Racism: The Arab Mind

The “Arab Mind”
“Both U.S. and Israeli elites have always believed that the Arabs need to be kept subordinate. However, once the U.S. solidified its alliance with Israel after June 1967, it began to look at Israelis ­ and Israelis projected themselves ­ as experts on the “Arab mind.” Accordingly, the alliance with Israel has [...]

Oxford Union: Israel Lobby Stifling Debate

 
The motion: This house believes the pro-Israel lobby has successfully stifled Western debate about Israel’s actions. Debaters: Norman Finkelstein, Andrew Cockburn, Martin Indyk, David Aaronovitch
The Oxford Union passed a motion this week blaming a pro-Israeli lobby for limiting the West’s capacity for free debate about the Middle East.
Two-thirds of the student [...]

An Issue Of Justice: Origins Of The Israel/Palestine Conflict - Norman Finkelstein

The best lecture I’ve heard on the creation of Israel and how we’ve arrived at the present day situation. Mostly about the Israel/Palestine conflict but also covers the invasion of Lebanon. Interestingly the title of this blog was inspired by this lecture where Finkelstein advises calling solidarity groups “justice for Palestine” groups.
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Petition in support of Norman Finkelstein

Please sign the petition in support of Academic Activist Norman Finkelstein
Some links about him

His articles used on this site
About the petition: Harvard Law Professor Works to Disrupt Tenure Bid of Longtime Nemesis at DePaul University
Norman Finkelsteins Blog
The fate of the honest intellectual, Noam Chomsky on Finkelstein
Podcast about the Finkelstein petition

Support a fair tenure process for Dr. [...]

Kill Arabs, cry anti-Semitism

By Norman G. Finkelstein
Download the Word doc original here.
A central thesis of my book Beyond Chutzpah is that whenever Israel faces a public relations debacle its apologists sound the alarm that a “new anti-Semitism” is upon us. So, predictably, just after Israel faced another image problem due to its murderous destruction of Lebanon, a British [...]

UN human rights envoy says Gaza a prison for Palestinians

“In other countries this process might be described as ethnic cleansing but political correctness forbids such language where Israel is concerned”
Editor’s note: See also Finkelstein’s UNPUBLISHED OP-ED ON GAZA WITHDRAWAL from September 17, 2005:
In a recent study entitled One Big Prison, B’Tselem (report, summary) observes that the crippling economic arrangements Israel has imposed on Gaza [...]

Racist Western attitudes towards Arabs

The following post has a video on hollywoods vilification of arabs, a section by Chomsky on racist attitudes towards Arabs, an essay on the recent headlines about the Muhammad cartoons ending on a section about US foreign policy and “the arab mind” 
Video “Planet of the Arabs”

A trailer-esque montage spectacle of Hollywood’s relentless vilification and dehumanization of Arabs and Muslims.
Inspired [...]

The Israel Lobby, U.S. Foreign Policy and the “Arab Mind”

The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy 

Articles

The Israel lobby John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt
The storm over the Israel lobby Michael Massing
The Israel lobby? Noam Chomsky
The Israel lobby Norman Finkelstein

“Both U.S. and Israeli elites have always believed that the Arabs need to be kept subordinate. However, once the U.S. solidified its alliance with Israel after June 1967, it began [...]