Multinational G4S manages prisons the world over and its human rights record is troubling; the company makes money from misery. These workers are right to protest the company in Britain: The military has been put on standby as the prison service braces itself for a day of industrial disruption over the first privatisation of an…
Another day of hating Arabs in the Israeli mainstream
Really: Twelfth-grade students from Herzliya’s Hayovel High School took part in a simulated shooting attack in which the targets were figures decked out with the Arab keffiyeh headdress, Haaretz has learned. The incident took place at a military base last week during the annual 12th grade trip. The students were being escorted to a commanders’…
Australian Murdoch press wants to insulate Israel from global move towards Palestinian justice and BDS
It’s a surreal sight. As debate in many Western nations move towards finding ways to hold Israel to account, Australia’s parochial media is desperate to target anybody who dares challenge Israel. Here’s the overseas debate: To boycott or not to boycott? That is the question that growing numbers of American Jews on the left wing…
Desmond Tutu stands up for Palestinian rights
He has just released this letter: Wednesday 30 March 2011 Dear University of Arizona Community, I am writing today to express my wholehearted support of the students in No Más Muertes/No More Deaths humanitarian/migrant-rights group and their institutional statement advocating divestment or business severance from the Caterpillar and Motorola corporations. … I appreciate their insistence for…
ABC News24 on killing Afghan civilians, Assad and ignoring indigenous lessons
Last night I was a guest on ABC TV News24’s The Drum to discuss issues of the day (video here). Foreign issues were front and centre. America’s Kill Team in Afghanistan – US troops murdering civilians for fun – is just the latest example of occupiers in inhospitable lands treating those they’re supposed to protect…
Serco’s trick; reward failure with a pay rise
Australia’s immigration detention centres, woefully mismanaged by Serco and the Federal government, is in chaos. But not to worry. Serco head honcho clearly deserves more money for causing misery to countless thousands: Serco Group Plc (SRP), a U.K. outsourcing company that derived about half its revenue from public-sector contracts last year, raised the pay of…
Time in Australia to pile onto anybody who speaks out against Israel
One: While Andrew Robb describes Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s criticisms of the Greens as ‘contrived’, he accuses the Greens of anti-semitism. It is NSW Greens policy to support a boycott of the state of Israel. Senator elect Leigh Rhiannon told online opinion site New Matilda that the Greens could have campaigned better around the NSW…
Speaking of Murdoch thuggery over Israel/Palestine
Another small step in the glorious path of Rupert Murdoch’s legacy. How can I hate Palestinians this week, my minions? Here’s Australian Murdoch editor David Penberthy writing today about the Greens and racism (this coming from a man who recently suggested backing BDS against Israel was akin to Kristalnacht under the Nazis.). I wrote a…
The ugly little Australian coalition against Palestinian rights (that will fail)
So this is how it works when advocating for Palestinian human rights. You’ll be smeared, accused of anti-Semitism and told you hate Jews. Anything to avoid discussion about what Israel is doing to the Palestinians; apartheid. I wrote an article this week for New Matilda detailing the New South Wales Greens and its policy of…
Scared of BDS, Zionists? Lingerie won’t save your nightmare
Almost comical (but actually tragic): “Like sexy panties?” The Birthright Israel Alumni Community, an initiative of the Jewish Enrichment Center, wants you to oppose boycotts of Israel because that’s where Victoria’s Secret lingerie is manufactured. Except that it’s not. After receiving fabric from Israel, the undergarments are actually made by Palestinian women and foreign workers…