How the US-backed Palestinian Authority deals with dissent in the West Bank, silencing and arresting imams and activists. The makings of a police state, kindly brought to the Palestinians by the international community.
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Zinn dies, NPR abuses his memory
Following the death of Howard Zinn, America’s public broadcaster, National Public Radio (NPR) featured the following (via FAIR): When progressive historian Howard Zinn died on January 27,… NPR’s… All Things Considered… (1/28/10) marked his passing with something you don’t often see in an obituary: a rebuttal. After quoting Noam Chomsky and Julian Bond,… NPR’s Allison Keyes turned to far-right…
Israel only sees goodness in itself
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: They [the international community] know that no country has faced the kind of terror rocket attacks that we have faced, except for Britain during World War II, and that our response was the only sensible response. Operation Cast Lead was a more proportionate response than was meted out by Great…
Time for new Palestinian elections but who really cares?
Internal Palestinian politics are mired in mistrust, hatred and fighting (or colluding) with Israeli occupation. This “milestone” has been barely recognised: Four years after Hamas won an upset victory in the 2006 Palestinian legislative elections, prompting swift international sanctions and a Western-led diplomatic boycott, the mandate for the parliament it dominated officially expired on Monday.…
Zinn on the universality of human rights (Zionism not excepted)
The death of Howard Zinn has reminded us of his powerful and incendiary words. Take this essay (reproduced in full below) from 1999, titled, “A larger consciousness“: Some years ago, when I was teaching at Boston University, I was asked by a Jewish group to give a talk on the Holocaust. I spoke that evening,…
Emancipation: How liberating Europe’s Jews from the ghetto led to revolution and renaissance
I’m honoured to be in conversation with author and journalist Michael Goldfarb on his upcoming Australian tour at Sydney bookstore Gleebooks on 17 February at 6.30pm: For almost 500 years, the Jews of Europe were kept apart, confined to ghettos or tiny villages in the countryside. Then, in one extraordinary moment in the French Revolution,…
Why the Israeli left may rise again over East Jerusalem (but don’t count on it)
Avraham Burg, former speaker of the Knesset, is interviewed in Israel over the growing social unrest and ethnic cleansing in East Jerusalem: The former speaker of the Knesset, Avrum Burg, on Galie Tzahal’s (IDF Radio), morning show, Ma Boer, with Razi Bakai, 24 January, 2010: Anchor Razi Barkai: Good morning, former Knesset Speaker Avraham (Avrum)…
Reading the Iranian tea-leaves (but not from neo-cons)
Many fear that this year will see aggressive action against Iran and “regime change” under the guise of supposedly freeing the Iranian people (witness Robert Kagan in the Washington Post this week making this very point; yet another man determined to install a friendly puppet in Tehran. A neo-conservative who doesn’t care one iota for…
Israel’s image raised after Haiti, say Zionist leaders
Benjamin Netanyahu welcomes the IDF rescue crew back from Haiti: You have raised human spirits and elevated the name of the State of Israel and the Israel Defense Forces. As many plot against us, distort and muddy our names, you have shown the real IDF.