My following article appears today on ABC Unleashed/The Drum: My investigation has found a leading Australian electric car company is linked to an Israeli firm that operates in the illegally occupied Palestinian territories. Better Place, advertised as “dedicated to zero emissions driving”, is part of a global venture capital firm based in California that has…
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A nice example of the Israel lobby in action (and mouthing talking points)
Here’s how it works. A columnist in the Sydney Morning Herald, Mike Carlton, writes a column critical of Israel’s attack on the Gaza flotilla. The following week his column begins thus: It is a ferocious beast, the Jewish lobby. Write just one sentence even mildly critical of Israel and it lunges from its lair, fangs…
Inciting race hatred on Murdoch money
A helpful reminder of the kind of hatred that regularly appears in the pages of a leading Murdoch publication. Alan Howe is a senior figure in Melbourne’s Herald Sun newspaper who loves to demean Arabs and praise Israel (free trips to the Jewish state thanks to the Zionist lobby have certainly helped him hone his…
Is the Aussie Zionist lobby in trouble?
One of Australia’s foremost academics, Scott Burchill, senses a change in Australian public opinion over Israel. The Zionist lobby will have noticed. As will the lobby’s closest backers (such support is always helped by regular free trips to Israel and a constant stream of press releases). Over to Burchill in an online exclusive: Sometimes government…
How to shame Washington with one easy online dump
The power of Wikileaks has become legendary (this recent New Yorker profile is fascinating). A website unafraid to publish sensitive information and to hell with the consequences. Transparency with few limits: Pentagon investigators are trying to determine the whereabouts of the Australian-born founder of the secretive website Wikileaks for fear that he may be about…
“In short, the game is up”
Liberal Zionist lobbyist and two-stater Daniel Levy writes a pretty perceptive piece in Haaretz that should really be essential reading for all Zionists who only seem capable of voicing blind support for Israel (hello sheep-like Australian Jewish community): There were large demonstrations in Cape Town last week following the Mavi Marmara incident. For now, South…
Australia and Israel still share deep love for each other
Friends of Israel, fret not that Australia and your beloved country aren’t still thick as thieves.
What millions of Australians are reading today
The following advertisement appears in newspapers across Australia today, organised by Australians for Palestine:
Australian Jewish students can’t handle posters that support Palestine
The Australian Jewish News now runs an online TV channel. So what are they producing? Videos such as this, where students at UNSW talk about the supposed anti-Israel sentiment in the wake of the Gaza flotilla. Perhaps the most tragic part of this is one Jewish ‘leader’ showing the camera where on a map of…
What the Pixies think may be catching
A piece in today’s Murdoch Australian highlights the almost unstoppable movement towards isolating Israel until it recognises the error of its occupying ways. Not much evidence that many Israelis do believe that, but give them time: The piece is by Michael Shaik: “MICHAEL, she’s dead.” It was March 16, 2003. The huge anti-war protests of…