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messiah drill
Old time religion. Nothing like a fresh wave of messianic fever to stir the passions either in anticipation of the celebration that our sometimes brave, but generally old and tired world has reached its expiry date and something new is … Continue reading
fanon: still finding edge
…Fanon died of double pneumonia on December 6, 1961, six months before the liberation of Algeria. He was thirty-six years old. His body was flown back to Tunis with Ollie Iselin, the CIA operative, who attended his funeral. He was … Continue reading
ever since Abraham gave Ishmael the boot
There has been a couple of articles over the past several months in Haaretz, the Israeli secular left wing daily that try to confront the issue of co-existence with the Palestinians and of course the larger Islamic world from the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Andrew Bostom, benjamin disraeli, Benny Morris Historian, Benzion Netanyahu, Cairo Geniza, doug saunders globe and mail, Fouad Ajami, Golden Age of Muslim Spain, Heinrich Graetz, Jane Gerber, Maimonides, Maimonides in Egypt, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Buber, meron benvenisti, Montesquieu, Moritz Steinschneider, Nicky Larkin director, Pierre Bayle, Piet Mondrian, Robert Wistrich, Shlomo Dov Goiten, Voltaire
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checkpoint
Taking the express train down into the tunnel known as apartheid. Certainly, a Hebrew state or a Jewbrew state held hostage by a minority that holds it over the majority is something not to shout, scream, kick and leap for … Continue reading
lost in the supermarket
It seemed like a good idea; drop into the market on the way home, grab some snacks and a few beers.Settlers without borders? Anarchists without frontiers? ..You have to think that tactics like the ISM is using is only going … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Activist Abir Kopty, Ami Horowitz, Benny Morris Historian, Darren Aronofsky, Glenn Beck Restoring Courage, ingrid pitt, International Solidarity Movement, kahanism, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Buber, meir kahane, Movie Pi, Oslo accords, Rabbi Meir Kahane, Rami Levy Supermarkets, the clash
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people who died
Misery loves company and there seems to be a lot of it to go around. As the historian John Luckacs once wrote, we don’t really solve problems, both social and personal, although there may be effort made; rather what happens … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Frank Scherschel, ilan pappe, Jim Caroll Band, Jim Carroll poetry, Jimmy Carter Palestine Peace not Apartheid, John Lukacs, Judah Leib Magnes, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Buber, Rabbi Arik Ascherman, Rabbi Judah Magnes, ronit lentin, Toward a Common Archive, Ziad Abu Hamad
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i and thou and the guy that wrote it down
I and thou. Us and them. Utopian prophet and social visionary or charlatan and snake oil salesman, as intellectual lamb in sheep’s clothing; a crypto-Zionist as a very good cop? Martin Buber’s translator has died which brings focus back to … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged 5 Broken Cameras documentary, Amos Oz, Ari Folman, Carl Spitzweg, Dvora Dawson, Edward Said, Egyptian President Nasser, Emad Burnat, Friedrich Overbeck, Georg Friedrich Kersting, Gideon Levy Haaretz, Guy Davidi, Hannah Arendt, ICAHD Jeff Halper, Judah Magnes, Justus Weiner, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Buber, Maurice S. Friedman, Michael Steinhardt, Paul Mendes-Flohr, Paul Tillich, philipp otto runge, Richard Silverstein, Uri Davis, Uri Davis Peace News, Waltz With Bashir
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social and cultural stress: cargo cult to the rescue
A sense of deprivation gives birth to the cult. Its driving force is invariably a form of religious fervor or secular religiosity. Its end: the destruction of the cult or the evolution of a new social order, and the cycle … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Cargo Cults, Code of Handsome Lake, F.C. Wallace, F.C. Wallace anthropologist, Gustav Landauer, Hannah Arendt, James Mooney anthropologist, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marc Seguin artist, Marc Seguin Million Dollar painting, Martin Buber, Millenarian movements, Peyote cults, Philleo Nash anthropologist, viktor deni, Walter Benjamin
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chill out: religion doesn’t grow on trees
Judith Butler is a major critic of the state of Israel. Like many in left, far left academia, they occupy a higher moral ground than the common and mortal, the unwashed who may actually have to do some real work … Continue reading