The following interview by Sam Whiteley appears in today’s West Australian: Freelance journalist Antony Loewenstein is no stranger to controversy. “The silence is over,” says Loewenstein, author of My Israel Question which generated a swell of public debate and was shortlisted for the 2007 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award. Co-founder of Independent Australian Jewish…
“Gaddafi is our shame”
Evocative piece by the New Yorker’s Jon Lee Anderson from inside Libya in the liberated city of Benghazi: Libya’s notional freedom seemed like a mirage until we had driven another six hours through a land almost bereft of people, a landscape alternating between desert and a rolling, fertile greensward of farms, and arrived in the…
America knowlingly wastes billions on futile conflicts
And none of it makes the US or its allies any safer; in fact the opposite is true: Tens of billions of dollars are being lost to waste and fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan because of a toothless U.S. contracting system so reliant on a handful of major contractors that it rarely suspends or desbars…
Israel should be given the South African treatment
My following article is written with Australians for Palestine co-founder Moammar Mashni and published in Online Opinion: “I am a black South African, and if I were to change the names, the description of what is happening in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank would be a description of what is happening in South…
NYTimes reporter blames Wikileaks for govt not giving her more information
Elisabeth Bumiller, Pentagon correspondent with The New York Times, spoke recently at Brigham Young University and seemed to blame Wikileaks for the lack of transparency at her workplace. This is a curious defence of reporters who simply can’t get information without it being passed by compliant officials. It’s not as if the Pentagon was this…
NSW Greens don’t see their job as solely defending brutish Israel
The decision of Sydney’s Marrickville council and the NSW Greens to back BDS against apartheid Israel continues to generate predictable hysteria from the Murdoch tabloids (and that’s to say nothing of the racist, anti-Muslim diatribes being circulated by many Jews and bigots across Australia): The Greens have threatened a trade boycott against the world’s second-largest…
What Israeli left?
Many in the West, including the Zionist Diaspora, talk about the Israeli Left as bravely challenging Israel’s descent into a fascist nation. Hugh Naylor writes in The National that this is a convenient myth: Left-leaning Jewish groups in the United States defied the pro-Israel lobby and criticised the US veto last week of a UN…
