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Omar Barghouti on BDS and holding Israel to account
Compelling interview with leading Palestinian activist Omar Barghouti speaking this month in America with Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman:
Judith Butler on the importance and eloquence of BDS
Following a hysterical campaign by Zionists and wannabe censors against an event about BDS at Brooklyn University last week with Omar Barghouti and Judith Butler, it went off without a hitch but received heaps of coverage. Thanks Israel supporters. It’s worth reading Butler’s entire speech but here’s an extract: The Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement…
Setting the right priorities over Wikileaks support
As a long-time supporter of Wikileaks, since its inception in 2006, its importance is often overlooked by the personal issues surrounding its founder Julian Assange. It’s a complex legal and ethical battle and his fear of US arrest and imprisonment is real and justified. Trusting any authorities is unwise considering the record of governments and…
The necessary logic behind boycotting Israel
Phil Weiss on Mondoweiss articulates what many of us are feeling, as human beings and Jews: I am for boycott because I have many times observed conditions under military occupation in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and Gaza that reflect apartheid policies effected by Israel. I have seen ethnic cleansing, village demolitions, collective punishment,…
Obama’s drone policy so broad as to include every table tennis player in Michigan
I’m not exaggerating that much (via NBC): A confidential Justice Department memo concludes that the U.S. government can order the killing of American citizens if they are believed to be “senior operational leaders”… of al-Qaida or “an associated force” — even if there is no… intelligence… indicating they… are… engaged in an active plot to attack the U.S. The… 16-page memo,…
How #ZeroDarkThirty seduces viewers into supporting torture
Days after seeing Zero Dark Thirty I’m still thinking about its normalisation of torture. Rolling Stone’s great writer Matt Taibbi concurs in a stinging piece: Back to the “enhanced interrogation” in the first scene: conducted by chameleonic Australian actor Jason Clarke’s “Dan” character while Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain’s Maya character looks on, it’s shocking, horrific,…
Australia reinforces vulture capitalism on compliant Pacific island
Australia, like so many other Western countries, increasingly believes it should outsource government services to private companies under the guise of “efficiency”. It’s nothing of the sort and merely removes a key level of accountability. In my forthcoming book on disaster capitalism I examine the ways in which multinationals are making a fortune from asylum…