Nobody said that Western states aren’t inherently hypocritical but this supposed revelation opens a can of worms. Australia has used faked passports to carry out assassinations? Do tell (and even if they do, that means that we should simply accept it and allow, say Israel, to get away with murder?) And I note the increasingly…
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Murdoch gives space in Australia to defend Israeli terrorism
Just in case readers of Rupert Murdoch’s Australian broadsheet were unclear whether the Jewish state should be able to murder with impunity, the following two pieces appear today. One truly wonders how much more desperate these Zionists can become. Tel Aviv nukes Gaza and the apologists will be lining up to find excuses. How is…
Australia and Israel have “shared values” (such as backing never-ending occupation)
Israel’s deputy prime minister Dan Meridor: There is a very strong relationship with Australia. The same thing goes for the relationship with Britain. I think that the relationship will be and continue to be strong and maybe even stronger, because we are facing the same threat, the same problems, we share the same values in…
Our glorious politicians who sanction Israeli-led murder
Just in case it wasn’t clear, many in the Australian parliament are very happy for Israel to kill “terrorists” and use faked passports in the process. Israel is our ally, you see, and cannot be challenged: Foreign Minister Stephen Smith has accused the opposition of turning a blind eye to the abuse of Australia’s passport…
Why it’s now time for Australians to start asking what Israel is doing in our country
Just after yesterday’s pretty surprising decision by Australia to send an Israeli Mossad agent packing from this country – how many journalists are asking what the hell these Mossad agents are doing here? Spying? Co-ordinating intelligence? Shopping for red roses? – I was interviewed by a number of media outlets. A collection below. Melbourne Herald’s…
Australian Zionist lobby defends killing Arabs and doesn’t ask for permission
Following yesterday’s announcement that Australia will be expelling a Mossad agent after Israel’s abuse of passports in the murder of a Hamas official, one of the country’s leading Zionist bodies, AIJAC, released this almost comical statement. Remember, dear readers, murder isn’t murder when Israel is pulling the trigger: The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council said…
Starting to look at the torture regime led by London
What Britain is now doing. Let’s not be under any illusions about a Tory Minister allegedly looking into torture by a previous government – after all, major parties in most democracies usually protect the other from serious investigations into foreign policy issues – but such events aren’t happening in the US or Australia: The judicial…
Liberal Zionism debates what Judaism should be in the 21st century
I’m coming late to this essay but there’s a long piece in the New York Review of Books by Peter Beinart talking about the failure of American Jewish elites and the wider Zionist community to understand the real effects of blind backing for Israel. Arabs are openly loathed and yet liberal, American Jewry is walking…
Australian union takes a stand against illegal Zionist expansion
The news that one of Australia’s leading unions, the CFMEU, has begun a boycott of Israeli products from illegal colonies in the West Bank received a tiny item in yesterday’s Sydney Morning Herald but nowhere else that I can see. Here’s the group’s statement from 12 May: The… CFMEU… National… Executive… in… October… 2009… discussed… the… latest… state… of… affairs… regarding… the longstanding… Israeli/Palestinian… conflict… and… considered… information… regarding… the… Boycott, Divestment… and… Sanctions… (BDS)… approach… being… adopted… by… some… national… trade… union… centres. The… CFMEU… Executive… resolved… to… invite… the… Palestinian… Ambassador… to… Australia… to… address… the CFMEU’s… NEC… and… then… consider… our… union’s… approach… to… this… matter… further. The… NEC… heard… from… Izzat… Abdulhadi… at… its… February… meeting… and… considered… the… arguments… for… a boycott… of… products… and… goods… produced… in… illegal… settlements… in… the… Occupied… Palestinian Territories.…