
Arzu Merali


Against Zionism: Jewish Perspectives
A compilation of the papers presented at the IHRC / NEDA conference of 2006.

Brixton, Berkeley and Other Roads to Radicalisation
From Cultures of Resistance, Volume 1, Issue 1

The Beginning or End of Hope? Transforming the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict through Nation Building.
Reviews of Married to Another Man by Ghada Karmi, The One-State Solution by Virginia Tilley and One Country by Ali Abunimah

Gateways to Hell: Military Checkpoints in the Occupied West Bank
Yehudit Kirstein-Keshet explains the horror of checkpoints as a tool  toward s Israel’s realisation of maximum territory with a minimum of Palestinians; yet another element in the ongoing system of population transfer that began with the Naqba-Disaster of 1948 and that continues, by various means, up to the present time. (June 2007)

Palestinians Under Occupation: Living Without Human Rights
Daud Abdullah contends that the creation of Israel in Palestine in 1948 provoked untold  human rights abuses both in terms of the collective rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination and in terms of their individual human rights. While the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) outlined ample provisions guaranteeing civil and political rights including the rights to life and liberty of all peoples, Israel has stubbornly refused to conform to these international norms. June 2007
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Nightmares – How Gaza offends us all
Jennifer Loewenstein brilliantly illustrates the horrors of living under fire and portrays the Palestinians of Gaza as a people abandoned by the world to the murderous Israeli occupation, but whose will to resist strengthens with each atrocity committed against them.

The Case for One State
A courageous critique by Ilan Pappe of the world’s refusal to resolve the Palestinian Question based on any theory other than the ‘Two-State Solution’. Â