Following my article on Israel/Palestine in the Sydney Morning Herald this week and the response the day after, today’s paper has the following comment by the letter’s editor: Arguments about Israel and Palestine often seem to go on in parallel tunnels with no connecting passages, and that was neatly illustrated by the response to Thursday’s…
Rejecting Arabs from “Jewish” towns
David Rotem, Yisrael Beiteinu: In my opinion, every Jewish town needs at least one Arab. What would happen if my refrigerator stopped working on a Saturday?
New York Times editors get a nice tour of the West Bank by colonists
Because the New York Times really needs more riding instructions from the Zionist establishment: New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. and the influential daily’s executive editor Bill Keller visited the West Bank city of Ariel on Wednesday. According to the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, the American executives were given a tour of a number of…
Abe Foxman doesn’t want to talk about BDS, Arab rights, real democracy etc etc
The meltdown of an American Zionist leader, Abe Foxman, is an astounding thing to see: Abraham Foxman from Blue Pilgrimage on Vimeo. Max Blumenthal comments and I totally agree: Personally, I would prefer to see Foxman stay at the helm of the ADL for a long time, and not only because I enjoy witnessing the…
It’s not easy backing death squads in Iraq
This is what we have created in Iraq by our own actions; turning a blind eye to torture, murder and abuse. In the name of “liberation”, of course: One: During the foreboding months of 2005, one police unit struck more fear into Iraqis than the entire occupying US army. They were known as the Wolf…
Wolfensohn: “no-one particularly likes the Jews, no-one particularly likes the Palestinians”
James Wolfensohn, former World Bank President and former head of the Middle East Quartet, was on Australian TV last night talking about Israel/Palestine and the message was clear; America is Israel’s lawyer: Jim Wolfensohn, I’d like to focus mainly on your personal experience as George W. Bush’s handpicked choice as special enjoy of quartet to…
Israel has an Arab “problem”
The always eloquent Jewish writer and blogger The Magnes Zionist: Israel’s ‘Arab Problem’ was not the inevitable creation of Zionism, or even of the Jewish state idea. It was created by the specific kind of Jewish state that was founded in 1948, a state that embodied the exclusivist ethnic nationalist ethos of the founders, who…
So we pay contractors in Afghanistan and have no idea what they’re doing?
So while Australian troops are training Afghan warlords here and working with them in their country – something the military establishment is defending because, well, that’s the way it is in Afghanistan and it’s jolly fun to work alongside alleged murderers and rapists in the “war on terror” – the Western war effort is going…
Israel has problems but hey Hamas is nearby (relevance, Zionists?)
Following my article yesterday in the Sydney Morning Herald on Israel/Palestine, the following letters appear in today’s edition: For an alternative to Antony Loewenstein’s polemic against Israel (“Western politicians prefer to ignore Israel’s inherent racism”, October 28) I refer readers to Freedom in the World: Israel 2010 by Freedom House, a venerable and widely respected…
Are we allowed to violently assault asylum seekers? Just asking
Maybe one day, Western governments will ask themselves whether private companies should be tasked (and paid) to do the dirty work of removing refugees. Out of sight and out of mind: The government’s deportation policy has been thrown into confusion after it emerged that the Home Office banned private security firms from forcing detainees on…