What really happened at Oxford

Tuesday, October 30, 2007
What really happened at Oxford - Finkelstein comments:
Insofar as the lies about what happened at the Oxford Union are getting more and more appalling, I have very reluctantly decided to post the email from the President of the Oxford Union disinviting me.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Rewriting history before the ink has dried

Monday, October 29, 2007
Still more on the Oxford Union [Peter Tatchell]

Monday, October 29, 2007
More on the Oxford Union [Ghada Karmi]

Thursday, October 25, 2007
Israeli soldier writes President of Oxford Union

Thursday, October 25, 2007
Shouldn't there be a mandatory decent interval before history is rewritten?
Finkelstein comments: Many months ago I was invited to the Oxford Union to debate the one-state vs. two-state settlement for the Israel-Palestine conflict. At the very last minute I was dropped allegedly due to pressures from Professor Dershowitz. Appalled by Oxford Union's capitulation, Avi Shlaim, Ilan Pappe, and Ghada Karmi withdrew. Here's how the Jerusalem Post construes what happened.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Isn't it time to seek therapy for his obsession? [Alan Dershowitz]

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Intellectual terrorism
Ghada Karmi, The Guardian, October 25, 2007
Appeasing bullies like Dershowitz will not stop them. It will rather encourage them to go further. The question is, do we in this country want a McCarthyite witch hunt?

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BLOGGERS

Mark Elf:

Monday, October 29, 2007
The real Ghada Karmi?
There are two letters arising out of the Oxford Union Finkelstein saga today.

Sunday, October 28, 2007
To conclude, was it the ex-Orangeman or the Jaffa Orangeman?

Saturday, October 27, 2007
Holocaust survivor versus holocaust industry
Here's an email I got from an angry person I know to be a Jewish holocaust survivor and a supporter of the Palestinian cause. It came after I posted something on the Finkelstein at Oxford (or not) business.

Saturday, October 27, 2007
Peace Now? Well not now, wait till I finish my reserve duty

Saturday, October 27, 2007
Believe this!

Friday, October 26, 2007
Stop being so silly, it was the lobby wot dunnit

Thursday, October 25, 2007
More on Finkelstein as Tatchell queers the pitch

Thursday, October 25, 2007
Anyone but Finkelstein at Oxford

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'Jerry Haber' - with comments from Peace Now UK's Peter Usiskin:

Monday, October 29, 2007
What Finkelstein Would Have Said at the Oxford Union
Finkelstein would have argued for the two-state solution, and at the same would have argued that Israel's policies have thwarted the two-state solution.

Sunday, October 28, 2007
Shalom u-le-hitraot to "Harry's Place"
The political Zionists are quite happy that they were allowed to represent the two-state solution at the Oxford Union instead of Norman Finkelstein. Pity that none of them really believe in it.
Indeed, as I have written here before, I know very few Israelis, and almost no diaspora Jews, who favor a true two-state solution in which one state neither dominates, nor is dominated by, the other, a solution in which there is real parity between the states.

Saturday, October 27, 2007
How the Israel Lobby Works -- Finkelstein and the Oxford Union
Clearly, Dershowitz and UK Peace Now's Usiskin thought it was more important to get Finkelstein off the panel -- because they simply are incapable of understanding how an anti-Zionist can favor a two-state solution -- then allow the invitation to get through.

Thursday, October 25, 2007
Disinviting Finkelstein to Speak at the Oxford Union
Last week I posted a statement about the academic boycott in which I said that I am not ready to support it. Well, I am still not ready, but I am one step closer after I read about the antics of UK Friends of Peace Now...

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Charlie Pottins:

Sunday, October 28, 2007
An Oxford Whodunnit?

Thursday, October 25, 2007
Fools at Oxford

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Richard Silverstein:

October 28, 2007
Dershowitz, Hidden Hand Behind Oxford Union's Cancellation of Finkelstein Invitation

October 26, 2007
Oxford Union, Under Pressure from Peace Now UK, Disinvites Finkelstein from Israel Debate


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Some history... Norman Finkelstein demolishes Alan Dershowitz on Democracy Now - Wednesday, September 24th, 2003

Peace Now at the Checkpoint

Tuesday, 16 October 2007
Written by Yossi Bartal for the Alternative Information Center (AIC)
Peace Now and their male oriented leadership have always attacked the refuseniks movement and kept on proudly committing war crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories in the name of national unity and obedience to the law. One can just hope that they will stop being seen by the world as a part of the peace movement in Israel.

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Peace Now. Now?! Well, Maybe Later - How the Peace Camp 'Vanished'
Ran HaCohen - February 8, 2002

WHAT IS THE PEACE CAMP?

There are two Israeli peace camps. One peace camp wants peace with the Palestinians, without occupation and without settlements. The other "peace camp" – I'll be using quotes to refer to it – wants peace with the settlers, not with the Palestinians. The issue of refusal is the very Shibboleth dividing the two camps.

HOW DOES PEACE NOW FIT IN?

Maybe because of its memorable logo, maybe because of good things it may have done when I was a child, Peace Now is still considered, especially in the US, as the incarnation of the Israeli peace camp. Peace Now is a non-parliamentary movement, whose supporters are more-or-less identical with the Meretz constituency.

Now it is high time to tell the truth: Peace Now is a marginal mainstream movement, far from any dissent, not part of the Israeli peace camp, but the very essence of the "peace camp". During the last eight years, Peace Now has been virtually absent from the Israeli public sphere. Its only activity worth mentioning is monitoring the expansion of the settlements, a documentation project issuing a communication to the press every few months.

A mass demonstration planned for this Saturday (9 February) can clarify the issue. The rally – postponed from last Saturday for technical reasons – is organised by an ad hoc "coalition for peace" comprising an unprecedented large number of bodies.

Among the speakers invited in the rally are signatories of the refusal petition and others public figures who support refusal. Though it was invited, Peace Now not only refused to participate, it is now trying to sabotage the rally by publishing big ads in the Israeli dailies announcing a demonstration a week later and signing "coalition for peace", in an obvious attempt to confuse demonstrators and tempt them to believe the rally was postponed once again.

If Peace Now's donors wonder where their money goes, here is an answer: to pay for expensive whole-page ads aimed at splitting and breaking the resistance to the Occupation and to Israel's war crimes from within.