Israel’s Deputy Prime Minister Eli Yishai: Gays and lesbians are sick people. It’s definitely a disease. They haven’t invented a cure for it yet, but I hope they will.
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Amira Hass recognised for her tenacity and truth-telling
The Guardian editorialises today on the remarkable Israeli journalist Amira Hass: Only Amira Hass could have received the International Women’s Media Foundation lifetime achievement award by saying her life as a journalist had been a failure. By her standards maybe, but then she sets them high. If her aim is to stop successive Israeli governments…
Arabs are not loved, they’re treated with contempt
How can Zionists in Israel expect Arabs to declare their love for a Jewish state when this is taking place? Civil rights groups in Israel have expressed outrage at the announcement last week that a special undercover unit of the police has been infiltrating and collecting intelligence on Israel’s Palestinian Arab minority by disguising its…
Why must we treat Palestinians as humans?
Racism, mainstream Israeli-style: “When Israel sends a sophisticated satellite into space, the Arabs come up with a new kind of hummus,” Dr. Dan Schueftan told students during his course on Israel’s security perspective in the diplomacy and security program for senior managers at Tel Aviv University. An essay that was published in last Friday’s weekend…
Perhaps tea can be used to kill Jews
Collective punishment, pure and simple: Israel has decided to allow coffee and tea into the besieged Gaza Strip starting on Thursday, a Palestinian official said. Nasser As-Sarraj, undersecretary of the Ministry of National Economy said that Palestinian authorities received word from Israel of the change in policy, which apparently removes coffee and tea from a…
Israeli should not help Arabs in the territories
The case of Israeli activist Ezra Nawi is now decided; he will go to jail simply for defending Palestinians in the West Bank: The Jerusalem Magistrate Court on Wednesday sentenced left-wing activist Ezra Nawi to one month in prison, after convicting him of assaulting police officers during the 2007 evacuation of illegal Palestinian caravans in…
Introducing…Miss Aceh
My following article in New Matilda is about the Indonesian province of Aceh: Despite recently implementing sharia law — including the stoning of adulterers and homosexuals — Aceh does not fit the stereotype of an Islamic state, finds Antony Loewenstein Muslim extremists in Aceh were outraged when a young woman from the province, Qori Sandioriva,…
Israel wants to be special (and kill unarmed civilians)
Here’s the message from Israel. Other nations kill civilians, why can’t we? This is what Israel has become: Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz on Sunday accused the United Nations Human Rights Council of anti-Semitism, after the UN body endorsed a damning report on Israel’s winter Gaza offensive. “This is an anti-Semitic attempt to decide that what…
Australia damns refugees because they’re not white
Australian journalist Laurie Oakes on our government’s stance towards Tamil refugees. We learn nothing from history except that bashing aslyum seekers is allegedly popular with the electorate. The shame: We’ve… heard Kevin Rudd promising tough action to stop asylum seekers coming to Australia by boat. We’ve heard him condemn people smugglers as vermin. What we…
Sri Lanka can’t kill civilians and get away with it
A day will come, and soon, when Israel will also face these criticisms and pay a price for abusing human rights: A European Union probe has found Sri Lanka in breach of international human rights laws, meaning the South Asian country is likely to lose concessions worth over $100 million for its top exports to…