Zionism, the Jewish nationalist philosophy that underlies the state of Israel, entails two kinds of essentialism: Jewishness for Jews and anti-Semitism for gentiles. In other words, no matter how hard they try, Jews cannot stop being Jewish and gentiles cannot stop being anti-Semites. (But see Shlomo Sand’s How I Stopped Being a Jew.)
Anti-War Blog – Admit to a war crime, now what?
Dave DeCamp from Antiwar.com reported in a recent piece that the Pentagon admitted in its annual report to having committed two large-scale massacres against civilians in Yemen. The Pentagon acknowledged that hundreds of civilians, including children were killed and...
