The kind of editorial we can expect to see a lot more of in the coming months and years: Israel has not only “punished” the Palestinians for seeking and achieving an upgrade of UN status, it has also slapped the face of the UK and of Germany, both of whom withheld support for the Palestinians…
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SBS News Radio on illegal Israeli colonies in the West Bank and East Jerusalem
Following last week’s UN vote over Palestine, the Israeli government announced the building of yet more colonies. I was asked on the weekend by SBS News about what this means for the “peace process” (hint: it died years ago):
“The Israeli political class is a full-blown train wreck”
The New Yorker editor David Remnick attends a major Zionist event in America and shows, intentionally or not, that the American and Israeli political classes are insular fools who don’t care a hoot about Arabs (so what’s new, right?): Hillary Clinton is running for President. And the Israeli political class is a full-blown train wreck.…
Baby steps towards neutering the fundamentalist Zionist lobby in Australia
Interesting piece in the Australian Financial Review that outlines the decreasing power of the Israel lobby to bully its way into the corridors of power. As importantly, its belief in apartheid in the West Bank shows that they speak for nobody but the Israeli government. They will never be independent players and should be ignored…
Ireland takes small but necessary step against Israeli colonies
Via Haaretz: Ireland is planning to utilize its upcoming term as President of the Council of the European Union, which begins on January 1 2013, to advance efforts to achieve a joint decision between all 27 member states to ban products from West Bank Settlements. The Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Eamon Gilmore,… revealed…
Why Palestinians call for boycotts against Israel
Abir Kopty in The National: The Palestinian cause is not a charity. The international community, however, has often failed to grasp the nature of the struggle for justice, preferring to channel funds to Palestinian “development” projects to compensate for the lack of will to put serious pressure on Israel. That mentality has been challenged by…
Memo to Europe; Israeli occupation won’t end with a few harsh words
Amira Hass in Haaretz: Compared to the value of the security technology Israel sells overseas, the value of European imports from the settlements are mere pocket money. Israel’s economy won’t be hurt even if European governments adopt the measures proposed by a group of nongovernmental organizations in order to shrink trade with the settlements and…
Zionist colonies need to be excluded from polite society
Much stronger boycotts are required to protest apartheid Israel – the two state “solution” was killed years ago -… but this is all encouraging: Warning European shoppers that supermarket shelf grapes and dates tagged “made in Israel” are probably produced in “illegal” settlements, NGOs on Tuesday demanded an EU-wide ban on imports of settlement goods. In…
“After Zionism” reviewed in Ceasefire
The following review of After Zionism by Hilary Aked appears in Ceasefire magazine: The editors of this collection of essays – a Palestinian refugee born in Gaza and now based in the USA and an Australian anti-Zionist Jew – say they collaborated on this book “because of a shared belief that Jews and Palestinians are…
Breaking the Silence’s Avner Gvaryahu speaks in Australia over Israeli occupation
Currently on a tour discussing his group’s work and the book, Our Harsh Logic, he’s been interviewed by Green Left TV: