Month: August 2011

• Archeo-(il)logical Imperialism, Political Theology, and Linguistic Fascism

  Within the ideological innards of both camps of the Israel-Palestine conflict, and connecting the two inextricably, there quivers a web wedding religious aspiration and political action, very tangled and dense,…

• IDF Uses Deleuze and Guattari, Debord to Attack Nablus and Reconceptualize Military Tactics

  http://www.metamute.org/?q=en/node/8192 “Although you do not need Deleuze to attack Nablus, theory helped the military reorganize by providing a new language in which to speak to itself and others. A ‘smart…

• Jenin Freedom Theatre Attacked Again/ Art As Vehicle For Revolutionary Change

  Last night, the Jenin Freedom Theater was attacked for the third time this month. At about two in the morning, IDF soldiers rolled up in army vehicles, surrounded the theater…

• Pre-Dawn Raids in Bethlehem and Hebron

  At 3 AM this morning we were all sitting around, giddily awake from our indignation over the fact that the top story on the ISM website was a travelogue called…

• Einstein and Zionism

  Einstein and Zionism Einstein was a very strong cultural Zionist, who believed that the creation of a national homeland for Jews (read homeland, not state) could awaken a revitalization of…

• Freud and Zionism

  In February 1930 Freud was asked, as a distinguished Jew, to contribute to a petition condemning Arab riots of 1929, in which over a hundred Jewish settlers were killed. This…

• Occupation in the Jordan Valley

  In the last month ISM has joined up with Jordan Valley Solidarity and a slew of other international activists to make mud bricks for a new house and football field…

• Occupation in Kufr Qaddum

  We just got back from the weekly demonstration at Kufr Qaddum, a small town in the North West Bank that since 1975 has suffered from the nearby (illegal) Israeli settlement…

• Neturei Karta and the Revolutionary Intelligentsia

  Neturei Karta is a group of anti-Zionist, ultra-Orthodox Jews who pray for the ‘peaceful dismantling of the State of Israel’. Descended from the Orthodox Jewry who, for hundreds of years…