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From Balfour to the Nakba: The Settler-Colonial Experience of Palestine

November 7, 2020

The late prominent scholar of settler-colonialism, Patrick Wolfe, reminded us repeatedly that it is not an event, it is a structure. While settler-colonialism in many cases has a historical start…

Trump and Balfour Compared

February 10, 2020

Opinion

Much has already been written about the Trump administration’s release of its long-awaited plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace. I will not repeat the criticisms. Instead, I will focus on what I found t…

The Big Picture: The Empire Of Banks (III)

January 31, 2020

Opinion

Read Part II here A change of paradigm At the eve of the 20th century, something deeply changed in geopolitics, and the priorities of international bankers shifted to something more worthy than money …

Jerusalem – The Straw that Breaks the Empire’s Back?

December 17, 2017

Opinion

When President Trump on 6 December 2017 declared unilaterally Jerusalem as the capital of Israel to where the US Embassy shall relocate, he violated UN Resolutions, international law, common sense and…

It Has Never Been So Good

November 16, 2017

Opinion

One Hundred years after the Balfour Declaration – what is actually going on in Palestine? I’d like to say that Palestine is burning and Israel suffers, but the truth must be told: Israel and Palestine…

The Balfour Declaration – One Hundred Years of (Goyim) Solitude

November 9, 2017

Opinion

In Heidegger and the Jews, the French philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard points out that history claims to narrate the past but, in practice, what it does is conceal our collective shame. The Americans…

The Balfour Declaration – A Century of Jewish Power

November 6, 2017

Opinion

This year, Palestinians and their supporters mark the 100th anniversary of The Balfour Declaration, a written statement from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary, Arthur James Balfour, to Walter Rot…

The Ignoble History and Legacy of the Balfour Declaration

November 4, 2017

Opinion

On 2 November 1917 the British government in the form of the country's then foreign secretary, Sir Arthur Balfour, addressed a letter to Lord Rothschild, a leading figure within the British Jewish com…