Zionists in Australia call it “anti-Semitic”. So do Zionists in Canada. Likewise in the US. Seven Jewish Children is a play about Jewish responsibility and culpability over Palestinian suffering. Here’s the script: No children appear in the play. The speakers are adults, the parents and if you like other relations of the children. The lines…
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Nationalist solidarity or nothing
Just another McCarthyist example of Canadian Zionists trying to silence alternative Jewish perspectives on the Middle East. Their fear of open debate grows by the day. First they came for the artwork, then the playwrights..
Gee, our boys drop bombs well
Fair and Accuracy in Reporting explains how most of the corporate media treats murders committed by the virtuous US military: Early reports of a massive U.S. attack on civilians in western Afghanistan last week (5/5/09) hewed to a familiar corporate media formula, stressing official U.S. denials and framing the scores of dead civilians as a…
Fear in the lobby
My latest column for New Matilda is about the Zionist lobby and its hopefully stunted plans for the Middle East: Public and private noises from the Obama administration have the Israel lobby spooked. Now they’re getting ready for the fight of their lives, writes Antony Loewenstein Last week in Washington 7000 delegates from America’s most…
Kicking them back to the stone ages
Survivors of Israel’s attack on Gaza have been forced to use mud to rebuild their homes.
The freedom to praise Christ
Life for Christians in Gaza is tough, not least from Hamas and Israeli bombardment: To be a Christian in Gaza these days requires discretion. When I approached a group of Christians lunching in a beachside hotel — they were identifiable because the women did not wear Islamic headscarves — they insisted that Hamas is tolerant…
If apartheid doesn’t move them…
Akiva Eldar writes in Haaretz that Israel may soon experience the reality of American pressure: Like a spoiled child, Israel is in no rush to willingly surrender real estate it holds and has settled for decades. (A survey by Prof. Daniel Bar-Tal and Dr. Eran Halperin found that 53 percent of Israelis consider the West…
This is rather like the Gaza Strip
The Sri Lankan regime are currently excelling themselves in perfecting the art of brutality. A Channel 4 News team was deported from the country yesterday. Here its Asia correspondent, Nick Paton Walsh, tells the Guardian what happened: When Sri Lanka’s defence secretary, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, rang he got quickly to the point. “Is this Channel 4?…
What would peace truly look like these days?
This could be a major development in the Middle East…or just one more bogus attempt to resolve a conflict that Israel has no interest to truly change: America is putting the final touches to a hugely ambitious peace plan for the Middle East, aimed at ending more than 60 years of conflict between Israel and…
We should be so proud of our liberation
Iraq remains in dire shape, despite what many in the media are saying. Take the ever-increasing stories of religiously-decreed rulings against homosexuals. One Iraqi human rights activist says: Iraqi militias are deploying an unprecedented new form of torture against homosexuals, which involves inserting a particularly strong adhesive into the anus (of the victim) and sealing…