on Iran's alleged nuclear programme was surrounded by a media frenzy in Israel supporting an attack. Skimming the newspapers as I rushed to get my children ready for school, I suddenly understood that Israel might actually be preparing for ... More >>
The one-sided US veto
Wednesday, 21 September 2011, 10:23 am | Neve Gordon
US President Barack Obama's decision to use the US' veto prerogative if the United Nations votes to recognise a Palestinian state will constitute a blow to those seeking peace in the Middle East. More >>
Israel's crackdown grows with boycott bill
Friday, 15 July 2011, 10:56 am | Neve Gordon
The Knesset recently passed a bill making it illegal to advocate boycotts of goods produced in Israeli settlements. Political change is slow. One doesn't go to sleep in a democracy and wake up in a fascist regime. The citizens of Egypt and Tunisia ... More >>
Israel's new laws promote repression
Thursday, 12 May 2011, 12:40 pm | Neve Gordon
The millions of people who have been protesting - from Tunis, Egypt and Libya, to Bahrain, Yemen and Syria - appear to have recognised this truism and are demanding the end of emergency law and the drafting of new constitutions that will guarantee ... More >>
Israeli media 'fears' the new Egypt
Thursday, 24 February 2011, 12:14 pm | Neve Gordon
Over the past three weeks the Israeli media has been extremely interested in Egypt. During the climatic days of the unprecedented demonstrations, television news programmes spent most of their airtime covering the protests, while the daily papers dedicated ... More >>
Israel's Assault on Human Rights
Thursday, 13 January 2011, 11:34 am | Neve Gordon
Imagine a college student returning to her university after spending Christmas break at home. At the airport she logs on to the Internet to double check some of the sources she used in her final take-home exam for the course “Introduction to Human Rights.” ... More >>
Uprooting the Bedouins of Israel
Saturday, 4 December 2010, 12:09 pm | Neve Gordon
Uprooting the Bedouins of Israel THE NATION Neve Gordon | 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. The difference is not because ... More >>
Neve Gordon: One-Sided Deal
Tuesday, 16 November 2010, 1:51 pm | Neve Gordon
Imagine a sheriff offering the head of a criminal gang the following deal: 'If you agree to stop stealing from your neighbours for three months, I'll give you cutting edge weaponry and block any efforts by other law enforcement authorities to restrain ... More >>
One-Sided Deal
Tuesday, 16 November 2010, 10:15 am | Neve Gordon
Imagine a sheriff offering the head of a criminal gang the following deal: 'If you agree to stop stealing from your neighbours for three months, I'll give you cutting edge weaponry and block any efforts by other law enforcement authorities to restrain ... More >>
Neve Gordon: And the State, is it Loyal?
Saturday, 21 August 2010, 2:28 pm | Neve Gordon
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 the remaining ... More >>
Ethnic cleansing in the Israeli Negev
Thursday, 29 July 2010, 3:16 pm | Neve Gordon
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 ... More >>
BDS campaign wants Israel to abide by IL
Monday, 12 July 2010, 3:35 pm | Neve Gordon
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 ... More >>
Pirates in the Mediterranean
Wednesday, 2 June 2010, 1:37 pm | Neve Gordon
“Why didn’t they greet us with muffins and orange juice?” was my friend’s facetious question after listening all morning to the Israeli media’s coverage of the assault on the relief flotilla heading for Gaza, the navy assault that left ... More >>
Even picnics in Israel are political
Thursday, 27 May 2010, 2:53 pm | Neve Gordon
Our farewell picnic to Ezra Nawi before his prison term for peaceful protest carried a new message to most Israeli picnics Picnics like almost everything else in Israel are often political. Oz Shelach underscores this point in his collection of short ... More >>
Rachel Corrie's Memory, Israel's Image
Friday, 19 March 2010, 3:36 pm | Neve Gordon
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 (ISM). ... More >>
Breaking Palestine's peaceful protest
Thursday, 24 December 2009, 11:31 am | Neve Gordon
"Why," I have often been asked, "haven't the Palestinians established a peace movement like the Israeli Peace Now ?" The question itself is problematic, being based on many erroneous assumptions, such as the notion that there is symmetry between the ... More >>
Neve Gordon: On Palestinian Civil Disobedience
Monday, 28 September 2009, 3:34 pm | Neve Gordon
Sometime in 1846, Henry David Thoreau spent a night in jail because he refused to pay his taxes. This was his way of opposing the Mexican-American War as well as the institution of slavery. A few years later he published the essay Civil Disobedience ... More >>
Israeli PM Netanyahu is beginning to sweat
Monday, 15 June 2009, 10:57 am | Neve Gordon
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 between the two ... More >>
Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's shame
Thursday, 26 March 2009, 3:00 pm | Neve Gordon
Thanks to Binyamin Netanyahu's overweening ambition, Israel is to be saddled with a foreign minister who is a national disgrace Imagine a country that appoints someone who has been found guilty of striking a 12-year-old boy to be its foreign minister. ... More >>
