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Drawing Fire

Investigating the Accusations of Apartheid in Israel

By: Benjamin Pogrund

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Drawing Fire

Investigating the Accusations of Apartheid in Israel

By: Benjamin Pogrund

Benjamin Pogrund, who spent 26 years as a journalist in South Africa investigating apartheid and who has been living in Israel for the past 15 years, investigates the accusation that Israel is practicing apartheid and the motives of those who make it. His study is founded on a belief in Israel, combined with frank criticism, to provide a balanced view of Israel’s strengths and problems. To understand Israel today, one must first look at the past and so the book first outlines key foundational events to explain current attitudes. It then explores the contradictions found in the region, including discrimination against Israeli Arabs and among Jews, before concluding that it is wrong to affix the apartheid label to Israel inside the Green Line of 1948/1967. It also deconstructs the criticisms of Israel and the boycott movement before arguing for two states, Israeli and Palestinian, as the only way forward for Jews and Arabs. This detailed and balanced study offers a unique comparison between South Africa a

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442226846

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War of Words

Memoir of a South African Journalist

By: Benjamin Pogrund

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War of Words

Memoir of a South African Journalist

By: Benjamin Pogrund

When Benjamin Pogrund, one of South Africa's most distinguished journalists, first began his career as a young reporter in the 1950s, "There had been little reason at that stage to believe that anything revolutionary was about to start." As the "African affairs reporter," and then deputy editor, it was Pogrund who first brought the words of black leaders like Robert Sobukwe and Nelson Mandela to the pages of South Africa's leading newspaper, the Rand Daily Mail. This was the period of apartheid in South Africa and for most of the next thirty years, the Rand Daily Mail was the country's liberal white voice against the tyranny of the Afrikaner Nationalist government. A riveting memoir and a complex commentary on apartheid and freedom of the press, War of Words offers an insider's perspective on one of the most turbulent, and arguably one of the most significant, periods in modern history.

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Seven Stories Press

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1888363711

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Robert Sobukwe - How can Man Die Better

(New Edition)

By: Benjamin Pogrund

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Robert Sobukwe - How can Man Die Better

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By: Benjamin Pogrund

I am greatly privileged to have known him and to have fallen under his spell. His long imprisonment, restriction and early death were a major tragedy for our land and the world.' - ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU on Sobukwe On 21 March 1960, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe led a mass defiance of South Africa's pass laws. He urged blacks to go to the nearest police station and demand arrest. Police opened fi re on a peaceful crowd in the township of Sharpeville and killed 69 people. This protest changed the course of South Africa's history. Sobukwe, leader of the Pan-Africanist Congress, was jailed for three years for incitement. At the end of his sentence the government rushed the so-called 'Sobukwe Clause' through Parliament, to keep him in prison without a trial. For the next six years Sobukwe was kept in solitary confinement on Robben Island. On his release Sobukwe was banished to the town of Kimberley, with very severe restrictions on his freedom, until his death in February 1978. This book is the story of a South African hero, and of the friendship between him and Benjamin Pogrund, whose joint experiences and debates chart the course of a tyrannous regime and the growth of black resistance. This new edition of How Can Man Die Better contains a number of previously unpublished photographs and an updated Epilogue.

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Jonathan Ball Publishers

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1868426823

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9781868426829

Drawing Fire

Investigating the Accusations of Apartheid in Israel

By: Benjamin Pogrund

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Investigating the Accusations of Apartheid in Israel

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War of Words

Memoir of a South African Journalist

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Unmaking the Presidency

Donald Trump's War on the World's Most Powerful Office

By: Susan Hennessey,Benjamin Wittes

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Unmaking the Presidency

Donald Trump's War on the World's Most Powerful Office

By: Susan Hennessey,Benjamin Wittes

This is a book for everyone who has developed an unexpected nostalgia for political 'norms' during the Trump years . . . Other books on the Trump White House expertly detail the mayhem inside; this book builds on those works to detail its consequences." —Carlos Lozada (one of twelve books to read "to understand what's going on") "Perhaps the most penetrating book to have been written about Trump in office."—Lawrence Douglas, The Times Literary Supplement The definitive account of how Donald Trump has wielded the powers of the American presidency The extraordinary authority of the U.S. presidency has no parallel in the democratic world. Today that authority resides in the hands of one man, Donald J. Trump. But rarely if ever has the nature of a president clashed more profoundly with the nature of the office. Unmaking the Presidency tells the story of the confrontation between a person and the institution he almost wholly embodies. From the moment of his inauguration, Trump has challenged our deepest expectations of the presidency. But what are those expectations, where did they come from, and how great is the damage? As editors of the “invaluable” (The New York Times) Lawfare website, Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes have attracted a large audience to their hard-hitting and highly informed commentary on the controversies surrounding the Trump administration. In this book, they situate Trump-era scandals and outrages in the deeper context of the presidency itself. How should we understand the oath of office when it is taken by a man who may not know what it means to preserve, protect, and defend something other than himself? What aspects of Trump are radically different from past presidents and what aspects have historical antecedents? When has he simply built on his predecessors’ misdeeds, and when has he invented categories of misrule entirely his own? By setting Trump in the light of history, Hennessey and Wittes provide a crucial and durable account of a presidency like no other.

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Macmillan + ORM

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0374718415

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Nelson Mandela

Leader Against Apartheid

By: Benjamin Pogrund

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Nelson Mandela

Leader Against Apartheid

By: Benjamin Pogrund

Insightful biographies into the lives, inspirations, and influences of some of the world's most prominent and powerful leaders.

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Blackbirch Press, Incorporated

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1567119786

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How Can Man Die Better

The Life of Robert Sobukwe

By: Benjamin Pogrund

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How Can Man Die Better

The Life of Robert Sobukwe

By: Benjamin Pogrund

On 21 March 1960, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe led a mass defiance of South Africa's pass laws. He urged blacks to go to the nearest police station and demand arrest. Police opened fire on a peaceful crowd in the township of Sharpeville and killed 69 people. The protest changed the course of South Africa's history. Afrikaner rule stiffened and black resistance went underground. International opinion hardened against apartheid. Sobukwe, leader of the Pan-Africanist Congress, was jailed for three years for incitement. At the end of his sentence the government, fearful of his power, rushed the so-called 'Sobukwe Clause' through Parliament, to keep him in prison without a trial. For the next six years, Sobukwe was kept in solitary confinement on Robben Island, the infamous apartheid prison near Cape Town. On his release, Sobukwe was banished to the town of Kimberley with very severe restrictions on his freedom. He died there nine years later in February 1978. This book is the story of this South African hero - the lonely prisoner on Robben Island. It is also the story of the friendship between Robert Sobukwe and Benjamin Pogrund whose joint experiences and debates chart the course of a tyrannous regime and the growth of black resistance.

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1868422658

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9781868422654

Robert Sobukwe - How can Man Die Better

(New Edition)

By: Benjamin Pogrund

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Drawing Fire

Drawing Fire

War of Words

War of Words

Robert Sobukwe - How can Man Die Better

Robert Sobukwe - How can Man Die Better

Drawing Fire

Drawing Fire

War of Words

War of Words

Unmaking the Presidency

Unmaking the Presidency

Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela

How Can Man Die Better

How Can Man Die Better

Robert Sobukwe - How can Man Die Better

Robert Sobukwe - How can Man Die Better

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