While the Obama administration wonders how to pressure Israel to cease settlement building – how about withdrawing the billions of dollars in annual aid? – concerned citizens are taking a stand: Britain’s main academic union voted overwhelmingly to boycott Israeli universities and colleges. The University and College Union passed the boycott resolution at its annual…
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We treat you with contempt
Sri Lanka’s foreign minister, Rohitha Bogollagama, has a message to the world: Sri Lanka will no doubt enter the annals of history as a classic textbook example of a nation that successfully prevailed over the scourge of terrorism, while tenaciously upholding the cherished values of democracy and human rights. He sounds as deluded as an…
How many Jews oppose this?
What kind of Judaism is this? A perversion: Jewish settlers threw stones at a Palestinian car in the West Bank today, causing injuries, Palestinian medics and Israeli police said. Medics said two men were taken to hospital, one with a fractured skull, and four others were treated for minor injuries after the early morning incident…
Talking is no longer enough
The head of Sydney University’s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies Jake Lynch explains why it’s appropriate to academically boycott Israel: Israeli academics are the source of a great deal of significant criticism of, and opposition to, Israel’s policies…so there is no suggestion that individual contacts should now cease. Discussions about peace journalism have been…
When having an enemy is far more important
Axil of Evil, indeed: Iran supplied U.S. diplomats with the location of Taliban military units in Afghanistan after the initial bombing campaign… in the fall of 2001… failed to rout them, according to former officials in the George W. Bush administration.
Bomb and bomb some more
In the mind of Canada’s neo-con paper The National Post, it’s perfectly acceptable to bomb civilians in the name of the “war on terror” against “terrorists”. It’s curious that the paper positively compares Israel’s war against Gaza and Sri Lanka’s onslaught against the Tamils. That two such rogue nations should get together isn’t surprising; they…
Journalists should take greater responsibility
The following article by Pip Hinman appears in the Green Left Weekly: More than 120 people packed into a seminar “Media complicity: reporting Gaza and Sri Lanka 2009” on May 27 at the University of Technology. The meeting was hosted by Wendy Bacon from the Centre for Independent Journalism and co-sponsored by the Centre for…