Articles by Joseph Massad

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Why Academic Scholarship on Israel and Palestine Threatens Western Elites
Joseph Massad | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2024

18 Jun 2024 – No institution in the liberal West is safe from pro-Israel repression, especially universities whose knowledge production has dismantled the official consensus. The gap is most apparent in the US but also in the UK and France.

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Israel and the Politics of Boycott
Joseph Massad – Al Jazeera, 25 Mar 2013

Zionism and Israel will continue to support any boycott that seeks to institutionalise racism and racial separatism. For Zionism, what mattered most was its commitment to racial separatism, whether in Germany or Palestine, and it supported only those boycotts that would bring it about.

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The Compulsion to Partition
Joseph Massad – Al Jazeera, 13 Aug 2012

Palestinian rejection of the Partition Plan was rational – it was never a traumatic event. Whether a Palestinian “state” is admitted to the General Assembly or not, this compulsion to re-enact and repeat the partition plan is doomed to the same fate as its predecessors, as it will not lead to the “two-state solution”.”. Its failure, however, will be nothing short of another boon for the goal of a decolonised and democratic one state and for Palestinian liberation.

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Nuclear Israel Revisited
Joseph Massad – Al Jazeera, 14 Nov 2011

How many times must this story be retold? The international press has been reporting on it since the late 1960s. In 1953, President Dwight Eisenhower gave Israel its first small nuclear reactor at Nahal Sorek; in 1964, the French built for Israel its much larger and major Dimona nuclear reactor in the Naqab (Negev) Desert; in 1965, Israel stole 200 pounds of weapons-grade uranium from the United States through its spies at the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation company in Pennsylvania; in 1968, Israel hijacked a Liberian ship in international waters and stole its 200-ton shipment of yellowcake.

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Are Palestinian Children Less Worthy?
Joseph Massad – Al Jazeera, 6 Jun 2011

Although Palestinian children endure lives of suffering, Obama’s love for their Israeli counterparts knows no limit. What is it about Jewish and Arab children that privileges the first and spurns the second in his speeches? Are Jewish children smarter, prettier, whiter? Are they deserving of sympathy and solidarity, denied to Arab children, because they are innocent, “the children of Israel”? Or, is it that Arab children are dangerous, threatening, guilty, even dark and ugly? Not only are Palestinian children guilty of hating Israeli Jews, but also, Obama insists, they have no reason to hate Jews unless their evil elders indoctrinate them to do so.

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