Back in March I spoke at Sydney’s Battle of Big Thinking about “Israel/Palestine reframed through the blogosphere”. My talk is now online: Antony Loewenstein – Israel/Palestine reframed through the blogosphere from APG Australia on Vimeo.
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Deutsche Bank takes a stand over Israeli apartheid
What happens when Israel believes it can simply continue occupying Palestinian land. And note the welcome bravery of a German company who can reasonably expect a massive guilt trip over the Holocaust: Following pressure from critics, Germany’s largest bank has divested from the Israeli firm that supplies technology for the West Bank security fence. Deutsche…
Gaza Flotilla sails into a positive outcome
As the Israeli army approaches the Gaza Flotilla – great images, team, unarmed civilians versus Zionist soldiers in camo – it’s once again pitiful to see the ways in which Israel supporters are all about PR and spin (there’s no crisis in Gaza etc) rather than realising that this is a battle they will never…
Murdoch really does care about deaths in Gitmo
Who says Fox News never has a serious discussion about American torture?
Perhaps Israel would like to silence Gazans permanently
The Gaza flotilla continues its merry way toward the Strip before the inevitable provocation by Israel (so much for Gaza being an independent territory when Israel says it has the right to stop the ships landing on the shore). The cost of the Israeli operation will be millions of shekels. Such money well spent. Gideon…
Assad and Meshaal speak (and we should listen)
The idea of journalists speaking to our “enemies” happens so rarely that it’s refreshing to see the exception to the rule. Too many media hacks fear being labeled as unpatriotic. Surely blindly backing the state, any state, is unhealthy. So, here’s Charlie Rose interviewing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal and gives…
How Palestine remains central to the Muslim world
Al-Jazeera English reports on the (mainly) Turkish contingent of the Gaza Flotilla on its way to the Strip: In a separate but related item, Turkey’s rise as a major power is being noted across the Arab world.
A writer loathed by the Zionist establishment
My following article appears in this week’s Green Left Weekly: American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein Directed by David Ridgen & Nicolas Rossier Baraka Productions Review by Antony Loewenstein Jewish critics of Israel are as old as the ideology itself. Zionism was regarded by most Jews in Europe as an idealistic delusion before the…
How the far-right is gaining support and love
The toxic mix of social disaffection, racism, growing unemployment and September 11 leads to this, a rising phenomenon across the Western world. We ignore such trends at our peril; such people can’t simply be dismissed as crazy and their views must be fought and challenged: In the back room of a sparsely decorated pub in…
Tell Israel to ditch its nuke now
A nuclear-free Middle East is a dream for us all. The elephant in the room has always been Israel, protected by the US and Western powers because, well, it’s the Jewish state. Don’t disturb the Jews. This news therefore is a little surprising but hopeful: The United States accepted Arab demands to pressure Israel over…