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Stephen Eric Bronner
Five years before his death in 1980, Henry Pachter — my former teacher and friend – published an article in Dissent that enraged the editors: It was entitled “Who Are the Palestinians?”[1] Knowledge about “the occupation” and sympathy for Israel among the Left – and especially among the Jewish Left in the great urban centers…
Read Full Article...The Middle East is not merely a geographical designation, but a cauldron of ideological and material conflicts. Like all territories once subject to colonialism, its borders are arbitrary. Neither religious intolerance nor ancient tribal and ethnic hatreds respect them. Conflicts of this sort were rife in the Sudan. It is a huge country roughly the…
Read Full Article...It is now two years since President George W. Bush landed on an aircraft carrier and proclaimed victory in Iraq with the words: “Mission Accomplished!” The threat to the United States had passed, the weapons of mass destruction had not been launched, and an ally of al Qaeda had been destroyed. Statues of the dictator…
Read Full Article...Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. —- Theodor W. Adorno The political cartoon has a long history. Some of it is bright and noble: Goya satirized the Catholic Inquisition with his wonderful cappricios; Daumier held up the mirror by which French…
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