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כוח סמלי או סמל של כוח

על החוקה הבריטית, בעקבות מותה של המלכה הארץ, 22 בספטמבר, 2022 מלכת אנגליה מתה, ויש שלא מבינים על מה המהומה. המלכה חייתה, חוותה ואפילו גילמה את ההיסטוריה הבריטית של העידן שנפתח עם הניצחון במלחמת העולם השנייה, דרך התפרקות האימפריה, נישואים וגירושים מאירופה — ושל הביטלס, !Wham והספייס גירלס — צמיחה ומשברים, ועוד ועוד. אבל, יתהו …

Review of Sarah Schulman’s Book on Pinkwashing

Does Israel ‘Pinkwash’? The Gay and Lesbian Review, Jan.-Feb. 2013 Israel/Palestine and the Queer International by Sarah Schulman Duke University Press.  208 pages, $22.95   SARAH SCHULMAN’S new book, Israel/Palestine and the Queer International, is a triple cause of delight for me. Schulman is a renowned Jewish-American lesbian activist who describes here her visit to …

Israel Needs Constitution, Not Basic Law

Constitution Needed: When Israel’s founding leaders declared independence in 1948, they promised to govern through a constitution. That vow remains unfulfilled to this day. The Forward, May 7, 2012 Israel’s Justice Minister, Yaacov Neeman, has floated a proposal for what is known in Israel as a “Basic Law” that would streamline and codify the legislative …

Confessions of a Pinkwasher

Gay City News, December 7, 2011 The New York Times recently dedicated precious space to the follies of Israel’s public relations. I’m not talking about Sarah Schulman’s “Israel and Pinkwashing,” which alleges that the Israeli government effectively leverages the gains of the LGBT community to have its way with the Palestinians, but rather a Times …

Provisional Loyalty to a Provisional State

Each of us gets to decide whether to follow the rules or change them. In Hebrew we call this ‘combina,’ a slang word referring to the bypassing of rules or commitments. Haaretz, October 15, 2010 A historic event passed almost unnoticed on Sunday. A group of some 200 intellectuals and other public figures gathered in …

Bias in Black and White

The venomous disregard for the truth makes Spanish criticism of Israel banal and misses important issues. This simplistic anti-Israel narrative represents not a noble struggle for human rights, but rather a contamination of both journalism and the great democracy that the newspaper serves. (Read on the Haaretz website) Haaretz, April 3, 2009 Imagine that Spanish …