Tag: israel
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Writing is the Closing of Circles: Nava Semel
‘WRITING IS THE CLOSING OF CIRCLES’: NAVA SEMEL From R. Lentin, Israel and the Daughters of the Shoah: Re-occupying the Territories of Silence, (Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2000) Introduction I met the late Nava Semel on November 25, 1992 in the apartment she shared with her husband Noam Semel, director of the Tel Aviv Cameri Theatre,…
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Oxymorons and metaphors: Israel Studies from racialization to decolonization
A paper I presented at a workshop entitled ‘Decolonizing knowledge production: The case of Israel-Palestine’, London School of Economics, 6 June 2017, 50 years since Israel’s 1967 war against its Arab neighbours and since the occupation of the West Bank, Sinai, the Gaza Strip and the Golan. Introduction: Some thoughts about decolonizing Israel Studies Following…
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Criticising Israel is not the same as being anti-Jewish
An op ed article David Landy and I wrote for The Irish Times The recent calls to expel former London mayor Ken Livingstone from the British Labour Party have created a worrying alliance between those who use accusations of anti-Semitism to silence critics of Israel and those who use them to attack supporters of the…
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