Stories continued: Interview from Saber Kushour

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/25/saber-kushour-rape-deception-charge

From Guardian NP
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Kushour's conviction has transfixed Israel. Some see echoes of a primeval - and racist - instinct to protect "our" women against outside marauders. Others are outraged at what they see as a blatant injustice, pointing to a backdrop of widespread, systematic and - some say - growing discrimination against Arabs who make up 20% of Israel's population.

"This is a most amazing decision by the court," says Tamar Hermann of the Israel Democracy Institute. "Deception is one thing - but to be convicted of rape?" It has, she says, "struck a sensitive chord in the Israeli mainstream of Arabs pretending to be Jews."

The issue of identity is paramount in a land where both communities regard each other with suspicion and hostility.

Yuval Yonay, a sociology professor at Haifa University, in one of Israel's few mixed cities, says Kushour's behaviour "might be improper but it is not rape".

He says that in 16 years of teaching at a university where 20-25% of the student population is Arab, he has "never even heard of a mixed relationship". Discrimination against Arabs is, he says, evident at all levels.

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Arab guilty of rape after consensual sex with Jew
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/21/arab-guilty-rape-consensual-sex-jew

Obama, please get out of the peace process, please.

Unless the US stops pretending that it can play a neutral role in the negotiation process between Israel and Palestine, the occupation will never end, and peace will never come to exist.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/19/headlines#6

"pop up" restaurants

From BBC The Food Programme

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As part of the Radio 4 season, London: Another Country? The Food Programme looks at the growth of the capital's underground supper clubs and its connection to a 1930's block of flats, the Isokon building.

Why are today's Londoners embracing the concept of turning their homes into "pop up" restaurants and inviting strangers in to dine?

Food writer Tim Hayward believes the answer lies in the story of a dining club founded in 1930's London called "The Half Hundred". Many of its members were artists, designers and writers and residents of the Isokon building. The group set out to challenge established thinking about dining out in London. Is that what today's "pop up" hosts are setting out to do? Sheila Dillon finds out.

Produced by Dan Saladino.

I think

What we desperately need for future community/ dialogical art projects is not those who learn management and fundrasing skills, but who learn international/local politics and international/local economy, religion, and phillosophy、no?