There are growing signs of collusion between the Zionist lobby, fundamentalists who want the government to tell us what to hear and see and politicians such as Joe Lieberman who never saw a war against Muslims they didn’t like. Now this. It must be resisted: Twitter has been threatened with legal action by an Israeli…
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Keep those Ayrabs away from Australia, they look funny
The level of “conservative” debate in Murdoch’s Australian yesterday, in a piece by Hal G.P. Colebatch. I’m sure he’s seen heaps of Muslims on the TV and knows many of them intimately: Middle Eastern migrants, except in exceptional circumstances, appear to be making little attempt to assimilate and are bringing in polygamy, honour killings and…
When far Right hearts Zionism, sensible folk run (yet so many Jews are smiling)
There’s nothing like hating Muslims to get the juices flowing of the nationalist Right and some Zionist organisations. Islam is the enemy and must be obliterated (that’s their view, not mine). It’s an issue covered in the book On Utoya in which I contributed this year and deserves far more scrutiny. This kind of alliance…
Syria may be convulsing but foreign intervention must be avoided
The situation in Syria continues to descend into a civil war-like situation, according to people on the ground. This interesting report, by BBC journalist Paul Wood, offers a disturbing insight into the Assad regime’s desperation and confusion since the beginning of the revolution: Qutaiba, a 22-year-old engineering student, had never been arrested before Syrian security…
Shocking Nakba testimony by former Israeli Palmach fighter
The cool, calm exterior of how Jews ethnically cleansed Palestinians to form the state of Israel:
Become a reporter and insider (if you think that’s your role)
Salon’s Glenn Greenwald, one of America’s finest commentators and reporters, on what journalism has mostly become today; individuals who love power and want to be close to it. Not all of us sell that lie:
Memo to blind Zionists; never-ending occupation is having a PR problem
Interesting piece in Salon that will be familiar to many of us but the key theme is that debate in the US over Israel/Palestine is shifting and the Israeli Foreign Ministry can’t dictate as much as before: Criticism of the special relationship, once rare, is now frequent.… Newsweek/Daily Beast’s Andrew Sullivan … has become a… regularsource… of attacks on…
Rejecting intimidation, justice for Palestine must progress in 2012
Leading Israeli historian Ilan Pappe offers some thoughts for the coming year: If we had a wish list for 2012 as Palestinians and friends of Palestine, one of the top items ought to be our hope that we can translate the dramatic shift in recent years in world public opinion into political action against Israeli…