Articles collection (2012): On Israeli state power, ethnic cleansing, and liberal alibis
(Full booklet linked here.)
This collection brings together a few articles from last year (i.e. 2011), including one for Race & Class previously unavailable for copyright reasons. Rather than repeat the introduction here, I'll perhaps leave it at that...
European Politics on Palestine (An interview with David Cronin)
May 7, 2012 (Palestine Chronicle)
David Cronin is one of the leading public critics of European policies on Palestine. He has written for a variety of publications across Europe, has served as European correspondent for The Sunday Tribune (Dublin) and as Brussels correspondent for the Inter Press Service news agency, and is the author of Europe’s Alliance with Israel: Aiding the Occupation (2011).
Kadima's Black Flags and Israel's Image Problem
November 29, 2011 (Dissident Voice)
Israel is currently experiencing an internationally visible collapse of its ‘liberal democratic’ camp, raising significant problems for a state whose underlying theocratic and apartheid features have historically been partially covered from international view by liberal democratic pretenses.
“All-out war”? Nixon's Logic in 21st-Century Israel
September 8, 2011 (ZNet)
(On Israeli nuclear threats and doctrine.)
Mahal and the Dispossession of the Palestinians
Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 40, No. 2 (Winter 2011), pp. 43-61.
Article reviewing the role of overseas volunteers, mostly Jewish recruits from North America, Europe, and South Africa, in Zionist military operations involving the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian communities in 1948.
(Full PDF reproduced courtesy of JPS.)
Israeli State Power and its Liberal Alibis
Race & Class, January-March 2011.
Article on Zionism, the liberal colonial conscience, and the use of 'self-determination' rhetoric to justify the politics of ethnic cleansing.
International Background to Flotilla Massacre
June 1, 2010; Huffington Post blog article on June 4*