Interview: Mapping the disappearance of a nation
Malkit Shoshan’s The Atlas of the Conflict — Israel-Palestine won the annual book design competition in the “Best Books from all over the World” category at the Leipzig Book Fair in Germany on 18 March. To produce the book, Shoshan, an Israeli architect and designer who was brought up in a Zionist context, painstakingly mapped the creation [...]
UJ’s Curious Israel Boycott
I’m afraid I do not get the rationale behind the University of Johannesburg’s (UJ) recent decision to sever ties with Israel’s Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Of all of the boycotts to conduct, deciding to target the very institutions where some of the most vibrant dissent against Israeli policy is likely to occur seems counterproductive. [...]
U.S.-Israeli relationship never stronger, says Defense Secretary
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said during his visit in Tel Aviv on Thursday that the United States and Israel’s relationship has never been stronger and that both nations should stand together “as we contemplate and work with the extraordinary change that is taking place around the region.” According to Cheryl Pellerin of American Forces [...]
A vice-president as a deus ex machina, and more protests to come
The appointment of lieutenant general Omar Suleiman, chief of Egypt’s Mukhabarat (intelligence), as vice-president is not going to change anything. Suleiman (74), a man who among other things is responsible for maintaining the siege of Gaza and who acted frequently as a go-between in the framework of the ‘peace process’ between Israel and the Palestinians, [...]
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