American investigator reporter Seymour Hersh drops a bombshell. America, land of the sanctioned killers? “Right now, today, there was a story in the New York Times that if you read it carefully mentioned something known as the Joint Special Operations Command — JSOC it’s called. It is a special wing of our special operations community…
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March IAJV newsletter
The following email was sent today to signatories of Independent Australian Jewish Voices: Dear friends, The war in Gaza may be over, but the devastated Strip remains in dire shape. Our recent Gaza media statement generated global attention and highlighted the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, joining worldwide condemnation of Israeli aggression. Full media coverage of…
The peace activist the Jewish News rejects
My following piece appears on Crikey today: Dr Jeff Halper is an American born, Israeli-based professor of anthropology, author and co-founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD). This 2006 Nobel Peace Prize nominated group resists the Israeli policy of demolishing Palestinian homes in the illegally occupied West Bank. It uses non-violence and civil…
The weak Jewish nation
The Israel Lobby co-author Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Policy blog: …I cannot help but be struck by how little confidence Freeman’s critics seem to have in Israel itself. Apparently they believe that a country that recently celebrated its 60th birthday, whose per capita income ranks 29th in the world, that has several hundred nuclear weapons,…
A refreshing Jewish voice
Israeli/American peace activist Jeff Halper – currently in Australia on a national tour – appeared tonight on leading ABC Radio’s current affairs program, PM: MARK COLVIN: Middle East peace negotiations are in something of a holding pattern at the moment, as Binyamin Netanyahu tries to form a government in Israel, and Barack Obama and Hillary…
Selling death with a painful tune
Ouch: Let’s say you’re a defense-company marketing executive. And you want to make a splash at the Indian defense ministry’s annual air show. Do you: (a) buy expensive gifts for New Delhi’s generals; (b) treat the press to Kingfishers and samosas; (c) produce a Bollywood-esque video featuring bare-midriff girls, flower-draped missiles, and the catch phrase…
How to care for human rights
Dr Jeff Halper is a leading Jewish Israeli/American peace activist and founder of Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. He in currently in Australia on a national tour, sponsored by Australians for Palestine and a host of other groups, including Independent Australian Jewish Voices. Halper was interviewed this morning on Radio National’s Breakfast program. His eloquence,…
Getting them in the dock
One day soon, and who knows when, Israeli war crimes will be treated as such. In the meantime: The Russell Tribunal on Palestine was launched today at a press conference chaired by Stéphane Hessel, Ambassador of France. The initiators, Ken Coates, Chairman of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, Leila Shahid, General Delegate of Palestine to…
The lobby is far from dead and buried
The Zionist lobby strikes again: In a dramatic conclusion to a building political fight over his selection as the U.S. intelligence community’s top analyst, former U.S. Ambassador Charles “Chas” W. Freeman, Jr., asked that the appointment not proceed, the director of national intelligence, Dennis C. Blair, announced Tuesday. Freeman, 66, is a widely experienced former…