Barak Ravid, Haaretz: Every year, in almost every country, government reports detailing statistics and demographics of the country’s citizens are published during the last week of December. The reports detail how many babies were born that year and how many people died. Some of those reports are turned into semi-comic articles on the back page…
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Evidence from the horse’s mouth; Australian immigration loves to punish most vulnerable
Late last year I visited Christmas Island and Curtin detention centre in the Kimberley to investigate the role of British multinational Serco in controlling and managing asylum seekers. The picture was grim; isolation and long spells inside maximum security prisons are how we treat refugees fleeing persecution. This front page today in today’s Australian newspaper…
Jewish extremists, indulged by the Jewish state, think they’re in Nazi Germany
Gender apartheid is growing in Israel (but not, as per Leslie Cannold in today’s Sydney Morning Herald, just between Jews but far more profoundly against Arabs, something she conveniently ignores). This is what Zionism has created: Israeli leaders criticized a haredi Orthodox demonstration in which protesters wore yellow stars to indicate that they are being…
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:
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…