Gaza.

“…disillusioned personally, disillusioned at the institutionalized racism, disillusioned at what I was beginning to learn about Zionism’s cruelties”

Naeim Giladi, speaking in October 1984. Giladi passed away in March 2010 but not before giving the world his educated opinion on Zionism, based upon his own personal experiences in the Zionist underground movement, and living in Israel, which he terms a “racist regime” in this interview.

Notable that at about 57 minutes into the programme it has to end just as Giladi was going to show us “…how Israel created Hamas”.

UPDATE - 14 July 2010: Read the book being plugged in this video, ‘Ben-Gurion’ Scandals - How the Hagannah and The Mossad Eliminated Jews’ here.

UPDATE - 15 July 2010: Changed date from 1984 to 1994.

HARDtalk: Shlomo Sand

Shlomo Sand’s latest book [The Invention of the Jewish People] has unleashed a storm of controversy far beyond his homeland. His subject is the history of the Jews, and his conclusions reject the orthodoxies of Jewish history and modern day Zionism. If Sand is right then today’s Israeli state has been built on the foundations of myth and falsehood; but is he?

”.. devilish Shlomo Sand predicts…” — Mondoweiss.net [YouTube]

Book Review at electronic intifada

the “H” word

“Let Us Hope Jews Open Their Ears and Listen,”
articles by Dr. Sara Roy:

The Journey of a Child of Holocaust Survivors
The Holocaust has been the defining feature of my life. It could not have been otherwise.

How Can Children of the Holocaust Do Such Things?
A Jewish Plea

If Gaza falls…
Israel’s siege has two fundamental goals. One is to ensure that the Palestinians there are seen merely as a humanitarian problem, beggars who have no political identity and therefore can have no political claims. The second is to foist Gaza onto Egypt.

Palestinian children sing for Holocaust survivors
AP, Mar 25 — The Palestinian youths from the tough West Bank refugee camp stood facing the elderly Holocaust survivors… Then they began to sing.

and then, as a “thank you”:

Orchestra shut down over Holocaust concert
NZ Herald, Mar 30 — Authorities in an impoverished Palestinian refugee camp have shut down a youth orchestra, boarded up its rehearsal studio and banned its conductor from the camp after she took 13 young musicians to perform for Holocaust survivors in Israel, an official said Sunday.

the “Z” word

Zionism is the problem
LA Times, Mar 15 — The Zionist ideal of a Jewish state is keeping Israelis and Palestinians from living in peace.

J Street poll: Tide is turning
The Guardian, Mar 29 — JStreet’s latest poll about American Jewish attitudes toward the Israeli-Arab conflict contains some heartening results and some worrisome ones.

Haaretz and the Spectator call the poll a ‘joke’.