Current Events From Academia Group Psychoanalysis for Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs — Part 2 February 25, 2018 Sherry Oz No Comments In Part 1 of this series, I critiqued the conclusion of a recently published paper by psychotherapist Paul Solomon. He discusses how group psychoanalysis can help us understand the itchy…
Current Events From Academia Group Psychoanalysis For Israeli Jews And Palestinian Arabs — Part 1 February 24, 2018 Sherry Oz No Comments Can theories of psychoanalysis help us understand the Israeli-“Palestinian” conflict? Can they offer us new ways to resolve the conflict? Psychotherapist Paul Solomon would answer in the affirmative. He recently…
Current Events From Academia Bashing Israel In A Linguistics Paper Without Being Noam Chomsky February 19, 2018 Sherry Oz No Comments What can I say! It looks like every topic of scholastic endeavour can be used to vilify Israel. Who cares if the work makes sense? The main thing is to…
Current Events From Academia US Army Goes Academic With Stupid (Hopefully Not Dangerous) Results January 2, 2018 Sherry Oz No Comments Everyone wants to be a hero and solve the “Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”. What do you get when an American army officer writes a semi-academic paper recommending strategy for continuing the training…
Current Events From Academia Palestinian Arab Students: Because Of The “Israeli Occupation” December 13, 2017 Sherry Oz No Comments Another Wizard of Oz in academia. Here is an article that seems to damn the “Israeli Occupation” but it does not, really. The authors should have had the sense not…
Current Events From Academia Israel As A Settler-Colonial Project — Foundation Of A Theory December 4, 2017 Sherry Oz No Comments An academic make-believe story for the gullible scholar. The paper I am looking at right now, written by the late Australian anthropologist Patrick Wolfe, was published in 2006 and has…
Current Events From Academia Why Israel Needs The Palestinian Arabs November 29, 2017 Sherry Oz No Comments Without them, our whole “settler-colonial” society would collapse from within, according to a world renowned scholar. Patrick Wolfe (1949-2016) was an Australian anthropologist; he seems to be one of the…
Current Events From Academia Some have said that Israel is a shitty country November 24, 2017 Sherry Oz No Comments And here is proof from our very own Hebrew University of Jerusalem! Two scholars at the Hebrew U. got together to write an article about how Israel commits child abuse…
Current Events From Academia Jews Colonized In Foreign Lands And At Home — Antisemitism On A Carousel November 11, 2017 Sherry Oz No Comments This is about antisemitism and mind games and colonizers and the colonized. The inspiration leading to my reflections here was found in a relatively recent article published in the prestigious…
Current Events From Academia Does Israel Miss The British Mandate? We Might Just. October 3, 2017 Sherry Oz No Comments Seems we Israelis, or some of us, may have been nostalgic for the British Mandate period for — well, for ever-since-the-Brits-got-on-their-boats-and-shipped-back-to-the-UK. Professor Eitan Bar-Yosef of Ben Gurion University says we…