This document was written for the Central Committee meeting of the ODA-DA’AM Workers Party in April 2011. The Challenge editorial board has updated it, adding a paragraph on the housing protests that broke out in Israel on July 14, 2011, partly under…
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Help! Racism!
In May 1992, teenager Helena Rap was stabbed to death on Bat Yam’s promenade by a Palestinian. Thousands of Bat Yam residents took to the streets in violent protest for five days. They looted, damaged property and attacked anyone who…
DA’AM (ODA): Thinking outside the Box
The following piece will soon be published in Solution: Israel-Palestine, edited by Joshua Simon, Sternberg Press, Berlin – New York. The Middle East conflict will not find a solution within the current array of forces. On the one side there is…
Erdogan and Israel: Glitch or Rupture?
The crisis in the relationship between Israel and Turkey reached a head following the IDF raid on the flotilla to Gaza at the end of last May, during which nine IHH activists were killed. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan…
The Ghetto in the Ghetto
The past year has witnessed two cases in the religious schools where ultraorthodox Jews of West European descent (Ashkenazis) discriminated against ultraorthodox Jews of darker hues. In August 2009, private religious schools in Petach Tikva refused to admit Ethiopian Jews.…
After the Flotilla of Blood: No More Excuses for Israel
Israel’s attempt to divert argument away from its blockade on Gaza, and over to the resistance that its troops encountered while attacking the Blue Marmara, is futile and grotesque. Let’s suppose for a moment that its commandos were attacked, as…
Israel’s Responsibility for the War in Gaza
A Clarification My article “Israel over Gaza” has aroused, to my surprise, many reactions, including some that disagreed with my placing responsibility exclusively on Israel. In so short a piece, admittedly, it was not possible to present the comprehensive analysis of a…
Israel over Gaza: A Campaign to Perpetuate the Occupation
Israel’s military operation called Molten Lead started on Saturday, December 27, 2008 and took more than 200 lives in its first day, much to the satisfaction of the Israeli public. Already on Friday there were cries of “Go get ’em!”…
Why Israel Can’t Attack Iran
Accompanying its verbal escalations over the Iranian nuclear project, Israel ventured on an extraordinary air force exercise in early June. According to the New York Times, this included more than 100 F-15 and F-16 fighter jets, which flew west 900 miles…
Israel’s Africa Problem
All photos by activestills.org ISRAEL likes to indulge in the illusion that it is part of Western Europe or one of the United States. Its border with Egypt, however, serves as a reminder concerning its location: in the Middle East, adjoining…