Post-Book Launch and benefit for anarchists against the wall
?? | 28.03.2006 23:12 | London
Inconjunction with Pluto Press and THE SQUARE
In aid of Anarchist Against The Wall
Featuring a screening of the Oscar nominated film PARADISE NOW Followed by DJ's
8pm Doors (make a donation to Anarchists against the Wall)
Presentation from Author Arthur Neslen
9pm Paradise Now
10.30pm DJ Tayna winston (Middle eastern, African and Latin House)
*OCCUPIED MINDS - A Journey through the Israeli Psyche
by Arthur Neslen
Israel's founders sought to create a nation of new Jews who would never again go meekly to the death camps. Yet Israel's strength has become synonymous with an oppression of the Palestinians that provokes anger throughout the Muslim world and beyond. How are Israelis able to see themselves as victims while victimising others? What does Israeli Jewish identity mean today?
Arthur Neslen explores the dynamics, distortions and incredible diversity of Israeli society. From the mouths of soldiers, settlers, sex workers and the victims of suicide attacks, Occupied Minds is the story of a national psyche that has become scarred by mental security barriers, emotional checkpoints and displaced outposts of self-righteousness and aggression.
From vignettes to in-depth interviews, more than fifty Israelis offer their accounts. What they reveal is in turn powerful, haunting, subtle and disturbing. Illustrated throughout with photographs, this unique book offers an unrivalled insight into Israeli consciousness, private and public.
It charts the evolution of a communal self-image based on cultural and religious values towards one formed around a single militaristic imperative: national security.
In aid of Anarchist Against The Wall
Featuring a screening of the Oscar nominated film PARADISE NOW Followed by DJ's
8pm Doors (make a donation to Anarchists against the Wall)
Presentation from Author Arthur Neslen
9pm Paradise Now
10.30pm DJ Tayna winston (Middle eastern, African and Latin House)
*OCCUPIED MINDS - A Journey through the Israeli Psyche
by Arthur Neslen
Israel's founders sought to create a nation of new Jews who would never again go meekly to the death camps. Yet Israel's strength has become synonymous with an oppression of the Palestinians that provokes anger throughout the Muslim world and beyond. How are Israelis able to see themselves as victims while victimising others? What does Israeli Jewish identity mean today?
Arthur Neslen explores the dynamics, distortions and incredible diversity of Israeli society. From the mouths of soldiers, settlers, sex workers and the victims of suicide attacks, Occupied Minds is the story of a national psyche that has become scarred by mental security barriers, emotional checkpoints and displaced outposts of self-righteousness and aggression.
From vignettes to in-depth interviews, more than fifty Israelis offer their accounts. What they reveal is in turn powerful, haunting, subtle and disturbing. Illustrated throughout with photographs, this unique book offers an unrivalled insight into Israeli consciousness, private and public.
It charts the evolution of a communal self-image based on cultural and religious values towards one formed around a single militaristic imperative: national security.
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Before Holocaust
29.03.2006 09:21
Gary24
when?
29.03.2006 10:23
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question everything
29.03.2006 10:44
Too true, it is important to recognise the amount of anarchists slaughtered in the camps, of all religions and races but especially Jewish. Anarchists have to remember that because noone else does.
>Infact one of the unspoken things about the Holocaust is how that massive block of Radical Jews was wiped out.
Decimated perhaps but not wiped out, there are still an amazing number of Jewish anarchists doing great work like the event above. Considering the number of early anarchists who were anti-semitic, and subsequent history, it is good to see they still claim anarchy as their own:
“Aren’t we always taught to question stuff?” he asks. “Any wonder you become an anarchist? Learn how to question and you question everyone.”
nad