Discussion and book signing with Alexander Cockburn as he presents his new book, Politics of Anti-Semitism (AK Press)
How did a term, once used accurately to describe the most virulent evil, become a charge flung at the mildest critic of Israel, particularly concerning its atrocious treatment of Palestinians? ?One answer is that there's no more explosive topic in American public life today than the issue of Israel, its oppression of Palestinians and its influence on American politics. Yet the topic is one that is so hedged with anxiety, fury and fear, that honest discussion is often impossible. ?One source of honest discussion over recent years has been the print and online journal CounterPunch, edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair. ?It has become a must read ?for hundreds of thousands a month who no longer believe ?anything they read in the mainstream press beyond the sports ?scores. On the subject of Israel and Palestine, the Israeli lobby in the U.S., the current Middle East crisis, and its ramifications at home and abroad, CounterPunch and www.counterpunch.org have been unrivaled. ?
This groundbreaking book includes essays by Edward Said, Robert Fisk, Norman Finkelstein, Shaheed Alam. ?This first book in the new CounterPunch series is a timely anthology on the compulsion of silence and complicity in crimes against a betrayed people.
Radical journalist Alexander Cockburn is a columnist for The Nation and the co-author of the recent book Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press among others.
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