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is the UK Director of Deir Yassin Remembered. Apart from Deir Yassin and its meaning, he has written on Israel/Palestine, Jewishness, Jewish power and the Holocaust. He lives in London with his wife and close to his grown-up children. Paul Eisen can be contacted at: paul@eisen.demon.co.uk
Jeff Halper
Below is a piece by Susan Abulhawa about Jeff Halper. Susan is a Palestinian currently exiled in the USA and a member of the Deir Yassin Remembered Board of…
Deir Yassin Day in Geneva, New York
(From a post by Dan McGowan, Director (US) Deir Yassin Remembered) Deir Yassin Day 2012 was commemorated (in part) in Geneva, New York. Eighteen people came, including an Israeli and two…
In clear sight of Yad Vashem
Over the years, our attention has been drawn to the close proximity of the village of Deir Yassin to the Jewish Holocaust memorial at Yad Vashem. Jews have been encouraged…
Jesus’ Broken Heart
This year on the 9th April, Deir Yassin Day – the 64th anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre – falls as so often, in Easter when Christians commemorate the crucifixion and…
Deir Yassin Day in London
(With thanks to Stuart Littlewood http://www.deliberation.info/flying-into-tel-aviv-then-its-welcome-to-palestine/) On April 23 inLondon, Deir Yassin Remembered and The General Union of Palestinian Students will be commemorating Deir Yassin Day 2012. Deir Yassin Day…
Once a Jew…?
We’re all agreed then, we’re all anti-Semites now but lurking underneath are the questions: What is a Jew? And, once a Jew, always a Jew? Up till now, or at…
We’re all anti-Semites now!
Solar, one of our commentators asks me to name one living anti-Semite. I’m happy enough to do this but before I do, I ask him what he means by the term. Solar is reluctant to…
Ali Abunimah and his Solidarity Career.
Ali Abunimah’s intervention and denunciation of Gilad is nothing new. Over five years ago he did exactly the same to Israel Shamir, Deir Yassin Remembered and me. But why then…
“Chorus of Exiled Palestinians”
I’m not sure how this will be received at deLiberation. It’s “Chorus of Palestinian Exiles” from the 2003 film of the opera “Death of Klinghoffer”. I got it from Harry’s…
The Jew of Conscience
In what must be the most disgusting hasbara-style personal attack I have ever read http://frontpagemag.com/2012/02/29/sex-marxism-and-fraud/ I learn that they’re trying to get rid of Marc Ellis. This real Jew of…
Before it’s too late… #2
I can’t vouch for the absolute accuracy of the list below, but I’m confident it gives a truthful picture of Jewish expulsions over the last 1700 years. I also don’t…
Before it’s too late…
Listen to this man I love Ken O’ Keefe. I love the way he looks. I love the way he sounds, I even love his accent. But most of all…
One Billboard in Detroit
Written by Henry Herskovitz GPS and Google-map geeks may refer to the following coordinates to locate what we believe is the only billboard in the entire Midwest (we could be…
From the people who brought you ‘The Destruction of Dresden’… ‘The Flattening of Duren’
For all its notoriety the attack on Dresden was nothing like as severe as those on, for example, Berlin Cologne, Essen and Hamburg. But the German town whose fate moves me most is…
There are more questions than answers…
Watching Norman Finkelstein on BDS and reading the comments I just get more questions than answers. We’re all opposed to Israel – either to its existence or just because it…
We Stand With Israel
I’m a bit nervous about posting this. It describes the impact of the 1967 June War on a seventeen-year old Jewish kid. I’m nervous because I can see how it could…
Happy Valentine’s Day from the city of Dresden
Today is Valentine’s Day. It’s also the middle of three days when, in 1945 the German city of Dresden was bombed by the Anglo-Americans. On a visit to Germany with…
The Chief Rabbi’s Holocaust Memorial Day message
Genius! What’s strange is that, on face-value, there’s not a word with which I would disagree.…
Israeli cup own goal shocker!
This is crying out for a “Downfall”- type new soundtrack. Gilad?…
Pogrom! Who’s to blame?
In a little Polish village a drunken priest habitually drinks in a tavern owned by a Jewish tavern-keeper. One Sunday the local priest, deep into his cups, cannot pay his…
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Paul Eisen speaks with Gilad Atzmon
An insightful conversation between Gilad Atzmon and Paul Eisen. It takes a deep look into their minds and the troublesome relationship they hold with ‘Jewish identity politics’, ‘Jewish ideology’,’Jewish power’ and Jewish history alongside their prolonged intellectual and political activism.
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