Welcome to the state of Australian “journalism”. Today’s article in Murdoch’s Australian discusses the current controversy over peaceful protests for Palestine against an Israeli business in Sydney, Melbourne and beyond. Reporter Cameron Stewart writes in a classic “balanced” way. One side says that but the other argue something else. If he actually used Google he…
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Israeli BDS campaigners support Australian BDS activists
Following the establishment pressure on Australian BDS activists – a futile attempt to silence people speaking out for Palestine by accusing them of Nazi-style tactics – here’s Israeli BDS campaigners sending a message of solidarity: We, Israeli citizens, members of Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call from Within, would like to express our solidarity with…
BDS activists in Australia such a threat that the Israeli government wants in
What a sad Zionist state. Rather than focusing on ending the illegal occupation of Palestinian land, activists for a free Palestine in Australia are framed as the greatest threat to public safety and an existential threat to the Jewish state itself. If only. Here’s Kim Bullimore in Electronic Intifada with useful background to the rising…
Sydney Morning Herald editorial endorses fence-sitting on UN Palestine vote
Perhaps we should be thankful for small mercies but such thoughts are written in a bubble, utterly removed from the fact that a two-state solution will never happen. Occupation is Israel’s only reality: The United Nations General Assembly vote next month for unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state is designed to put pressure on Israel,…
The current financial crisis is caused by the crack whores talking about it in our media
Leading Australian academic Scott Burchill offers thoughts on the current financial crisis: It is amazing that… S&P and Moody’s are still in business after their contribution to the GFC, let alone able to trigger GFC2 by downgrading the US’s credit rating. Ha-Joon Chang is absolutely right about the desperate need for structural reform in the financial…
Defending BDS activists to speak out against the crimes of the Zionist state
Following news this week that the Victorian government is investigating the role of all those “radicals” who dare protest an Israeli business that backs an occupying army, today’s development is ominous and suggests a wider public campaign is required. If any establishment figure wants to charge people for speaking up for Palestine and highlighting in…
When politicians and journalists dance incestuously
My following book review appeared in yesterday’s Sydney Sun Herald newspaper: Sideshow Lindsay Tanner (Scribe, $32.95) “Australia and its people deserve much better than the carefully scripted play-acting that now dominates our nation’s politics.” So begins former ALP minister Lindsay Tanner’s timely examination of the toxic relationship between corporatised media and its political cousins. Politics…
Anything to distract from crimes in Palestine; Australia to make BDS illegal?
This story is almost comical but shows the desperation of the establishment in Australia to silence any serious, legitimate and legal civil disobedience against Israel crimes. Ignore the shameful spin; this has nothing to do with targeting Jewish businesses because they’re Jewish; when the “peace process” fails, Israel must pay a price for occupying the…
Is Australia capable of showing any backing for Palestine?
On current evidence, the Australian government is (close to being) utterly captured by the Zionist lobby, the US alliance and blindness towards racial apartheid in the occupied territories. Are we capable of leading on this issue, and recognising that simply indulging Israeli behaviour is the worst possible friendship? Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd wants Australia to…
Here’s how Israelis become racist brutes in the IDF
The evidence is clear and reminds us of similar, colonial-era nations, including Australia, desperate to prove the morality of its ethnic cleansing: (via the UK Observer): Nurit Peled-Elhanan, an Israeli academic, mother and political radical, summons up an image of rows of Jewish schoolchildren, bent over their books, learning about their neighbours, the Palestinians. But,…