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Religion out, nationalism in: Will Hamas’ charter divide the movement?
Hamas new ‘Document of Principles’ ditches Islamism for frank positions on borders, international law, and human rights. But can the movement maintain unity as it inches closer to the ideas held by its rivals in the PLO? By Menachem Klein (translated by Philip Podolsky) Hamas’ recently-revised charter, titled “Document of General Principles and Policies” sees the group go down…
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May 14, 2017
Dear Arab men, leave us women out of your holy wars
An Arab teacher was recently attacked and fired for screening an ‘immodest’ film for his students, all in the name of protecting women’s ‘honor.’ This is the kind of article I am hesitant to publish in Hebrew or English. But out of my wholehearted belief that there are Jews in this world who can be…
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Samah Salaime
March 1, 2016
In Israel’s democracy, dissent has always been off limits to Arab citizens
The banning of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement may seem like a new low, but a closer look at history reveals how the state has been at war with Palestinian political organizations since its very inception. Israel’s Palestinian citizens have never had an easy time organizing politically. The government’s decision to outlaw the…
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Edo Konrad
November 17, 2015
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Longing for Jewish-Muslim co-existence in Morocco
Kamal Hachkar’s film, ‘Echoes From the Mellah,’ looks at Morocco’s history, which not long ago included Jews and Muslims living together in peaceful co-existence, and serves as an important resource for building a vision of a shared Jewish-Palestinian existence. By Ronit Chacham (translated by Noam Benishei) The January 6 screening of Kamal Hachkar’s “Tinghir-Jerusalem: Echoes From…
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April 5, 2015
Autoxenophobia: The ‘demographic threat’ goes worldwide
The real demographic balance that should worry liberal, humanist, open and progressive people is the number of xenophobes in our society, rather than the number of people with beards, skullcaps or hijabs. By Dubi Kanengisser When I lived in Toronto, I used to jokingly exclaim “man, I hate those immigrants.” Like all jokes, this had a…
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October 3, 2012
Letter from a Pakistani blogger
Over the last few months, I have engaged in a series of conversations with Pakistani writers and academics through mutual friends. These talks have been a rare and fascinating opportunity to see their country through their eyes rather than through Western media sources. We’ve discovered some surprising common concerns and a mutual desire to stay…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
August 31, 2012
Are Israelis Middle Eastern?
How foreign to the Martian soil is the NASA vessel that just landed there? About as foreign as Israel considers itself to be from the Middle East at large. At least this is the sense one gets recently from observing our inner discourse over the events in Egypt, Tunisia and elsewhere. Most of the talk…
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Yuval Ben-Ami
February 7, 2011
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