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| | Masha Gessen on how the politics of memory of the Holocaust and antisemitism obscure what we see in Israel and Gaza today.
| | scottaaronson.blog
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| | Another Update (Oct. 27): At Boaz Barak's Windows on Theory blog, you can now find a petition signed by 63 prize-winning mathematicians and computer scientists---one guess which one is alphabetically first---asking that the kidnapped Israeli children be returned home. I feel confident that the pleas of Fields Medalists and Turing Award laureates will be what...
| | uprootedpalestinians.wordpress.com
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| | By Sharmine Narwani - Fri, 2012-02-17 22:12- The SandboxImagine this scenario: A developing nation decides to selectively share its precious natural resource, selling only to "friendly" countries and not "hostile" ones. Now imagine this is oil we're talking about and the nation in question is the Islamic Republic of Iran...Early news reports on Wednesday claimed...
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| Raz Segal, an Israeli expert in modern genocide, calls Israel's assault on Gaza a textbook case of "intent to commit genocide" and its rationalization of its violence a "shameful use" of the lessons of the Holocaust. Israeli state exceptionalism and comparisons of its Palestinians victims to "Nazis" are used to "justify, rationalize, deny, distort, disavow mass violence against Palestinians," says Segal.