amateur ramblings » tikvah: students for israel

Solidarity is a weapon against Israeli propaganda

yaman — Fri, 07 May 2010 02:09:33 +0000

Perhaps the most important success of the divestment movement at Berkeley has been overlooked. Yes, it is true that a super majority of the student senate supported divestment from Israeli war crimes and the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. It is true that the vote was reversed only after pro-Israel mobilization kicked in to remind [...]

November 13th and the Whitewashing of a Berkeley Hate Crime

yaman — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:43:23 +0000

As the House of Representatives passed its delusional resolution condemning the Goldstone Report last week, Congressman Kucinich forcefully objected: “Almost as serious as committing war crimes is covering up war crimes, pretending that war crimes were never committed and did not exist. Because behind every such deception is the nullification of humanity, the destruction of [...]

Israeli Peace and Diversity Week at Berkeley, another Tikvah sham

yaman — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:28:17 +0000

UC Berkeley student group Tikvah’s “Israeli Peace and Diversity Week” makes two claims about Israel that are simply not borne out by history. The first is that there is such a thing as Israeli peace, even in the wake of the recent Israeli massacres that killed over 1,300 people in Gaza and prompted Amnesty International [...]

The incoherence of the Zionist Freedom Alliance

yaman — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:59:08 +0000

Recent weeks have seen the appearance of a group called the Zionist Freedom Alliance at UC Berkeley. It is not clear at this point what the group’s affiliation is with Tikvah, however all the major members of Tikvah work with the Alliance, which sponsored Israeli Liberation Week. The Zionist Freedom Alliance reflects the desperate and [...]

Racism is part of the problem in Israel-Palestine, not the solution

yaman — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:27:15 +0000

Tikvah Students for Israel’s false accusations that SJP members are behind hateful vandalism at UC Berkeley exacerbate campus tensions and endanger students on campus rather than defuse the situation Anybody who has studied the Israeli occupation of Palestine knows that supremacist arguments and narratives frame much of the dissent against and support for Israeli state [...]

Understanding political tokenism

yaman — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:52:28 +0000

Since my encounter with Ismail Khaldi, I have been thinking of the crucial defining characteristic of a “token” in political terms. I think I understand it now, after having seen The Spook Who Sat By The Door. Not only does the token in his appointed capacity have no power to change a system’s design or [...]

Tikvah: Students for Israel’s false hope

yaman — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:15:40 +0000

Yesterday, members of Students for Justice in Palestine held a die-in on campus in solidarity with the people of Gaza, 116 of whom were killed by Israeli attacks over the past few days. In typical fashion, a small number of people from the new organization Tikvah: Students for Israel appeared to counter-protest. Their counter-protest consisted [...]

ISRAEL WANTS PEACE!

yaman — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:38:16 +0000

Israel MTV comes to campus!

yaman — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:26:19 +0000

The MTV version of Israel is coming to campus tonight in the form of Israel 360, a way cool presentation with cool facts about Israel! Tila Tequila might not be there, but we’ll still be able to liven it up by showing you the friendly, funny side of Israel! We’ll even be having a raffle [...]