Articles by Ira Chernus
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Political Dreaming in the Twenty-First Century – Where Has It Gone?
Ira Chernus - TomDispatch,
29 Jul 2013
Perhaps these days dreams feel too naïve, too unrealistic, too embarrassing. So instead, you focus on the nuts and bolts of what’s wrong with the world. But show how your outrage, policies, and politics are propelled by your dreams. Share those dreams. Describe the kind of world you are working for and show how it could be linked to policies and politics. And don’t let anyone dismiss you as an “unrealistic dreamer.”
→ read full articleWho Lost the World? The Curious Case of How Libya Became an Election Issue
Ira Chernus - TomDispatch,
5 Nov 2012
Who lost Libya? Indeed, who lost the entire Middle East? Those are the questions lurking behind the endless stream of headlines about “Benghazi-gate.” My short answer: the enduring power of a foreign policy myth that will not die, the decades-old idea that America has an inalienable right to “own” the world and control every place in it. I mean, you can’t lose what you never had.
→ read full articleThree Myths of Israel’s Insecurity: And Why They Must Be Debunked
Ira Chernus - TomDispatch,
25 Apr 2011
Most Zionists have been unable to see that once they founded a state committed to regional military superiority, they were bound to be on the receiving as well as the giving end of acts of war. It is the absence of peace far more than the presence of anti-semitism that renders Israelis who live near Gaza or in the West Bank insecure. However, according to the myth, it’s not only physical violence that threatens Israel’s existence. In the last two years, right-wing Israelis and their supporters in the U.S. have learned to lie awake at night worrying about another threat…
→ read full articleActivists on the Ship ‘Rachel Corrie’ Challenge Israel’s Unjust Gaza Blockade and Zionist Myths
Prof. Ira Chernus - Alternet,
7 Jun 2010
Another ship is steaming across the Mediterranean toward Gaza, loaded with humanitarian supplies, posing another impossible dilemma for the government of Israel.
→ read full article“TERRORISM” IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
Ira Chernus - Alternet,
12 Apr 2010
Whatever those slippery words “terrorism” and “terrorist” may mean, they must never be applied to violence committed or paid for by the U.S. government.
→ read full articleZIONISM VS. ZIONISM
Ira Chernus,
19 Sep 2009
It was a telling coincidence that two reports were issued on the very same day. The Geneva Initiative, a group of Israeli and Palestinian diplomats and technical experts, released its updated 400-page plan, spelling out the practical details of a reasonable two-state settlement. But Israeli newspapers barely noticed. They were too busy headlining the other […]
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