My co-editor on the new book, After Zionism, Ahmed Moor, writes in The National: I recently had the opportunity to participate in a panel discussion on Palestine and Israel at the Frontline Club in London. About a hundred people packed into the intimately sized meeting hall to join in the conversation about the one-state solution.…
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Palestine Chronicle tackles “After Zionism”
The following piece, by Karen Dabrowska, appears in the Palestine Chronicle: Time has run out for the two-state solution because of the unending and permanent Jewish colonization of Palestinian land. That is the conclusion of Antony Loewenstein and Ahmed Moor the authors of After Zionism, which brings together some of the world’s leading thinkers on…
On tour: imagining “After Zionism” in Israel and Palestine
My following essay appears on the American website Mondoweiss today: The drive from East Jerusalem to Tel Aviv takes around one hour. It’s a stinking hot day and I’ve come from Ramallah in mid-August 2012. Despite flying into Ben Gurion airport in the morning I am stopped and initially refused entry by the Israeli border…
South Africa applies law against Israel and Jewish state complains
Here’s hoping many other countries follow this lead: Israel… is condemning a new South African regulation requiring that products made in West Bank settlements must be labeled as coming from “occupied… Palestinian… territory.” A Foreign Ministry spokesman, Yigal Palmor, called the requirement “totally unacceptable.” He said, “What is totally unacceptable is the use of tools which, by essence,…
London’s Frontline Club discussion about “After Zionism” and the one-state solution
This week I appeared at London’s famous Frontline Club talking about my new book with Ahmed Moor, After Zionism. It was a sell-out with a refreshingly young audience (photos here). The other speakers were Palestinian Ghada Karmi and Israeli Dimi Reider. It was a 90 minute event that signalled the growing mainstream acceptance of only…
Overland Journal tackles “After Zionism”
The following review of After Zionism by Jeff Sparrow appears in Overland Journal: After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine Antony Loewenstein and Ahmed Moor (eds) SAQI In the media, particularly in Australia, the ”˜two-state solution’ to the Palestine/Israel crisis – that is to say, the proposition that peace depends upon the creation of…
Australian Zionist lobby keen to brain-wash young student leaders in Israel
My following investigation appears in New Matilda today: An all-expenses paid trip to Israel? Why not? The Zionist lobby has been taking student leaders to Israel for ‘political education’. Antony Loewenstein reports on the effort to recruit young allies Zionist lobby trips to Israel, taking politicians, journalists and trade union leaders, have been occurring from…
Read this to understand the reality of Israel’s “Jewish and democratic” occupation
A striking piece, in Yediot Ahronoth, translated for Peace Now: It is doubtful if this was the solution envisioned by the leaders of the social protest when they went out to demonstrate over the cost of housing in Israel.… But the impossible real estate prices and the unfreezing of land over the Green Line have…
“Better Place” reducing fossil fuel use while exploiting occupied Palestinian land
Following yesterday’s open letter to the Australian Greens about not working with Israeli company Better Place or other Israeli firms that talk green but in reality are complicit in the occupation, I just found this recent piece on the Green Car Reports website. The writer clearly states that the company is operating in the occupied…