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Why We Need To Challenge Russia’s Human Shields
Monday, 4 April 2022, 12:23 pm | Neve Gordon
Since Russia's invasion began in late February 2022, universities, schools, theatres , hospitals, and many other civilian sites in Ukraine have been destroyed by Russian shelling and more than four million people have so far fled the country. Faced with ... More >>
Does it really matter if Netanyahu ends up behind bars?
Saturday, 12 August 2017, 1:35 pm | Neve Gordon
Does it really matter if Netanyahu ends up behind bars? Neve Gordon “Background noise,” was the way Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu characterized the decision of his former chief of staff, Ari Harow, to become a state witness. The ... More >>
Netanyahu's 'Ethnic Cleansing': The human rights of settlers
Tuesday, 13 September 2016, 3:46 pm | Neve Gordon
Just a few weeks after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that he cares about the rights and lives of Palestinians in Gaza more than the Palestinian leadership does, he posted a new video message on his Facebook wall, arguing that any future ... More >>
The human rights crisis is about domination, not perception
Monday, 29 June 2015, 11:52 am | Neve Gordon
When Israel is criticized about its rights-abusive policies in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the refrain most often heard among local politicians is that the government’s hasbara —the Israeli propaganda machine—is inadequate. The problem, in other ... More >>
Time to Erase Israel’s Green Line
Thursday, 18 June 2015, 9:14 pm | Neve Gordon
About fifty students sat on the concrete floor of a makeshift shack, absorbing the desert heat as they listened to Salim talk about the imminent destruction of Umm al Hiran and Atir, two unrecognized Bedouin villages located twenty minutes from ... More >>
Time to Erase Israel’s Green Line
Thursday, 18 June 2015, 9:05 pm | Neve Gordon
About fifty students sat on the concrete floor of a makeshift shack, absorbing the desert heat as they listened to Salim talk about the imminent destruction of Umm al Hiran and Atir, two unrecognized Bedouin villages located twenty minutes from ... More >>
Israel votes Apartheid | Neve Gordon
Sunday, 22 March 2015, 4:37 pm | Neve Gordon
Benjamin Netanyahu is truly a magician. Just this past Friday, most polls indicated that his Likud party would likely receive around 21 seats in the Israeli Knesset, four seats less than Yitzhak (Bougie) Herzog’s Zionist Camp (Labor Party’s new ... More >>
Drones and the new ethics of war
Wednesday, 28 January 2015, 4:52 pm | Neve Gordon
This Christmas small drones were among the most popular gift under the tree in the U.S. with manufacturers stating that they sold 200,000 new unmanned aerial vehicles during the holiday season. More >>
Israel's dissenting voices get lost in the war echo chamber
Tuesday, 15 July 2014, 2:35 pm | Neve Gordon
For several days now, some of my neighbours have suggested that the time has come to "destroy them"- meaning either Hamas or Palestinians - "once and for all". The rockets being fired from Gaza clearly do have the effect of raising the level of ... More >>
Center-staging the calamities of collaboration
Sunday, 9 March 2014, 1:36 pm | Neve Gordon
Center-staging the calamities of collaboration, Elliott Colla’s noir thriller exposes the moral and strategic failures of military occupation. More >>
Every Person Has a Name | Neve Gordon
Friday, 3 January 2014, 2:01 pm | Neve Gordon
Ten days ago some 200 asylum seekers from Sudan and Eritrea marched to Jerusalem to protest against their mistreatment by the Israeli government. They had left a new ‘open’ detention facility in the Negev desert, where they are obliged to ... More >>
Escape Route from the Nuclear Shadow over the Middle East
Monday, 16 December 2013, 11:56 am | Neve Gordon
Across the globe headlines pronounced that a "breakthrough agreement" had been reached in Geneva. Iran's atomic ambitions had been curbed in exchange for limited sanctions relief, thus deflating the longstanding military standoff. More >>
Being Honest about the Dominant Zionist Narrative
Monday, 19 August 2013, 12:31 pm | Neve Gordon
The Israeli mayor of Upper Nazareth, Shimon Gaspo, is an honest man. As part of his bid for re-election in the town which overlooks the ancient Palestinian city of Nazareth, he has launched a well-orchestrated political campaign. More >>
Israel’s Indigenous Invaders’
Saturday, 13 July 2013, 1:06 pm | Neve Gordon
How Israel justifies the immanent relocation of thousands of Palestinian Bedouin by characterizing them as invaders. On June 24th the “Prawer Plan for the Arrangement of Bedouin-Palestinian Settlement in the Negev” passed its first reading in the ... More >>
Neve Gordon: Five Ways of Looking at the Knesset
Friday, 25 January 2013, 10:00 am | Neve Gordon
This is the way the results of the elections are being presented in the Israeli press: Centre Left Bloc___________________________Right Bloc More >>
Salam Fayyad, the World Bank and the Oslo Game
Friday, 28 September 2012, 12:15 pm | Neve Gordon
Most Palestinian analysts maintain that the Oslo agreements are to blame for the collapse of the Palestinian economy. Triggered by gas-price increases, tens of thousands of Palestinian taxi, truck and bus drivers in the West Bank observed a one-day strike, ... More >>
Perpetual Peace
Tuesday, 3 July 2012, 1:45 pm | Neve Gordon
Last year I gave the Israeli artist Amir Nave an old Hebrew copy of Immanuel Kant’s Perpetual Peace , which I teach every so often in my Introduction to Political Theory class. He took the book, flipped through it, ripped out the title page, turned it ... More >>
South Africa: What's in a label?
Monday, 18 June 2012, 3:28 pm | Neve Gordon
South Africa's recent demand that products originating in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and Golan Heights remove the label "Made in Israel" is extremely significant - much more so than the European Union's decision to deny these products ... More >>
Neve Gordon: Erasing the Nakba
Thursday, 17 May 2012, 9:42 am | Neve Gordon
Erasing the Nakba Israel’s Tireless Efforts To Conceal The Historical Events Leading To Its Creation More >>
Uprooting 30,000 Bedouin in Israel
Thursday, 5 April 2012, 4:30 pm | Neve Gordon
Plans to move entire communities and put them in townships would deprive them of their livelihood and land rights. More >>