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Thursday, September 07, 2023

Peer reviewed paper in "Political Geography" journal calls Palestinian terrorists "freedom fighters" (@Pol_Geog_Jl)

Here is the abstract of a paper by Walaa Alqaisiya, published in Political Geography, a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Elsevier: Beyond the contours of Zionist sovereignty: Decolonisation in Palestine's Unity IntifadaThis article takes the May 2021 uprising in Palestine, known as the Unity Intifada, as a prism to map old and new political geographies...

"Human rights lawyer" Noura Erakat justifies murdering Jewish civilians - and Palestinian bloodlust

There was a very revealing thread by academic fraud Noura Erakat, who calls herself a "human rights lawyer:"Palestinians under siege, subject to killing by world’s 11th most powerful army & deputized settlers but news producers want me to come on air to comment on Palestinians celebrating the killing of 9 Israeli settlers? Why this pathology of Palestinians and apology...

Idiot Juan Cole explains the reason Israelis are happy and Palestinians are not: The Jews are stealing Palestinian happiness!

Twelfth-rate academic Juan Cole notes that in the latest UN World Happiness Report, Israel ranks as the ninth happiest nation in the world and the Palestinian Territories ranks 122nd out of 146 rated areas.Of course, he must explain how this happened using his own twisted Jew-hating logic. It is, he says, "happiness apartheid."The per capita income of Palestinians is $3751...

What kind of an anthropologist would condone looting of Jewish antiquities? A Palestinian one at Columbia.

Nadia Abu El Haj is a professor of anthropology at Columbia University's Barnard College. In 2002, she published "Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society." The book is meant to be a discussion of how Israel uses and misuses archaeology for its own political purposes.But she asserts, in her own voice, something so...

An Israeli neuroscientist named Gerry Leisman, who teaches at Haifa University, announced on a listserv:Hi,I am the guest editor of a special issue of the Journal Brain Sciences and we are producing a special issue of the journal entitled, "The Brain Goes to School, details for which can be found at the following link:https://www.mdpi.com/.../brai.../special_issues/brain_schoolWe...

A survey of academic papers that claim that Israeli settlers/IDF release wild boars to attack Palestinians

As my readers know, I like to expose the stupid things published about Israel in academic papers.One recent publication was by Saad Amira, of the University of Basel, Switzerland, whose abstract for "The slow violence of Israeli settler-colonialism and the political ecology of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank" in "Settler Colonial Studies" includes, Here I focus...

Right wing Israeli vegans are a major challenge to the Israel-haters

Here are parts of an abstract of an academic paper, "Vegan nationalism?: the Israeli animal rights movement in times of counter-terrorism," published in Settler Colonial Studies.In recent years, the movement advocating animal rights and welfare (animal rights movement), in parallel with the practice of ethical veganism, has become increasingly significant in Israel. Along...

Israeli philosophy journal publishes article by an antisemite claiming Jews control Western culture to gain evolutionary advantage

Daily Nous, a philosophy news blog, writes: Have Jews insinuated themselves into positions of power and influence in politics and culture because they are innately gifted with higher IQs, or is it also because they are ethnocentric and hypocritical networkers good...

Here's a new one: "Modern Hebrew is cultural appropriation from Arabic"

Hafez al-Barghouti is a Fatah member who is the former editor of Palestinian Authority newspaper Al Hayat al-Jadida, and a frequent op-ed contributor to various Arab media.Writing in Jordan's Al Ghad, Barghouti has come up with a completely new example of how Zionists steal everything from Arabs.Hebrew.In the middle of an article about Israeli cultural appropriation, where...

The head of a Christian college in Bethlehem is an antisemite

In 2017, Premiere Christian News reported:Israel's occupation of Palestine is behind the exodus of Palestinian Christians from the region, according to a new study.Research carried out by Dar al-Kalima University in the occupied West Bank town of Beit Jala, concluded that only a small percentage of Christians had left Palestine because of concerns over Muslim religious conservatism.Explaining...

Her father was a Nazi. She's a woke professor at Columbia. They both boycott Jews.

Willem Sassen was a Dutch collaborator with the Nazis who ended up becoming a Nazi reporter and a colonel in the Waffen-SS.He was held in a British prison camp after the war but managed to escape and hide in various places after the war. In 1947, his girlfriend gave birth to a daughter, Saskia, and later that year they escaped Europe with many other Nazis, SS members and collaborators...

New academic paper justifies teaching terrorism to Palestinian kids

Palestinian textbooks have always encouraged terror and extolled martyrdom. For example here is a poem from a third grade textbook about dying for the cause of annihilating the Jews in Israel: The Land of the GenerousI vow I shall sacrifice my blood, to saturate the land of the generous And will eliminate the usurper from my country, and will annihilate the ...

Insane academic paper of the day

Published in Mediterranean Politics in April: Rethinking justice beyond human rights. Anti-colonialism and intersectionality in the politics of the Palestinian Youth MovementThis article discusses the politics of the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) – a contemporary social movement operating across a number of Arab and western countries. Unlike analysis on the Arab Uprisings...

Insane academic paper of the week: "Palestine and the Will to Theorise Decolonial Queering"

If you can make heads or tails out of this abstract, my hat's off to you: Palestine and the Will to Theorise Decolonial QueeringWalaa Alqaisiya AbstractThis article posits a theorisation of decolonisation in relation to queer as it emerges from the settler-colonial context of Palestine, what I call decolonial queering. The first part provides a new reading of Zionist...