Here are links to three articles I've written touching on Palestine in the last few years. Inevitably, they are already dated, but might still be of interest.
The first is a review of Norman Finkelstein's Beyond Chutzpah in Village Magazine. Village, both in its more recent low-profile manifestation, and in its original version edited by Vincent Browne with Sarah Burke, was one of the few Irish publications to take the question of Palestine seriously, and to be open to critical views. Norman Finkelstein has been a radical historian of and commentator on the Israel/Palestine conflict for 30 years, since his brilliant debunking of Joan Peters's From Time Immemorial. Beyond Chutzpah, which has since gone to a second edition, remains useful as a critique of the political use of the 'anti-Semitism' slur, and as a powerful human-rights-orientated rebuttal of Alan Dershowitz's The Case for Israel.
Beyond Chutzpah in Ireland
The second article is an essay I published in 2010 in The Citizen, the magazine of the Ireland Institute, a think-tank on modern republicanism in Ireland based in the Pearse Centre in Dublin. The essay's endorsement of the Goldstone Report would seem to have been rendered out of date by Judge Goldstone's subsequent recantations. Yet the furore the Report created at the time, the immense pressure then put on Goldstone, and the perceived propaganda victory for Israel of his turn away from the implications of his work perhaps bear out its original power.
Palestine, Once Again the Issue
The third piece is a review of Gideon Levy's The Punishment of Gaza, written for the Irish Left Review in 2010. Levy is a columnist with the Israeli daily, Ha'aretz.
The Punishment of Gaza
The first is a review of Norman Finkelstein's Beyond Chutzpah in Village Magazine. Village, both in its more recent low-profile manifestation, and in its original version edited by Vincent Browne with Sarah Burke, was one of the few Irish publications to take the question of Palestine seriously, and to be open to critical views. Norman Finkelstein has been a radical historian of and commentator on the Israel/Palestine conflict for 30 years, since his brilliant debunking of Joan Peters's From Time Immemorial. Beyond Chutzpah, which has since gone to a second edition, remains useful as a critique of the political use of the 'anti-Semitism' slur, and as a powerful human-rights-orientated rebuttal of Alan Dershowitz's The Case for Israel.
Beyond Chutzpah in Ireland
The second article is an essay I published in 2010 in The Citizen, the magazine of the Ireland Institute, a think-tank on modern republicanism in Ireland based in the Pearse Centre in Dublin. The essay's endorsement of the Goldstone Report would seem to have been rendered out of date by Judge Goldstone's subsequent recantations. Yet the furore the Report created at the time, the immense pressure then put on Goldstone, and the perceived propaganda victory for Israel of his turn away from the implications of his work perhaps bear out its original power.
Palestine, Once Again the Issue
The third piece is a review of Gideon Levy's The Punishment of Gaza, written for the Irish Left Review in 2010. Levy is a columnist with the Israeli daily, Ha'aretz.
The Punishment of Gaza
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