Likudnik/Kahanist rally in New York

28Apr10

Max Blumenthal‘s latest foray into the cesspit of militant racism that is right-wing zionism:

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Tags: Likudniks, Max Blumenthal, New York, Obama, Racism, zionism

UCB students make history

17Apr10

Students at the University of California, Berkeley made history earlier this year by voting 16-4 to divest from two companies directly implicated in Israel’s occupation. The divestment campaign was supported by, among others, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Naomi Klein, Judith Butler, Noam Chomsky, Richard Falk and various Jewish and Israeli peace groups. This vote was then [...]

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Tags: BDS, Berkeley, boycott, J-Street, students, UCB

The Nakba continues

11Apr10

Ha’aretz: “IDF order will enable mass deportation from West Bank A new military order aimed at preventing infiltration will come into force this week, enabling the deportation of tens of thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank, or their indictment on charges carrying prison terms of up to seven years. When the order comes into [...]

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Tags: ethnic-cleansing, Gaza, Nakba, occupation, transfer, West Bank

Conservatism

11Apr10

“Jost et al. (2003a) integrate personality characteristics within a motivated social cognition approach to understanding political conservativism, and their metaanalysis suggests that death anxiety, dogmatism–intolerance of ambiguity, and the needs for order, structure, and closure are positive correlates of conservativism, whereas negative correlates include openness to experience, uncertainty tolerance, and integrative complexity.” (Ozner and Benet-Martinez, [...]

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Tags: conservatism, death anxiety, disorders, politics, psychology