Earlier this year I initiated a petition for Australian Jews to reject their automatic right of return to Israel. In response, the predictably hysterical Philip Mendes (a Jewish social work academic from Melbourne) has responded under the headline, “Radical Australian Jews advocating for Israeli national suicide“: Last month a small group of Australian Jews signed…
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At least some Israelis are acknowleding that two-states is long gone
Meron Benvenisti, former deputy mayor of Jerusalem, tells the Guardian that the two-state solution should be dead and buried: Israel’s domination, he says, is now complete, while the Palestinians are fragmented into five enclaves – inside Israel, in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, and the diaspora. In this situation, the concept of…
Drone pilots should hire lawyers immediately
Killing civilians from the air may be illegal. Thank you for stating the bleeding obvious: The pilots waging America’s undeclared drone war in Pakistan could be liable to criminal prosecution for “war crimes,” a prominent law professor told a Congressional panel Wednesday.
The charming gassing of fellow Arabs by Egypt
Mubarak’s Egypt, doing the dirty work of Israel and America and laughing all the way to the corrupt bank. A “moderate” Arab regime, in the words of policy makers and Zionists: Egyptian forces pumped gas into a cross-border tunnel used to smuggle goods into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing four Palestinians, Hamas officials said.…
“Boobquake” alert across the world to warn the mullahs in Tehran
Following the recent comments by an Iranian cleric that women wearing revealing clothing may cause earthquakes, some ladies are fighting back (with appropriate contempt and humour): I have a modest proposal. Sedighi claims that not dressing modestly causes earthquakes. If so, we should be able to test this claim scientifically. You all remember the homeopathy…
Hizbollah rearms and accused of terrorism and Israel just continually rearms
Remind me who is the neighbourhood bully in the Middle East? It certainly isn’t Hizbollah or Lebanon: Hezbollah on Wednesday shot back at US charges it was stockpiling sophisticated weapons, accusing Washington of destabilising the Middle East and vowing to continue to build its artillery. “The resistance has the right to use all legitimate means…
Think of them and be scared; how Palestinian kids view colonists
A new, short film by MentalRev productions – their Gaza film is currently in production – is about Palestinian children in the rural village of at-Tuwani speaking about their encounters with violent Israeli settlers in the South Hebron Hills:
A day will come, and soon, when America will have to face what they’re backing in Israel
Henry Siegman, former national director of the American Jewish Congress, asks a question for anybody loving Israel to death: Most of the political parties that comprise Netanyahu’s government, including Yisrael Beiteinu, led by Avigdor Lieberman, Netanyahu’s Foreign Minister, and Shas, have left no doubt that if forced to choose between democracy and the state’s Jewish…
Sydney seen as a global hub of anti-Zionist fervour (says Tel Aviv “thinker”)
The Israeli think-tank Reut Institute has spent the last months arguing that Zionists need to battle the “delegitimisers” and fight back against unfair claims of apartheid in Palestine. Now in a new piece, we’re informed by the group that Sydney, of all places, is a global centre of Israel hatred: …A few generic principles can…
Californian Jews on speaking out and saying what they want on Palestine
Let’s celebrate the fact that growing numbers of Jews in the US are not staying silent anymore: An ad hoc group of prominent San Francisco Bay Area Jews is publishing an “Open Letter to All Jewish Communities” in the national Jewish newspaper, The Forward, warning of an upsurge in efforts to silence debate about the…