Following this week’s Marrickville BDS decision, today’s Sydney Morning Herald publishes an editorial that shows a profound ignorance of the conflict. The word “democracy” is thrown about so carelessly when describing Israel that many in the West continue living under the illusion that Israel proper gives full rights to its citizens. Arabs are profoundly discriminated…
Serco’s record on managing human beings far from ideal
While yet another detention centre in Australia, Villawood, run by British multinational Serco, is today facing refugee riots (and what do we expect, locking people up for months if not years? No mental trauma or anger?), earlier this week ABC TV’s 7.30 tackled the role of Serco. The story wasn’t bad (overly focused on under-staffing…
Just how genuine are Arab uprisings?
American government assistance for the purpose of “regime change” brings serious questions about what kind of Islamists are acceptable to the US (clearly some are, despite Washington being opposed to engaging, say, Hamas): The State Department has secretly financed Syrian political opposition groups and related projects, including a satellite TV channel that beams anti-government programming…
So Goldstone just wanted to be re-embraced by Zionist community
A sad New York Times investigation that essentially explains how Richard Goldstone was devastated about being shunned by Israel and the Zionist Diaspora. He wanted to be welcomed back. His report on Gaza is now tainted with his partial (unproven) retraction of allegations against deliberative Israeli attacks on Palestinian civilians: “I know he was extremely…
BDS keeps seeping into the US (while Israel fiddles with settlers)
This will only increase in frequency while the Zionist state continues to occupy Palestinian land. And how many young American Jews look at Israel and like what they see? Less every day: On Friday night [in Washington], a favorite cafe among progressives, Busboys and Poets, gathered letters to Gazans; the next aid flotilla in May…
Iraq war all about oil? Well, who knew?
No kidding: Plans to exploit Iraq’s oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world’s largest oil companies the year before Britain took a leading role in invading Iraq, government documents show. The papers, revealed here for the first time, raise new questions over Britain’s involvement in the war, which had divided Tony Blair’s…
NSW Greens speak up (gasp!) for Palestinians
Bravo: The NSW Greens have vowed to continue championing Palestinian human rights after a Sydney council’s boycott of Israel collapsed in the face of overwhelming political pressure. Marrickville Council, in Sydney’s inner-west, on Tuesday night dumped its boycott of Israeli products and services after widespread criticism from the federal and state governments, business leaders and…
SBS TV News story on Marrickville, BDS and Palestine
I feature near the beginning, talking about how the West allows the Zionist state to get away with its occupying ways. Background here and here.
What I said last night in Marrickville backing BDS and Palestine
Here’s an audio recording of my speech. The quality ain’t great (and I know it was recorded by many people so hopefully other audio and video coming soon): Here’s the ABC Radio AM story this morning on last night’s proceedings. The journalist interviewed me (but this wasn’t included in the final story…oh the shame!) but…