The global BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) campaign against Israeli apartheid shows no sign of letting up. In fact, it’s only increasing as the political elite continues to ignore the state’s abuses. Here’s an interesting example from Sydney University’s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies: ABN 15 211 513 464 Dr Jake LynchAssociate Professor and…
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Israel may not be a democracy, J Street, but your words here are encouraging
Good on J Street for issuing this statement yesterday, in many ways pressuring other Jewish groups to follow suit. The deafening silence of most Zionist organisations speaks for itself; complicity: Today, J Street Executive Director Jeremy Ben-Ami issued the following statement: J Street is deeply troubled by legislative proposals under active consideration in Israel to…
Accuracy of the magazine elite
A day in the life of a massive lawsuit against the New Yorker magazine.
No spin can erase this
Following yesterday’s report in the Fairfax press about Israel’s attempt to make it illegal for Palestinians to remember their Nakba, these letters were published today. First, the Sydney Morning Herald: January 26, 1938, was the sesquicentenary of the arrival of the First Fleet. It was also the date of “a day of mourning and protest”…
One more step to isolation
The Arab Association for Human Rights releases a statement on Israel’s shameful attempt to ban Palestinian mourning for the Nakba: The Arab Association for Human Rights (HRA), while reaffirming its unequivocal rejection of these bills, considers the (Governmental) Ministerial Committee support of the amendment, as effective implementation of the agenda of the fascist right-wing parties…
Who says we’re better than autocracy?
How many more cases of Western-approved torture before we accept our complicity in the dark arts? The home secretary Jacqui Smith faces legal action over allegations that MI5 agents colluded in the torture of a British former civil servant by Bangladeshi intelligence officers. Lawyers for the British man, Jamil Rahman, are to file a damages…
Credibility isn’t exactly their middle name
The following great piece by Greg Barns in today’s Crikey tackles the sickening behaviour of the local media and political elite towards the Israeli state: Back in the days when the hammer and sickle flew proudly, the Soviet Union would spend big dollars on paying for journalists, academics and diplomats to see for themselves the…
What the hell happened to the Jewish mind?
Tony Karon in Rootless Cosmopolitan on the Israeli government’s seeming descent into madness: Haaretz’s Aluf Benn today reinforces the case I made earlier for Obama to keep Netanyahu on a tight leash concerning Iran. First, he reports, Netanyahu continues to talk up a frenzy of public expectation in Israel that leads only to military action.…
When outside pressure is the only way
Dr Amjad Barham is president of the Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees (PFUUPE) and here in the London Guardian argues why Palestinians are calling for a boycott of Israeli universities: It is well documented that Israeli academic institutions are deeply complicit in Israel’s colonial and racist policies against the Palestinian people.…