Our Voice – Refugee Youth Magazine is a new initiative recently launched in the West Bank as a way to show the diversity of occupied Palestinian voices: Through this project Laje’oon Center (popularly known as Lajee Center) will establish a solid network of active Youth and Cultural Centres from 6 refugee camps, spread across 6…
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A message that keeps on escaping
Israeli/American activist Jeff Halper left Australia this morning after a highly successful two-week visit, speaking to a host of media, upsetting the bigoted Zionist establishment and teaching thousands of Australians about the reality of Israeli apartheid. I was proud to be a part of his visit, via Independent Australian Jewish Voices. Halper told New Matilda…
Death is life
It’s not just Zionist hacks who lie about civilian casualties in war. Clearly the Sri Lankan government is taking lessons from the master: For the foreign correspondent, everything in Sri Lanka begins and ends with the armed forces: where one can travel; what one can film; even to whom one can speak. And dealing with…
We’ve got to keep on talking
Lebanese Chess is a fascinating blog written by a Lebanese Australian. His recent post is titled, “A week of speeches“: Khatami, Halper and Loewenstein … three public speakers at Australia’s main political university, the Australian National University (ANU), in a week. I went to see them all, and nothing much out of the three surprised…
The world knows
The shocking face of Palestinian fear in Gaza: Some fanatic Zionists claim that Israel only acts morally, especially in Gaza – and calls criticisms of the Jewish state “blood libels” – but the reality under occupation is very different.
Is it really only about us?
Israel paid high price for little achievements in Gaza writes a columnist in Haaretz. But what about the Palestinians? The UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) in Gaza, local Palestinian NGOs and mental health professionals are reporting increased incidents of domestic violence and sexual assault against women in Gaza since the beginning of 2009. An…
Don’t give in to the bully
Justice should be expected: The parents of an American peace activist publicly appealed yesterday for a full investigation into how their son was shot in the head with a high velocity tear gas canister by Israeli security forces. And the response from the Israelis? A woman and journalist were among those beaten by Israeli troops…
Some Jews like debate, while others, well…
The following letters appear in this week’s Australian Jewish News: FORUM FOR DEBATE I WAS dismayed that The AJN publisher decided that his readership was not entitled to (or capable of) making up its own mind as to events it wishes to attend (AJN 13/03). The AJN, or any other newspaper, should be a forum…
When human rights for all is deemed impossible
The Zionist establishment is fearful of the ever-growing campaign against Israeli human rights abuses: …The facts on the Middle East ground have put Israel’s advocates in a nearly untenable position. As Yossi Klein Halevi has often pointed out, both the settlement enterprise and the Oslo effort failed to achieve their fantastic goals. Now Hamas has…
From one stumble to another
Yossi Alpher, former adviser to Ehud Barak, recalls a conversation with outgoing prime minister Ehud Olmert: I recall asking Olmert at a closed meeting about a year ago what his strategy was for dealing with Hamas in Gaza. His answer: well, now and again we close the crossings, we retaliate for rockets fired at us,…