My following article is published today on the popular US website Mondoweiss: The recent Salute to Israel parade in New York was symptomatic of a mainstream Jewish community desperate to appear normal, relaxed yet determined. Sunday’s “Tel Aviv beach in Central Park” was another day in the life of Israeli propaganda, estimated to have cost…
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This anger can only lead one way
Four Palestinians living in Israel and Palestine discuss the recent Durban II conference. They’re understandably angry. Here’s one, Dr Haidar Eid, from Gaza: Israel is the only state in the ’modern’ world in which citizenship and nationality are two separate, independent concepts. Israel is NOT the state of its citizens, but the state of the…
Room for debate in the Islamic Republic
Rasool Nafisi, who teaches the sociology of development and Middle Eastern studies at Strayer University, reminds us that some Iranian journalists were appalled at President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent speech at Durban II: Some Iranian journalists and political activists questioned Ahmadinezhad’s speech. They felt Iran was humiliated by the event. A reporter asked Rahim-Moshaei, the president’s…
Take me to your Zionist paradise
Why, asks this poor Jewish reader in the Australian Jewish News this week, is the Melbourne Age so riddled with anti-Semitism and Israel-hatred? And the Jewish establishment wonders why they’re often viewed as paranoid, insecure and seemingly desperate to live in a country where Israel is viewed as the utopia that it clearly is: Hardly…
Is Zionism really racism?
During last week’s Durban II conference, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave a speech that some in the West regarded as outrageous and others as merely representing public opinion in much of the world (personally speaking, I think it harmed the Palestinian cause no end). This clip from the BBC is startling for its honest questioning…
When is a hate-fest not a hate-fest
It is worth quoting in full the following statement by Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, at the end of the Durban II conference in Geneva: It was very difficult. I had to face a widespread, and highly organized campaign of disinformation. Many people, including Ministers with whom I spoke, told me…
What, bashing Arabs isn’t decent behaviour?
Michael Brull, a blogger with Independent Australian Jewish Voices, continues his increasingly public and necessary battles with Zionist apologists. First up, former head of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, David Knoll, who has a piece in today’s Sydney Morning Herald, showing his supposed concern about racism. Except, as Brull notes: Look Mr Knoll. You…
Holding onto confused thoughts
What do Australian bloggers think of the Durban II conference in Geneva?
Adolf is dead, surely?
Murdoch’s Australian publishes two letters today that address the Durban II conference. Yes, they’re predictable…and mention Hitler: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spews vitriol that could have easily been written by Adolf Hitler himself. How ironic that this should occur at such a morally bankrupt conference organised by some of the worst human rights abusers this world has…
What on earth have we become?
Yet another case of Zionist fanaticism on show at the Durban II conference (thanks to actor Jon Voight, father of Angelina Jolie). Over to you Muzzlewatch: He started off… his talk at the anti-semitism Dershowitz hate-fest panel with an ode to the Jews. He’s cultish in his fetishization of the Jews. He kicked off… with…