My following article appears in leading Israeli daily Haaretz: During this year’s AIPAC conference in Washington, Executive Director Howard Kohr warned the 7,000-plus crowd that the global movement to “delegitimize Israel” was gathering steam. “These voices are laying the predicate for an abandonment,” he said. His sentiments were almost apocalyptic: “The stakes in that battle…
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The Australian government is on notice
The initiator of the petition against Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard and her impending trip to Israel, Ned Curthoys, sent the following letter to her today: Dear Julia Gillard, The following is a petition that I’m presenting to you on behalf of some 180 concerned Australians, many of them eminent names in their chosen…
Feeling scared, suckers?
Just how threatening are alternative, Jewish voices to the Zionist establishment? Independent Australian Jewish Voices blogger Michael Brull explains.
Telling Australia how to behave well
The following article appears in today’s Sydney Morning Herald: Several Labor MPs have expressed concerns about Julia Gillard’s upcoming trip to Israel, where the Deputy Prime Minister will lead a delegation to hold a dialogue with Israeli leaders. The MP for Fowler, Julia Irwin, an executive member of the Australian Parliamentary Friends of Palestine group,…
Rupert’s helping hand in apartheid
Following the Australian’s desperate editorial on Saturday damning anybody who challenges Israeli policies, Associate Professor Bassam Dally, from The Australian Friends of Palestine Association, has issued an open to the paper’s editor, Chris Mitchell: A Friend of Palestine is not an Enemy of Israel Open Letter to Chris Mitchell Bassam Dally The editorial titled “A…
Anything to keep the occupation out of the headlines
Following the Australian’s article on the weekend about the Australian government’s impending trip to Israel, today’s paper publishes the following responses: The anti-Israel bigotry to which you refer in the editorial defending Julia Gillard’s visit to Israel (“A trip worth taking”, 13-14/6) is vividly illustrated in Amnesty International’s recently released annual global report. The survey…
Utterly missing the point
My following letter appears in today’s Sunday Age newspaper: The new blog the Sensible Jew (“Blog takes on the ‘swill’ who speak for Jews“, 7/6) appears unconcerned with anything other than improving the PR of the Zionist agenda. While a mature debate is raging overseas about war crimes in Gaza, ongoing settlement expansion in the…
Rudd’s nephew signs human rights petition
The following article by Patricia Karvelas appears in today’s Australian newspaper: More than 170 eminent Australians, including Kevin Rudd’s nephew, artist Van Thanh Rudd, have signed a petition calling on Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard to cancel her planned visit to Israel. Ms Gillard will later this month lead a delegation to the inaugural Australia…
Australians know who to blame
Zionists, better spend more on fruitless PR, me thinks: Many more Australians think that Israel’s military action in the Gaza Strip in January this year was not justified, a new poll conducted by Roy Morgan Research finds. And more Australians generally have sympathy for the Palestinians than the Israelis in the Middle Eastern conflict.
Australian Jews have a chance
The Australian Jewish Democratic Society has just released the following petition (which I have signed): The Australian Jewish Democratic Society together with other Jewish Australians who care greatly for both the future of Israel and the legitimate national aspirations of Palestinians we strongly endorse the views recently expressed by the US President in Cairo. His…