Political web-page of Oded Goldreich

The War, Otto Dix, 1932 The Pillars of Society, George Grosz, 1926

Material available below

On posting personal political views here: a sort of apology.
On the request to write in Hebrew, July 2011.
My political views, an old version (Jan. 2003).
Palestine and Israel: Facts and Opinions, April 2004.
On politics and academia, a webpage started in July 2007.
Reviews of some books and lecture series (in Hebrew):
- Reading the Capital with David Harvey, lecture notes, 2009-12.
- Review of David Harvey's book ``Rebel Cities'', Oct. 2012
- On the Possibility of a Humanistic Justification of Zionism: Review of a book of Chaim Gans, Jan 2014.
- Review of David Harvey's Brief History of Neoliberalism, July 2015.
- Reading the Capital with Gideon Freudenthal, lecture notes, May-July 2017.
- Review of Michael Sfard's book on the legal struggle against the occupation of the West Bank, April 2022.
A collection of short essays (in Hebrew), including
- When the value of human life depends on the human's loyalty (in Hebrew), June 2010. [English digest]
- On The Fear of Taking a Moral Stand (in Hebrew), Nov. 2010. Interestingly enough, Haaretz chose to published a mild version that omitted the more general claims made in the original.
- On the state of the economy (in Hebrew), July 2011.
- Reality, Danger, Hope, and Duty (in Hebrew), Aug 2014.
- Communication without contents (in Hebrew), Aug 2017.
The Israel Prize Affair (2021-22), April 2022.
For the record: a collection of notes.

Videos and podcasts (all in Hebrew)

On contents-oblivious measures of quality and the control of academia, Academia for Equality, February 2017.
An alternative Israel Prize Award Ceremony, Weizmann Institute of Science, April 2021.
PodCast interview by Hadash, May 2022.
Alterantive I-Day ceremony, May 2022.

My political views (a brief summary (from early 2000s)):

The Israeli society has been degenerating morally and intellectually for several decades, and has reached a disgustingly low point. This degeneration is due in part to a global degeneration (lead by the USA), but is actually dominated by a local factor: I refer to the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which is a brutal system of ethnic subordiantion (i.e., a system that violates the most basic human rights of the Palestinians and brutalizes the Israeli society). Thus, the single most important change that should take place is the immediate ending of this occupation.

Turning from the most concrete and immediate to the most general and long-range, I call for moving from a soceity organized according to the rational of capital-gain (i.e., a Capitalist soceity) to a soceity organized for the benefit of mankind (i.e., a Socialist soceity). In the short range, the neo-conservative attack on the welfare-state and organized labor has to be blocked, and social (i.e., democratic) regulation of the economy has to be promoted.

And in the meanwhile (as well as in the latter days), I call for safe-guarding of human rights. In particular, I call for the de-militarization of the Israeli Society, abolishing all forms of discrimination against Israeli Arabs, Women, and Gay/Lesbians, providing fair treatment of foreign workers, separation of State and Religious Affairs, and providing a critical analysis of (mass and elite) Culture.

A concrete suggestion: support HADASH (see facebook site), the only political party in the Israeli parliament that is committed to all these views.

[Last update: March 15th, 2006]

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	The War, Otto Dix, 1932		The Pillars of Society, George Grosz, 1926