Gershom Gorenberg If Palestinians adopted a Gandhian nonviolent strategy, could they reshape the entire conflict with Israel and finally realize a two-state solution? If so, why haven’t they done so? Or perhaps they really have at certain times and places, and Israel has broken that form of resistance as well? Those questions have been asked [...]
The Missing Mahatma: Searching for a Palestinian Gandhi
March 29th, 2009 · 24 Comments · Culture and Ideas, Judaism and Religion, Politics and Policy
Tags: "A Quiet Revolution"·"Armed Struggle and the Search for State"·"Men in the Sun"·"Path of Adam's Son"·Arafat·Bernard Rougier·Fanon·Fatah·Gene Sharp·George Antonius·Ghassan Kanafani·Gilles Kepel·Hamas·Hayim Nahman Bialik·Intifada·Islam·Jawdat Said·jihad·Karameh·Katy Antonius·Lucy Nusseibeh·Mahatma·Martin Luther King·martyrdom·Mary King·Montgomery bus strike·Motti Golani·Mubarak Awad·Mustafa Abu Sway·Nafez Assaily·Nakba·Nasser Juma'a·non-violence·PFLP·PLO·Qalandiya checkpoint·Quran·sadhu·Sami Awad·Sari Nusseibeh·satyagraha·shahid·Shariati·suicide bombing·terrorism·War for Muslim Minds·Wretched of the Earth·Yaron Ezrahi·Yazid Khader·Yezid Sayigh·Yitzhak Rabin
Is All Criticism Anti-Israel? A Question for NGO Monitor
July 20th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Politics and Policy
Gershom Gorenberg NGO Monitor, Gerald Steinberg’s group, which tracks human-rights groups for anti-Israel bias, sent me its annual report. I don’t claim the resources to monitor every detail of its monitoring. But a section in the report on B’Tselem helps illuminate an underlying bias in the work of the bias-hunter. The report quotes B’Tselem Executive [...]
Tags: B'Tselem·Jesse Helms·Martin Luther King·NGO Monitor·West Bank settlement

