My following article appears in today’s edition of Crikey: Martin Amis claims we live in “the age of horrorism”, an epic struggle between the forces of “evil” and Western values. Meanwhile, the fifth anniversary of September 11 has caused Prime Minister John Howard to claim that Iraq is now better off without Saddam Hussein. As…
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Young Labor Left discuss the Middle East with party’s older heads
My following article appeared in yesterday’s edition of the Crikey newsletter: In a recent edition of the Young Labor Left magazine, Secretary Tim Chapman wrote that “young people today are not more conservative than previous generations, but we have grown up in a more conservative world ”¦ I think a key issue in this apparent…
Sanity is a matter of opinion
My following article appeared in yesterday’s Crikey newsletter: The Melbourne Writers’ Festival is over for another year and the main sponsor, The Age, has unsurprisingly declared the event a success. One of the more interesting sessions was a discussion about The Howard Factor, (Melbourne University Press) an assessment of the prime ministership of John Howard.…
The unreality of Greg Sheridan
My following article appeared in yesterday’s Crikey newsletter: The Australian’s foreign editor, Greg Sheridan, has released a new book, The Partnership. It tells of the intimate relationship between George W Bush and John Howard. Last Friday, former Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett launched the book at the Melbourne Writer’s Festival. Not unlike many festival sessions, the…
Mark Steyn and the conservatives – a night to remember
My following article appears in today’s edition of Crikey: When a right-wing think tank like The Centre for Independent Studies hosts an event titled “It’s Not ”˜Them’, It’s Us: The Need to Regain Confidence in Western Culture” – and invites conservative columnist Mark Steyn, Murdoch commentator and ABC board member Janet Albrechtsen and foreign policy…
The truth about the pro-Israel lobby’s influence
My following article appears in today’s edition of Crikey: It is hard to imagine a less appropriate context in which to read Gerard Henderson’s latest opinion piece. At a time when we’re being inundated by grim reports of escalating carnage in Lebanon and Israel, Henderson has launched an extraordinary attack on the notion that a…
What’s Israel’s real agenda?
The following article appears in today’s edition of Crikey: Antony Loewenstein, blogger, journalist and author of the forthcoming My Israel Question: Israel’s war against Hamas and Hezbollah is the latest sign of a US-backed client state that is truly out of control. The abduction of three Israeli soldiers in the last weeks was the supposed…
Oz media wimps out on Middle East balance
The following article appears in today’s edition of Crikey: Antony Loewenstein, blogger, journalist and author of the forthcoming My Israel Question (MUP), writes: There is one foreign affairs issue that remains virtually taboo in public debate. The close relationship between Israel and the US is almost universally avoided in the mainstream, Western press. When attempts…
Munich redux
My following article appears in today’s edition of Crikey: “Steven Spielberg’s latest film, Munich, is a milestone in mainstream American culture. It tells the story of the 1972 Palestinian attack on Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics but focuses more on the aftermath – and Israel’s response – than the massacre itself. Many prominent Jewish…
Danby update
Following the publication of a letter by Federal Labor MP Michael Danby in this week’s Australian Jewish News (for background and more information, see here), Crikey has placed this story of free speech as one of its top yarns of the day: 4. Loewenstein v Danby — Australia’s debate over Israel By Crikey reporter Sophie…