ideological criminal

Tanya Reinhart has apparently died of a stroke in New York. Reinhart was one of the few critics of Israel that I felt could consistently be relied upon for sharp, correct, and just analysis of Israeli policy and advocacy for Palestinian rights. So many other intellectual big hitters have let me down, but not her. Her books, Israel/Palestine: How To End the War of 1948 and The Road Map to Nowhere: Israel/Palestine Since 2003, have been listed on ideological criminal’s very short “Recommended Books” list since the beginning. Israel/Palestine in particular is perhaps the best account of the conflict and a must read for anyone interested in the context of the occupation and a way forward to a just peace. Concise, unflinching, demystifying and well-written, I can’t recommend it highly enough. Her voice will be missed. The world needs far more of her intellectual integrity and sense of justice.

Noam Chomsky, her PhD adviser, has written a eulogy which appeared on CounterPunch today, and Democracy Now! played excerpts from a 2004 interview and a February 2007 talk given as part of the Israel Apartheid Week.