http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/06/06/this-week-in-israel-what-goin-on/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:43:17 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/06/06/this-week-in-israel-what-goin-on/comment-page-1/#comment-114368 Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place » Global Voices Online Excludes Tikun Olam From ‘Israel’ Category Sun, 18 Jun 2006 08:59:53 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/?p=11307#comment-114368 [...] It’s for that reason that I think it’s critical to include voices like Tikun Olam. After all, my Israeli-Palestinian section is solely about Israel and its relations with its enemy-neighbor much like the blogs Lisa Goldman reviews for GVO (though to be fair, she does review blogs focussed on non-political issues). But I bring a slightly more independent, disinterested viewpoint to the conversation. If you look at Lisa Goldman’s roundups you’ll see that the politics of the blogs she covers are mostly (though not exclusively) right of center, sometimes far to the right. And when she does include progressive voices she’ll invariably use terms like “leftist” (as she’s done twice in her most recent report) to characterize the blog’s viewpoint. She doesn’t even realize the judgmental nature of the term (and certainly wasn’t intending to offend). But as someone whose views of this conflict have been disparaged numerous times by hardline pro-Israel readers, I know how the term is used and how it feels to have someone spit it at you (not that this was by any means Lisa’s intent). [...] [...] It’s for that reason that I think it’s critical to include voices like Tikun Olam. After all, my Israeli-Palestinian section is solely about Israel and its relations with its enemy-neighbor much like the blogs Lisa Goldman reviews for GVO (though to be fair, she does review blogs focussed on non-political issues). But I bring a slightly more independent, disinterested viewpoint to the conversation. If you look at Lisa Goldman’s roundups you’ll see that the politics of the blogs she covers are mostly (though not exclusively) right of center, sometimes far to the right. And when she does include progressive voices she’ll invariably use terms like “leftist” (as she’s done twice in her most recent report) to characterize the blog’s viewpoint. She doesn’t even realize the judgmental nature of the term (and certainly wasn’t intending to offend). But as someone whose views of this conflict have been disparaged numerous times by hardline pro-Israel readers, I know how the term is used and how it feels to have someone spit it at you (not that this was by any means Lisa’s intent). [...]

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