Category Archives: Israel
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Bonfire of the experts: The Arab uprisings and the Israeli-Palestinian question
Leave a commentMay 16, 2011 by happyhenry
Tony Klug analyses the current situation: I was at a meeting recently where the head of the Foreign Office’s ‘Near …
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In Memory of the Nakba
Leave a commentMay 15, 2011 by happyhenry
Israel declared its independence on 14th May 1948. While Israelis celebrate this on Yom Ha’atzmaut, we should also remember as …
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Where is the freedom to think differently in Israel today?
Leave a commentMay 15, 2011 by IJV
Taken from the conclusion of the lecture by Jacqueline Rose at LSE on 6th May 2011: “‘Freedom is always freedom …
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‘Push and press Israel’ New Israel Fund President tells UK Jews. So why is NIF supporting a whitewash Israel conference?
Leave a commentMay 14, 2011 by IJV
by Antony Lerman Naomi Chazan is a class act. Professor emerita, former Deputy Speaker of the Israeli Knesset, former Member …
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French Intellectuals Call for Creation of Palestinian State
Leave a commentMay 11, 2011 by IJV
A group of French academics have written a petition calling for the immediate recognition of a Palestinian state. The following …
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One State, Two States: resolving the Israel/Palestine conflict
Leave a commentMay 5, 2011 by happyhenry
Yale University Press, by Benny Morris. Review by Tony Klug, Special advisor on the Middle East Oxford Research Group, UK Published …
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Statement on Rocket Attacks from Gaza
Leave a commentApril 1, 2011 by happyhenry
We have been asked to set out IJV’s position on the recent spate of rocket attacks aimed at Israel from …
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Dead end
Leave a commentMarch 28, 2011 by happyhenry
When hope recedes its place is taken by hatred, The vacuum filled by knives and discriminatory legislation, By settlement expansion, bombs …
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Israel Doesn’t Reciprocate Devotion of Diaspora Jews
Leave a commentMarch 28, 2011 by Antony Lerman
Clear signs of changing attitudes towards Israel among British Jews have been emerging in recent years. And yet old thinking …
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Coming Back to Israel
Leave a commentMarch 27, 2011 by happyhenry
After almost four years in Cambridge I find myself back in Israel. Perhaps it is this country that has changed, …
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