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Current Issue
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Overcoming Impunity
The title of this issue, “Overcoming Impunity,” could easily have been called “Overcoming Censorship.” Our author, Joel Kovel, is a psychiatrist, academic, human rights activist and environmentalist who, in 1998, ran as the Green Party’s candidate for U.S. Senator from New York. He is also Jewish, and when he wrote a book in which he supported a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian question, i.e., a de-zionized, secular, democratic state in historic Palestine, he—and his publisher—were told by the University of Michigan Press that his book “Overcoming Zionism” had crossed the line and that U.M.P. would no longer distribute it in the United States. To make sure that didn’t happen, AMEU now carries the banned book in its catalog (see pages 13 and 14). And we invited Dr. Kovel to summarize his arguments for our Link readers. This does not necessarily mean that we subscribe to the one-state proposal. We believe the ultimate deciders must be the Israelis and Palestinians themselves. For that to happen, though, we do believe that an open discussion of all the alternatives, including the one-state proposal, is essential. John F. Kennedy once wrote: “We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.” In our continuing series, The Link’s Links, we interview James Ennes, Jr., who was the lieutenant on the bridge of the USS Liberty when it was attacked by Israel in 1967. See page 12.— John F. Mahoney, Executive Director, January 2009.
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