Articles by Mark LeVine
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On Balfour’s 100th Anniversary, Time for a New Definition of Sovereignty, Independence and the Nation-State
Mark LeVine and Mathias Mossberg | Tikkun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
November 2nd marks the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, the letter from Britain’s Foreign Secretary, Lord Arthur James Balfour to British Jewish leader Walter Rothschild in which the British Government promised Jews a “national home” in Palestine should they win the war, while offering only to safeguard the “civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities.”
→ read full articleWhat Did the UN Apartheid Report Expose in Reality?
Mark LeVine – Al Jazeera,
27 Mar 2017
As Israel moves towards confronting apartheid, the questions raised by the report will become impossible to avoid.
→ read full articleThe Tide Is Turning against Zionist Extremism
Mark LeVine – Al Jazeera,
26 Oct 2015
The inherent contradiction of Israel as both a modern democratic state and brutal occupier is becoming clear to all. Anti-BDS initiatives are doomed to fail, particularly when they attempt to bully universities and even Jewish students into muting criticism.
→ read full articleThinking Outside the Oslo Box
Mark LeVine & Mathias Mossberg – Al Jazeera America,
8 Dec 2014
The Oslo Accord has failed to bring justice to Palestinians or peace and security to Israelis. As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict once again spirals toward large-scale violence, the United States’ policymaking establishment is finally coming to grips with the demise of the Oslo peace process.
→ read full articleThe Deep Roots beneath 1,000,000 Dead Iraqis
Mark LeVine – Al Jazeera,
21 Oct 2013
Iraq continues to suffer the legacy of two decades of US military intervention and meddling, with little end in sight.
→ read full articleScholars and Spies: A Disastrous Combination
Mark LeVine – Al Jazeera,
10 Dec 2012
The academic community needs to create a clear firewall between itself and the military and intelligence communities. Buried in a Washington Post exposé on the expansion of spying operations by the Defence Intelligence Agency is a sentence that should send shivers down the spine of any researcher, journalist, student or scholar working in the Muslim world: “Having DIA operatives pose as academics or business executives requires painstaking work to create those false identities, and it means they won’t be protected by diplomatic immunity if caught.”
→ read full articleDreaming of the Apocalypse
Mark LeVine – Al Jazeera,
17 Sep 2012
If ever real leadership was needed among American, European and Arab leaders, it’s now. “Disgusting and Reprehensible!” That’s how Secretary of State Hilary Clinton described the “film” Innocence of Muslims in the latest official US comment on the movie that has sparked outrage across the Muslim world.
→ read full articleWhen Philosophers Join the Kill Chain
Mark LeVine – Al Jazeera,
13 Aug 2012
The most vehement debates on the use of force by the US surround attacks by remotely-piloted drone aircraft. Plato was likely not the first thinker to understand that what goes by the name of “justice” is often merely the violence and thievery practiced by those holding the reins of power. For Plato, their ability to continue to rule depended on imposing upon the weak the very rules they routinely break to maintain their position.
→ read full articleAn Initial Libyan Scorecard
Mark LeVine – Al Jazeera,
29 Aug 2011
Rebuilding Libya, which is blessed with such a wealth of resources, will take massive efforts on the part of Arab, African and international civil societies, to ensure that the Libyan people aren’t sacrificed at the altar of oil profits and special ops bases for deepening US involvement in Africa; that as has happened in so many other countries, the “oil curse” doesn’t doom the country to another four decades of corrupt and kleptocratic rule.
→ read full articleWhy Boycott Israel?
Lisa Taraki and Mark LeVine – Al Jazeera,
15 Aug 2011
A founding member of the campaign for the academic and cultural boycott outlines the motivation behind the movement. Author and history professor Mark LeVine speaks with sociologist Lisa Taraki, a co-founder of the Palestinian campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.
→ read full articleHistory’s Shifting Sands
Mark LeVine – Al Jazeera,
7 Mar 2011
The revolutions sweeping the Arab world indicate a tectonic shift in the global balance of people power. For decades, even centuries, the peoples of the Arab world have been told by Europeans and, later, Americans that their societies were stagnant and backward. According to Lord Cromer, author of the 1908 pseudo-history Modern Egypt, their progress was “arrested” by the very fact of their being Muslim, by virtue of which their minds were as “strange” to that of a modern Western man “as would be the mind of an inhabitant of Saturn”.
→ read full articleNo More Rage against the Machine
Mark LeVine - Aljazeera,
8 Nov 2010
Where is the anger at the horrors revealed in the latest Wikileaks Iraq war logs? Dishearteningly unsurprising. This somewhat awkward phrase is, to my mind, the best description of the emotional and moral impact of Wikileak’s release of 400,000 classified US military documents.
→ read full article…Meanwhile, over in Ghana
Mark LeVine – Al Jazeera,
13 Sep 2010
Ghana maybe championed for its political stability, but life for the average Ghanaian is defined by crippling poverty.
→ read full articleThe Meaning of Strangulation
Mark LeVine – Al Jazeera,
21 Jun 2010
The remarks were not made in anger or haste, as were the now infamous, flippant and ill-conceived comments that cost White House reporter Helen Thomas her job, if not her legacy. Instead, they were made quite deliberately, with an air of thoughtfulness, while leaning over a lectern, as if lecturing to a class. Thomas was forced into retirement for declaring that Jews “should get the hell out of Palestine,” but New York Senator Chuck Schumer, one of the most powerful politicians in the US, has avoided any criticism or even major press coverage for remarks he made only days later that supported the continued “economic strangulation” of Gaza; in part, because, he essentially argues, the inhabitants of the benighted Strip are not Jewish.
→ read full articleWHO WILL SAVE ISRAEL FROM ITSELF?
Mark LeVine,
12 Jan 2009
One by one the justifications given by Israel for its latest war in Gaza are unravelling. The argument that this is a purely defensive war, launched only after Hamas broke a six-month ceasefire has been challenged, not just by observers in the know such as Jimmy Carter, the former US president who helped facilitate the […]
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