On Monday, the 26th of May, 2008, Akiva Orr spoke at the offices of the Alternative Information Center in West Jerusalem. Akiva was born in Berlin in 1931 and immigrated to Palestine with his family in 1934, growing up in Tel Aviv. He served in the Israeli Navy in 1948 and after the war studied mathematics and physics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In the early 1950s, Akiva became critical of Zionism, joining the Israeli Communist Party in 1953. However, in 1962, he broke from the party and jointly founded the anti-Zionist Israeli organization Matzpen. He has written several books including “The Un-Jewish State: The Politics of Jewish Identity in Israel,” “The Other Israel: The Radical Case Against Zionism,” and the “Direct Democracy Manifesto.”

This program was produced by the Alternative Information Center for June 11, 2008.

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http://alternative news.org
akiorrbooks.org

Professor Kovel is a prolific writer who has published ten books and over a hundred articles. His most recent book: “Overcoming Zionism,” published by the Pluto Press in the UK, and distributed by the University of Michigan Press, predictably earned him the ire of what Rabbi Arthur Waskow, of the Shalom Center in Philadelphia, calls “Jewish Officialdom,” or the “Official Jewish Institutional Structures,” including the Michigan chapters of the American Jewish Congress, the Jewish Community Relations Council, and B’nai Brith.

As a result, the University of Michigan Press, temporarily suspended distribution of the book in August 2007 amid the now tiresome, shrill accusations of anti-Semitism. Once again, it appeared that the age-old tactic of killing the messenger to deny access to the message had succeeded.

In October, 2007, however, following a “growing campaign led by fellow academics and civil libertarians,” (principally historian Howard Zinn), the University of Michigan Press reversed its decision.

This program was produced by This Week In Palestine for January 20, 2008.

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truthandjusticeradio.org
joelkovel.org

Professor Salman H. Abu-Sitta of the London-based Palestine Land Society gives a personal account of how he became a refugee in Palestine in 1948. Using data from his research, Abu-Sitta shows how over 600 Palestinian villages were systematically depopulated by the advancing Israeli forces, leaving many others dismembered by an arbitrary cease-fire line. With maps and demographic statistics, Abu-Sitta shows that, in effect, Zionist policies were an ethnic cleansing campaign that resulted in a massive transfer of native Palestinians to the countries bordering Israel, where thousands remain within 100 miles from their original communities.

This program was produced for Alternative Focus by John Odam.

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alternatefocus.org
plands.org (Palestine Land Society)

In this talk, Charles Smith, professor of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona, gives an account of the history of Palestine and Israel. In the first part Smith describes the period from the first wave of Zionist immigrants up to the end of the British mandate in 1948. Smith then takes us from the foundation of the State of Israel to the 1967 war and the occupation of the West Bank. In the third segment, Smith covers the 1967 and 1973 wars, the land-for-peace agreement with Egypt up to the Olso Accords and the first and second intifadas.

This program was produced for Alternative Focus by John Odam in 2006.

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CKUT radio produced a retrospective on the 1967 Naksa (setback) for the 40th anniversary that aired on June 7, 2007. This is part two of that program.

Professor Yakov Rabkin is a Professor of History at the University of Montreal and author of A Threat from Within: A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism. Prof. Rabkin offers Jewish reflection on the anniversary of the Six Day War.

For more information, visit:
ckut.ca
hist.umontreal.ca/U/rabkin (Prof. Rabkin’s page at the Univ. of Montreal, in French)

Resisting the Israeli occupation through photography, we’ll speak to activists putting cameras into the hands of Palestinian refugee youth; also, Australian journalist and author Antony Lowenstein takes the occupation head-on and challenges Zionist policy and Jewish nationalism in his new book; a commentary by a sophomore at Stanford University on the role and responsibility of Jewish Americans in the context of Israeli policy in Palestine; and the Knight Report.

This program was produced by Flashpoints Radio.

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www.flashpoints.net