Posts Tagged ‘Avi Shlaim’
Book Review: Avi Shlaim – Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab Jew
How Israel and Zionism Destroyed the World’s Oldest Jewish Community in Iraq One World, London, 2023 Witness – The Last Jew of Babylon – 15 Jul 07 – Part 1 Avi Shlaim is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at St Anthony’s College, Oxford. He is also an Iraqi Jew who emigrated at the age of…
Read MoreA good 2 days for Palestine at Labour Party Conference – the Right cry ‘antisemitism’ at anti-racist Jews!
The allegations of Brighton Cllr Warren Morgan that Free Speech on Israel meeting supported holocaust denial is a total lie Unite and Aslef leaders commit to seeking affiliation to Jewish Voices for Labour Yesterday delegates made it clear that they supported the Palestinians and opposed Zionism. The effect of Labour’s swing to the Left and…
Read MoreThe Balfour Declaration – The Tragedy of a Single Letter
The idiocies of Karl Sabbagh This was a meeting to launch Gilad Atzmon’s The Wandering Who? book which I reviewed. Karl Sabbagh was one of the speakers Karl Sabbagh Karl Sabbagh is a living example of the saying that there’s no fool like an old fool. I came up to London on the NHS March train…
Read MoreFour must-watch video interviews with Israeli Professor Avi Shlaim and Jackie Walker about the fake anti-Semitism controversy
These four interviews were conducted by another Israeli Professor (professors seem to be Israel’s main export!) Haim Bresheeth of the University of East London. They are eye opening and well worth watching. Professor Avi Shlaim of Oxford University Jackie Walker (part 1) Jackie Walker (part 2) Jackie Walker (part 3)
Read MoreRewriting History – First the Holocaust now the Nakba – Netanyahu style
It is illegal to teach about the Nakba in Israel today. History is what the State says it is. The word ‘Nakba’ is officially banned from Israeli, including Israeli Arab, textbooks. By banning a word, Israeli’s stupid leaders, led by Netanyahu, believe that they can rewrite history itself. That Israel’s Palestinians will somehow forget about…
Read MoreWhy Israel Doesn’t Want Peace
It is often taken as given that Israel wants peace. In a sense it does, but it is the peace of the vanquished. Peace on its terms. The failure of the current talks is predictable. Netanyahu doesn’t want any agreement. He therefore continues to add conditions which even Abbas has difficulty selling. Zionism has always…
Read MoreAriel Sharon – The Death of a Butcher
War Criminals like Sharon Ended their days on the Gallows in Nuremburg women survivors of the Phalangist/Israeli massacre In his Comment is Free article earlier this week, Avi Shlaim Emeritus Professor of International Relations at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University asked that after the Sabra and Chatilla massacres, when Israeli troops lit up the night…
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