In the last few years, there have been concentrated efforts in Europe and North America to make institutions adopt International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of “antisemitism”1. Though the calls have been only to adopt the “definition” (just the definition), the “definition” serves as synechdoche for the guidance document that accompanies it even when there’s a lack of formal position(s) on the guidance document in these states. It has deservedly created an outcry. This beckons us to look closely into the issue. This paper is an attempt to take a brief but hopefully, a succinct overview of the debate surrounding it and lasting implications of attempts to adopt it.
Omar Barghouti
Fifteen years ago, the broadest coalition in Palestinian society launched the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinians rights to contribute to our liberation struggle. With Israel’s regime of military occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid growing far more fanatic in perpetrating, with impunity, war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Indigenous people of Palestine, BDS has become more crucial than ever.
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How do Palestinians perceive Christian Zionism? I will argue, that Christian Zionism is more than just a theological belief about Israel and Jews – it is an Imperial Theology. Today, it is also – willingly or not – a political movement
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