Erasing a people by footnote: The case against ‘The Case for Israel’
Alan Dershowitz’s The Case for Israel (2003) is a seminal text in the canon of pro-Israel advocacy, yet it is essential to categorise it correctly from the outset: it is a work of jurisprudence, not historiography. Dershowitz, a celebrated appellate lawyer and Harvard Law professor, approaches the Israeli-Palestinian conflict not as a historian seeking to […]
Zionist poet sparks controversy at a poetry festival held in Kerala over genocide remarks
Kerala: The ‘Carnival of Poetry’ poetry festival held at Pattambi College in Kerala witnessed Zionist poet Aamir Orr igniting a firestorm of criticism with his comments on the Palestinian situation. Orr was participating in a poetry session alongside renowned Indian poet K. Satchidanandan and other speakers. During the discussion, he dismissed allegations of Zionist genocide […]
