By Haaretz Service Haaretz 31 march 2007
Linguist and left-wing activist Professor Tanya Reinhardt died in New York on Saturday at age 63.
Reinhardt, one of the most outspoken representatives of the radical Israeli left, was a fierce critic of the 1993 Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, saying they represented a perpetuation of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. She was also a proponent of an academic boycott of Israeli universities to protest the occupation.
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By Antony Loewenstein New Matilda 21 March 2007
The Jewish establishment claims to speak for all Jews and have Israel’s best interests at heart. In fact, the opposite is true.
Take the late February example of Israeli military using Palestinian human shields during a raid in Nablus, despite t he practice being outlawed by the Israeli High Court. Human rights groups in Israel and internationally condemned the action, but the Jewish community remained mute.
Did they agree? Is their loathing for Palestinians so deep that they can’t see the long-term ramifications? This moral degradation is a daily occurrence in the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine, and yet most Jews remain silent — complicit in the crimes.
But the times are a’ changing.
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