A Time to Speak Out, a recently released book about the rise of Jewish dissent, in which I have a chapter, is reviewed by Interface magazine, “an open-access, multilingual journal of social movement research by and for activists and academics”: This article explores the strengths and limitations of movement intellectuals’ theorisation of their movement and…
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It will happen, eventually
Robert Baer, a former top Central Intelligence Agency operative, offers some advice to the hapless Israelis and Americans: Hamas is an idea. Hamas is not an organisation. Hamas is an idea, and unless the Israelis go in and force 1.5 million people into Egypt, they will never subdue Gaza. They can go in and they…
The perilous life of being a journalist
Modern Russia, in all its lawlessness: Alexander Lebedev, the Russian billionaire who co-owns [newspaper] Novaya Gazeta, says the situation is so dreadful that the paper’s staff should now carry guns. Lebedev, the new proprietor of the Evening Standard, also suggested journalists should be taught how to shoot. The authorities are unlikely to grant his request,…
Anti-Semitic remarks stop Palestine conference
The following article, by Josephine Tovey, appears today in the Sydney Morning Herald online: A conference on justice for Palestine due to be held tomorrow at State Parliament has been called off after several high-profile speakers withdrew from the event, citing revelations the convener had made anti-Semitic remarks. Maqsood Alshams, who had organised the conference…
Get ready for some predictable terrorism
Government efforts to prevent the radicalisation of British Muslims have been set back by Israel’s assault on Gaza, the security and counter-terrorism minister, Lord West of Spithead, announced yesterday. In an outspoken assessment of the terror risk facing Britain, Gordon Brown’s security adviser was scathing about the assertion, made by Tony Blair when prime minister,…
Roll up for a fun show
War criminals, you have a future…in the entertainment business, convincing punters that your previous acts of endorsing mass killing was actually just a little bit of harmless fun: Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has signed with the William Morris Agency, which describes itself as a “diversified talent and literary agency,” with “clients in all…
Gaza: where to from here?
My latest column for New Matilda is about the likely future for Gaza and the conflict: Now that the shelling is (mostly) over, it’s clear that Israel has achieved the exact opposite of its objectives in Gaza, writes Antony Loewenstein Palestinians are slowly emerging from the rubble of their lives in Gaza. Credible stories have…
Are they all that different?
I wonder why: The operation in Gaza put an end to the European taboo on equating Jews to Nazis. That message was one of the conclusions of the first international panel discussion on anti-Semitism following the Gaza invasion, which was held in Jerusalem Monday on the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Speaking at the…