For The Record: Political Notes by Oded Goldreich

	Children enthusiastic about the state, its army, and its wars. [A comparative study, in photos (2011)]
	This photo requires no graphical comparison. It was taken in a demo of Israel Fascists in Tel-Aviv (Aug 2014). It is not clear to me if they were not aware of the original or were trying to preempt the parallel and say that they don't fear it.				One People One State One Leader
	Shuhada street in Hebron used to be a busy market (see left). For twenty years now it is a prison (see right [2015]): The entries to the houses are sealed, the terraces are cages, the inhabitants can only enter and exit via their back door so that the street is ``safe for Jews''.				In general, the 180,000 Palestinian inhabitants of the city are oppressed for the protection of a few hundred jewish settlers

• The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. [Albert Einstein]
• The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It is the people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages. [Banksy]
• If you have critique on our [form of] resistance, then you better have an established record of critique on our oppression. If you have no interest in equal rights for black people, then do not make suggestions to those who do. [Jesse Williams (2020)]

Israel's PM (June 2015): Israel is more respectful of human rights than ISIS.

On How things changed in 25 year as reflected in a newspaper article on Moshe Feiglin (published Dec 1995, reproduced in Mar 2019).

The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism: see Hebrew and English texts (2020).

Letter to EU calling for recognition of Palestine, May 2024.

Actual texts (by O.G.):

• On Possible Justifications of Boycott, Jan 2014 [based on thoughts that date back to the early 2000s].
• Notes on short talks regrading the Gaza'14 War, in Hebrew, Aug 2014.
• Notes from a conference on Rosa Luxemburg, in Hebrew, Feb 2015.
• Notes from the 11th Marx conference, in Hebrew, Nov 2017.
• Brief points on the new and the old authoritative-right, in Hebrew, Apr 2022.
• Texts regarding Israel's attack on Gaza (2023-5).

[Last update: Jan 30th, 2025]