http://antonyloewenstein.com Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:03:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Documentary maker and writer Max Blumenthal - I saw him tonight in New York and he's an intriguing man who will be working on more projects related to apartheid Israel in the coming months and years - made this short film about Holocaust denier David Irving in 2008. The world ... http://antonyloewenstein.com/2009/07/04/jews-were-killed-and-thats-not-funny/ Israel's new Ambassador to the US Michael Oren reminds the world that Holocaust exploitation is alive and well in the Zionist mind: They [Iran] could accomplish in a matter of seconds what they deny Hitler did, and kill six million Jews, literally. http://antonyloewenstein.com/2009/07/04/1939-over-and-over-and-over-again/ Israeli Arab media personality Lucy Aharish on the growing outspokenness of 20 percent of the country's population: There is a new generation of Arabs who don't give a hoot what anyone thinks and will do everything they can to get into high positions. We have other things to get over besides ... http://antonyloewenstein.com/2009/07/04/dont-define-this-as-a-jewish-state/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's communications chief, Ron Dermer, tells the Melbourne Age that his country has a PR problem. Why can't the world just love us (and our hatred of Arabs)? It is not enough for Israel to say that it wants peace. You must also say that you are ... http://antonyloewenstein.com/2009/07/04/occupation-cant-be-spun/ Naomi Klein, a hero for backing a global boycott against Israel, said in Ramallah last week: There is a debate among Jews - I'm a Jew by the way. The debate boils down to the question: "Never again to everyone, or never again to us?... [Some Jews] even think we get ... http://antonyloewenstein.com/2009/07/04/a-good-definition-of-being-jewish/ The reality of the Iranian uprisings is still being written but this piece in the Nation is pretty good. What ordinary Iranians suffered is painfully recounted by an 18 year old man: "I was kept in a van till evening that day and then transferred to a solitary cell where I was ... http://antonyloewenstein.com/2009/07/04/iranian-rape-inc/ 'Jewish Ahmadinejad' blogger arrested. http://antonyloewenstein.com/2009/07/04/surely-headline-of-the-week/ I mentioned last week the case of imprisoned Greek journalist Iason Athanasiadis, currently being held in an Iranian jail on spurious grounds. Salon has published a feature about this fine man: Iason's detention is especially ironic, given his love of Iran and his understanding of its people and culture. His on-the-ground reporting ... http://antonyloewenstein.com/2009/07/04/the-importance-of-nuance/ Yesterday I met here in New York with the Mondoweiss boys. Plans are being hatched, but in the meantime, Iran came up: Surprise. Max Boot at Commentary wants Israel to bomb Iran now. So does John Bolton, speaking from the fever ward, the Washington Post op-ed page. The former ambassador says ... http://antonyloewenstein.com/2009/07/04/the-not-so-secret-hand-of-washington/ Mondoweiss writes: The other day I wrote that now that non-Zionists are finally gaining a voice in the discourse on Israel/Palestine, we have to bring our bat and ball-- positive ideas about how to solve things in the Middle East, not just a litany of Palestinian suffering. I'm planning to have ... http://antonyloewenstein.com/2009/07/04/why-would-anyone-who-can-get-along-with-arabs-want-to-exalt-the-two-state-solution/