Following the feature in yesterday’s Jakarta Post about my work and critical Judaism, I received the following email from Charles Solnik (a former IDF physician): I don’t know how you can be proud to be a Jew. The foundation of Jewishness is the Torah. That is even if one is secular or not their knowledge…
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Political process fails, Palestine activists take action
Leading BDS campaigner Omar Barghouti writes: After the semi-coordinated, effective campaign against Veolia and Alstom across several European countries, this is the first fully coordinated BDS campaign in Europe, targeting the main Israeli exporter of agricultural produce (including products of colonial settlements), Agrexco-Carmel. It is worth noting that the coalition against Agrexco-Carmel in France alone…
Israel is forced to fight 1947 over and over again
Israel, you have a global credibility problem and you aren’t even aware why: If the United Nations General Assembly were to vote today on Resolution 181, the Partition Plan that led to the creation of the modern State of Israel, “there is no doubt” that it would not be approved, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon…
The Wire on Israeli settlement “freeze”
I was interviewed yesterday on Adelaide-based current affairs show The Wire about Israel’s colony “freeze”:
Ending colonies in Palestine is anti-Zionist?
A leading settler group The Council of Jewish Communities of Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip on the Netanyahu government’s decision to “freeze” settlements: “We see the cabinet resolution as illegitimate, discriminatory and anti-Zionist,” said Dani Dayan, who chairs the Council.
Ehud Olmert in Australia and nobody says a word
Who else knew that a famous Israeli landed in Australia this week? Fairfax reports: Adding to the madness, visiting former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert swept by suddenly, on his way to visit Australian MPs. Olmert looked startled at the unexpected reception, as did his security detail.
The Islamic Republic doesn’t trust its own citizens
When a regime is frightened of its own people, it’s a sure sign of decline and fear: Recently, the Islamic Republic of Iran Intelligence Ministry announced that in order to counter Internet activism in Iran, senior officers will be trained. The minister of the intelligence counted internet activism as a new… challenge for the regime. The…
Madness predicted in the Middle East with Israel keen to attack Iran
This story in the Washington Post is revealing. America is essentially saying it has no issue with Israel bombing Iran and it can’t stop her, anyway. Who the hell runs the show over there? Two weeks before President Obama visited China, two senior White House officials traveled to Beijing on a “special mission” to try…
Nothing to see here, colonies will continue to expand
The world’s media is talking about Israel’s “settlement freeze” in the West Bank. It’s all a sham, of course, designed to convince the US-backed Palestinian Authority to return to the table and endlessly discuss negotiations and please Washington. And the occupation will only deepen. This little grab in Haaretz really speaks for itself: Attorney General…
Seymour Hersh wants to take on power and be challenged on it
Leading American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, an enemy of sedentary reporters and lying governments, speaks to the New Statesman: Is it always a journalist’s duty to report the truth, even if it may damage innocents? I’m a total First Amendment Jeffersonian. It’s their job to keep it secret and my job to find it out…