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Showing all posts in June 2019
Lining up to die
Just when the Middle East conflict couldn’t get any more heated: After decades of bitter conflict and the loss of thousands of innocent lives, Israeli and Palestinian forces clashed once again this week, with each side laying claim to a five-mile stretch of desperately needed cemetery space. Fighting over the disputed territory, which is located…
If only we knew
From the New York Times, December 21, 1924: Hitler Tamed by Prison: Released on Parole, He Is Expected to Return to Austria.
The friends who help
Jeremy Scahill, The Guardian, July 23: It seems that executives from Blackwater Worldwide, the Bush administration’s favourite hired guns in Iraq and Afghanistan, are threatening to pack up their M4 assault rifles, CS gas and Little Bird helicopters and go back to the great dismal swamp of North Carolina whence they came. Or at least…
Nail everything down
What next, the weather channel being sponsored by the nuclear industry? Oh wait: The tentacle-like growth of clandestine advertising in American TV shows in the form of product placement has taken another controversial step with the introduction of McDonald’s products into regional news programmes. Several TV outlets have begun to sell the fast-food giant the…
Don’t dare slam the holy Jewish state
Following my lead letter in yesterday’s Sydney Morning Herald, the following letters appear in response today (under the headline, “Define reasonable, Mr Loewenstein”): Antony Loewenstein says “not many Jews” agree that the 2001 UN conference against racism in Durban was an anti-Semitic hatefest (Letters, July 23). I was a delegate and I don’t remember Mr…
Too much touching allowed
Gender politics in Egypt has a long way to go: Nearly two-thirds of Egyptian men admit to having sexually harassed women in the most populous Arab country, and a majority say women themselves are to blame for their maltreatment. One female blogger, Cairo My Love, has a few things to say about this shocking statistic.
How not to help the Chinese, part 9
My following article appears in the Amnesty International Australia’s Uncensor campaign about human rights in China: Sport isn’t the only thing on the minds of multinationals in Beijing, writes Antony Loewenstein Human rights issues? What human rights issues? With only a few weeks until the start of the Beijing Games, this seems to be the…
Israel the aggressor must accept reasonable and unbiased criticism
My following piece is the lead letter in today’s Sydney Morning Herald: Supporters of Israel write as though the Jewish state is isolated and reviled around the world for no other reason than irrational anti-Semitism. Nothing could be further from the truth. [Professor at York University, Toronto and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute]…