Historic Palestine: What you need to know!
I recently critiqued an article that used the term “historic Palestine” nine times in 21 pages without offering a definition even once. It is taken for granted that the reader would know what this...
Category: From Academia
Ibrahim Saïd: Getting it right when trying to wrong Israel
I find it amusing when an article, such as that by Ibrahim Saïd, sets out to bash Israel but then explains Israel quite well and shows that the author understands what we are really...
Intersectionality: Comparing Gaza to Ferguson
Oh how some people just love the term, intersectionality! You can take roads going hither and thither and somehow find a way to make them intersect. It seems to me that without the word,...
Genocide: Seeing Israel Where It Is Not
If hate for Israel is triggered whenever you hear or read certain trigger-words, such as genocide, then you might see things that are not really there. I can think of no other reason for...
Maternal Diets in Gaza: Not Our Fault!
Congratulations are in order…..a team composed of scientists from Gaza, Iran and Iraq just published a high quality paper in which the name “Israel” did not appear even once. There was no mention of...
The Occupation Causes Schizophrenia
A new article, entitled “Schizophrenia in the Context of Mental Health Services in Palestine”, reviews the literature concerning problems treating schizophrenic patients in the Palestinian Authority (PA). All authors are faculty at the An-Najah...
Pro-Palestinian Challenged in New Zealand Journal
Marilyn Garson (a Jew) spent four years working in Gaza and she thinks that gives her the authority needed to tell the New Zealand government how they should interact with Israel. And she wrote...
New New Historian: Moving on from Ilan Pappe
There is a new boy on the block. He is a new generation New Historian who takes the post-Zionist revisionist history of Israel to the next stage of evolution. And, according to textbook analyst...
