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Israeli Criticism of Zionism and of Israel's Treatment of the Palestinians: The Academics and Activists

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[34] "The collapse began today," by Gershom Gorenberg, Haaretz, July 15, 2008. Gershom Gorenberg is the author of The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977. He blogs at southjerusalem.com. See also "The War to Begin All Wars," by Gershom Gorenberg, New York Review of Books, Volume 56 Number 9, May 28, 2009. See also "Settling for Radicalism : How the Israeli government has fostered religious extremism and fractured its own democracy," by Gershom Gorenberg, The American Prospect, June 15, 2009.

[35] Sammy Smooha, author of Israel: Pluralism and Conflict, (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1978); The Orientation and Politicization of the Arab Minority in Israel, (Haifa: The JewishArab Center, University of Haifa, 1984); Arabs and Jews in Israel. Vol. 1: Conflicting and Shared Attitudes in a Divided Society, (Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1989); and Arabs and Jews in Israel. Vol. 2: Change and Continuity in Mutual Intolerance, (Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1992).

[36] "Tired but Satisfied Israels Strategies in the Demographic War Against the Palestinians from 1948 to the Present," by Yossi Schwartz, Alternative Information Center (AIC), October 7, 2008.

[37] "Closure and Apartheid: Eight Years of "Peace" through Separation," by Allegra Pacheco, Media Monitors Network, February 15, 2001. Allegra Pacheco, an Israeli human rights attorney practicing in Bethlehem, is a founder of the Freedom of Movement Project.

[38] "If All Rabbis Were Like Arik Ascherman, Middle East Peace Would Be Attainable," by Pat McDonnell Twair, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, October 2001, page 15.

[39] "The end of Israel," by Hannah Mermelstein, The Electronic Intifada, December 19, 2007; see also, "This land was theirs," by Hannah Mermelstein, The Jewish Advocate (Boston), March 22, 2008. Hannah Mermelstein is cofounder and codirector of Birthright Unplugged, which takes mostly Jewish North American people into the West Bank to meet with Palestinian people and to equip them to return to their own communities and work for justice; and takes Palestinian children from refugee camps to Jerusalem, the sea, and the villages their grandparents fled in 1948, and supports them to document their experiences and create photography exhibits to share with their communities and with the world.

[40] "On the way to a pariah state," by Carlo Strenger, Haaretz, September 25, 2007; "Zionism? PostZionism? Just give arguments," by Carlo Strenger, Haaretz, December 20, 2007; and "I accuse," by Carlo Strenger, Haaretz, September 29, 2008.

[41] Oren Yiftachel, "The Jailer State," New Matilida.com, January 12, 2009, republished in Jewish Peace News, January 17, 2009. Professor Oren Yiftachel teaches political geography and urban planning at BenGurion University, Beersheba. Yiftachel has written extensively on the political geography of ethnic conflict. Among his books are: Ethnocracy: Land and Identity Politics in Israel/Palestine, (2006, Penn Press), and Israelis in Conflict, ed. (Sussex Academic Press, 2004). He is an occasional contributor to Israel's leading newspapers Haaretz and YNet News. Yiftachel is an active member in several peace and civil society organizations, including B'tselem, the Bedouin Council of Unrecognized Villages, Adva and is a founding member of Faculty for Israel Palestine Peace (FFIPP).

[42] Ilan Pappe, Britain and the ArabIsraeli Conflict, 194851, (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1988); and The Making of the ArabIsraeli Conflict, 19471951, (London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1994).

[43] Jacobo Timerman, The Longest War: Israel in Lebanon, translated by Miguel Acoca, (New York: Vintage Books, 1982). He is the author of the best selling book Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number.

[44] "A state of all its citizens," by Neve Gordon, The Guardian, April 20, 2007. See also, "Boycott Israel: An Israeli comes to the painful conclusion that it's the only way to save his country," by Neve Gordon, Los Angeles Times, August 20, 2009. For the reaction this opinion piece evoked see, "Hysteria follows LA Times op-ed," MuzzleWatch click here See also "Education Minister slams Israeli lecturer's 'apartheid' oped," by Barak Ravid, Haaretz, Correspondent and Haaretz Services, Haaretz, August 23, 2009. For a balanced article see "University urges lecturer who endorsed boycott to resign," by Ilana Curiel, YNet News, August 28, 2009. For an Israel academic opinion in support of Gordon see, "Israeli academics must pay the price to end occupation," by Anat Matar, Haaretz, August 27, 2009. See also letter from the Middle East Studies Association Committee on Academic Freedom in Support of Professor Neve Gordon, dated August 27, 2009. See also "Ben-Gurion U. Debates Cost of Academic Freedom," by Nathan Jeffay, The Forward, September 11, 2009.

[45] See IsraCampus.org.il and see "How much blood should be spilled in vain?," by Avraham Oz, Occupation Magazine, August 23, 2005; "This is my country. As it is commonly known, "the only democracy in the Middle East," by Avraham Oz, Occupation Magazine, September 20, 2005; and "Toughts of an Israeli War Resister," by Avraham Oz, Occupation Magazine, July 25, 2006.

[46] "JNF's blatant hypocrisy: Why can JNF land be leased to nonJewish immigrants, but not to Arabs?," by Dror Etkes, YNet News, October 4, 2007.

[47] "Say goodbye to the JNF," by Erik Schechter, The Jerusalem Post, August 5, 2007. The writer is the former military correspondent for The Jerusalem Post and is based in Tel Aviv.

[48] See, "Israel's blonde bombshells and real bombs in Gaza," by Yosefa Loshitzky, Electronic Intafada, January 5, 2009. Her most recent books are Identity Politics on the Israeli Screen, (2001) and (as editor) Spielberg's Holocaust: Critical Perspectives on Schindler's List, (1997).

[49] "A Palestinian State Within Two Years," by Yacov Ben Efrat, Challenge Magazine, August 31, 2009. Challenge Magazine is an electronic publication which "covers the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." Its web site is http://www.challengemag.com/en/home

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