Zvi Bar’el writes in Haaretz on Israel’s sublime delusion and victim mentality: Goldstone was born in June 1967. I am not referring to the judge from South Africa, but to his report, or more precisely, the notion that Israel needs a synonym for the soul-searching it must carry out after 42 years of occupation. In…
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Discussions and clarifications from J Street
J Street head Jeremy Ben-Ami talks to The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg and clarifies that his group is desperate to remain in the centre. The key problem with this position, of course, is that such “centrist” negotiations have taken place for years and the power imbalance is largely ignored. The Palestinians are under occupation. This won’t…
The Goldstone story will not die
South African judge Richard Goldstone’s damning report of the recent Gaza war continues its public hearing (highlighting the complete lack of interest or will on the part of Israel, or Hamas, to investigate their own crimes): The Financial Times, with a history of real balance in the Middle East (or at least an ability to…
Amira Hass recognised for her tenacity and truth-telling
The Guardian editorialises today on the remarkable Israeli journalist Amira Hass: Only Amira Hass could have received the International Women’s Media Foundation lifetime achievement award by saying her life as a journalist had been a failure. By her standards maybe, but then she sets them high. If her aim is to stop successive Israeli governments…
J Street: good Jews, mad Jews and many in-between
I’m now in Washington DC for the first J Street national conference. Stay tuned.
Saree Makdisi speaks about the destruction of Jerusalem
At the end of September, I introduced in Sydney the leading Palestinian-American intellectual Saree Makdisi (my speech is here and a report is here.)
The Jewish establishment brings only darkness
Jay Michaelson in the Jewish Forward on Zionist bullies in the mainstream community: I loathe the company we Zionists are forced to keep: ethnocentrists, know-nothings, warmongers and worse; that angry pseudo-majority whose Disney-fied myths eclipse the region’s messy realities, who dehumanize Arabs and furiously lob the words “antisemitism” and “Holocaust” like rhetorical hand grenades. What…
Sri Lanka learns how to behave from its Zionist master
Which country does this remind us of? The Sri Lankan government today angrily rejected a US state department report containing allegations of human rights abuses in the final days of the country’s civil war, saying the document would fan further conflict. According to accounts said by a senior US state department official to be “credible…
Arabs are not loved, they’re treated with contempt
How can Zionists in Israel expect Arabs to declare their love for a Jewish state when this is taking place? Civil rights groups in Israel have expressed outrage at the announcement last week that a special undercover unit of the police has been infiltrating and collecting intelligence on Israel’s Palestinian Arab minority by disguising its…
Why must we treat Palestinians as humans?
Racism, mainstream Israeli-style: “When Israel sends a sophisticated satellite into space, the Arabs come up with a new kind of hummus,” Dr. Dan Schueftan told students during his course on Israel’s security perspective in the diplomacy and security program for senior managers at Tel Aviv University. An essay that was published in last Friday’s weekend…