When the power of the crowd can work

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Of course you can cease construction

Totally freezing colonies in the West Bank is doable. The political will simply isn’t there: The report in Haaretz on Tuesday whereby the U.S. administration has become convinced that it would be impossible to freeze West Bank settlement construction altogether came as a shock to Israeli peace activists. The activists quickly handed over to the…

Blogger forced to reveal his identity

I was interviewed before on ABC Radio’s World Today program: PETER CAVE: To some people the appeal of the internet is getting information out in the public domain without revealing where it’s come from. But that could change after a court in the United Kingdom ruled that bloggers have no right to anonymity. A policeman…

Is this really the message Zionists want to get out?

The documentary A Case for Israel looks like a sad case of desperation. Netanyahu, Barak, Glick, Dershowitz, Sharansky. The same voices, no mention of the occupation and demonisation of the Palestinians. This kind of propaganda simply no longer works:

They blog what they see in front of their eyes

Harvard University’s Berkman Centre (where I gave a presentation last year on my book, The Blogging Revolution) have released a new report mapping the Arabic blogosphere. Some key findings that suggest Barack Obama will need to match his pretty words with far more than rhetoric: The one political issue that clearly concerns bloggers across the…

“Send pictures to the nigger in the United States”

Neve Gordon writes in the Nation about the uber-seriousness of the Israeli state towards illegal settlers: Last week, the government sent troops to dismantle two outposts. The television networks were invited to cover the event, and that evening viewers watched how a group of settlers struggled against the most powerful military in the Middle East.…

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