Amira Hass on a people who one day will be seen as having suffered under the rule of a Zionist ruled dictatorship (funded and indulged by a global, Jewish Diaspora, including countless liberal Zionists, who remain silent or conflicted): The Palestinians are heroes, and that’s the only fact that’s relevant after the slight shock of…
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The Left must not ignore Sri Lanka
It is an issue that receives far too little attention, despite the government in Colombo committing egregious human rights abuses for years. Mass murderers run the country. Emanuel Stoakes, a colleague, writes the following for New Statesman: Earlier this week, a piece was published by the… Daily Telegraph… that contained the latest in a powerful body of…
The deadly risk of being a journalist in 2011
Committee to Protect Journalists offers a grim end of year report: Pakistan remained the deadliest country for the press for a second year, while across the world coverage of political unrest proved unusually dangerous in 2011, the Committee to Protect Journalists found in its year-end survey of journalist fatalities. CPJ’s analysis found notable shifts from…
Privatisation rules; can’t live with them and can’t kill them
Yet more misery in Australia caused by a privatised detention centre. Another report that will certainly not cause the Federal government to find a way to ditch Serco for its continually poor performance and standards (via the Australian): A NSW coroner has slammed the immigration department and two private contractors for failing in their duty…
Israeli Amira Hass on her colonial nation at work
Amira Hass: Israel & Palestine-Fear of the Future from Paul Hamel on Vimeo.
A letter to the Australian government in support of Julian Assange
I’m proud to sign this letter: This is an open letter to Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd and Attorney-General Nicola Roxon. It calls on the Australian government to take steps to ensure Julian Assange’s human rights are protected. It will be delivered on 19 December 2011, but we encourage members of the public to sign the…
United Nations should regulate people smuggling industry?
Australian human rights organisation Project Safecom releases a timely and important press release today that won’t receive the serious consideration it deserves: “Ultimately the United Nations has no choice but to regulate the international informal travel broker industry in order to minimise deaths at sea and in order to separate fly-by-night opportunistic profiteers from the…
When Zionist nationalists jump into bed with the far Right
This is an area covered throughout the recently released book, On Utoya, and my contribution covers how the Norway killer Anders Breivik rather loved Israel in his manifesto. This piece in American Jewish newspaper Forward highlights this disturbingly growing alliance between hardline Zionism and neo-Nazis (yes, you read that right): Economic upheaval and strife in…