Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz has a love affair with Israel that has no bounds. It’s therefore unsurprising that he supports Israel’s recent assassination in Dubai: The complaints leveled against Israel by European countries and Australia, regarding the alleged misuse of passports by the Mossad in the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, ring hollow and smack…
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Australian Jews reject ”˜right of return’
The following appears in this week’s Green Left Weekly: A petition signed by 35 distinguished Australian Jews rejecting the automatic right of Jews from anywhere in the world to settle in Israel is printed below. Under the racist “law of return”, Jews do not need to have any connection with Israel to obtain citizenship. Signatories…
Trusting Aussie spies is a fool’s game
Former Australian soldier and now journalist Sasha Uzunov examines the history of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) and finds a spotty record at best: It is both tragic and comical but ASIO has a poor record in catching the bad guys. The 1970s infiltration of Australia by then Yugoslav communist spies is a classic…
Australia dares not offend Israel even when crimes are clear
The latest on the Australia/Israel Mossad scandal: The Australian government is far from satisfied with the response so far from Israel on the alleged use of Australian passports by a Mossad death squad. In an interview with the Herald, a restrained Kevin Rudd said no more information had been forthcoming since Australia first protested last…
Demanding Australia stand up for its citizens in the West Bank
Back in February an Australian was arrested in the West Bank and roughed up by Israeli authorities. The following letter has been sent to Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Stop the War Coalition: Attention: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade March X, 2010 Dear Sir/Madam, We are writing to request that Australian…
Thoughts over prosecuting black and white war criminals
A fascinating case – holding those to account behind the Rwandan genocide is essential to dealing with that catastrophe – that highlights the fundamental flaw in our international system. Western leaders are always exempt from arrest. Is the Western world seriously saying that only black people and a few others are guilty of war crimes?…
Israeli film screening put on hold in Australia
How long do we think Australia’s relationship with Israel will be apparently strained? A few weeks? A month? Maybe longer? This story is certainly interesting: The screening of an Israeli film in Parliament House has been postponed amid heightened tensions between Australia and Israel. Three Australian passports were fraudulently used in the assassination of a…
Australia’s Israel lobby seem lost for words over Dubai murder
It’s about time Australia’s Zionist lobby was seriously questioned over its inability to find fault with the Israeli policy of state-sanctioned murder (via the Australian): Dual Israeli nationals will be banned from entering Dubai in a sanction that police say will be enforced by recognising “physical features and the way they speak”. The announcement, by…
Prominent Australian Jews, including Peter Singer, reject the Israeli right of return
MEDIA RELEASE 3 MARCH, 2010 Today is the national launch of a prominent new Australian initiative that rejects Israel’s automatic right of return for Jews across the world. Following a recent similar project in the US, 35 distinguished Australian Jews have signed a petition that indicates growing dissent from Zionist policies and dispossession of Palestinian…
How many Australians regards Israel as a problem child?
The following letters appear in today’s Sydney Morning Herald: Amin Saikal is wrong to call the hit on Mahmoud al-Mabhouh terrorism (”It is time for Israel’s friends to condemn its acts of terrorism”, March 1). This man was an armed combatant, whose chief aim was to destroy Israel and kill as many Israelis as possible.…