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The Missing Mahatma: Searching for a Palestinian Gandhi

March 29th, 2009 · 24 Comments · Culture and Ideas, Judaism and Religion, Politics and Policy

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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