[lbo-talk] Articles on Azmi Bishara and Ilan Pappe

[Bryan Atinsky]

Michael Warschawski wrote two good articles, one about Ilan Pappe's
decision to leave Haifa University and move to a university in the UK,
and another about the situation of MK Azmi Bishara of the Balad
political party, who has (probably) decided to resign from his position
as head of the party, complaining of persecution and with rumors of a
criminal investigation against him by the Israeli authorities.

Bryan

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Israeli Activists and the Option to Leave: The Use and Misuse of its
Representation

Written by Michael Warschawski, Alternative Information Center (AIC)

Working in Israel for a just peace between the Palestinians and Israelis
is not an easy job, to say the least. Israeli activists are embedded
within the belly of the beast, and are permanently submitted to
tremendous pressures: the pressures of the national consensus, the
pressures of social (and sometimes) political repression, the pressures
of despair and discouragement, and the pressure to lose hope and to leave.

[...]

for the whole article:
http://www.alternativenews.org/news/english/israeli-activists-and-the-option-to-leave-the-use-and-misuse-of-its-representation-20070416.html

and

A Return to the 1950s? The Bishara Affair

Written by Michael Warschawski, Alternative Information Center (AIC)

MK Azmi Bishara is attacked today for challenging the non-democratic
character of Israel as an ethnic state with all his talent and strong
democratic sensitivity, and for putting a mirror in the face of the fake
Israeli liberals—a mirror which doesn’t lie and shows the deformed face
of Israeli democratic pretensions.

[...]

http://www.alternativenews.org/news/english/a-return-to-the-1950s-the-bishara-affair-20070416.html