The journalist who helped break the story that detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were being tortured by their US jailers told an audience at a journalism conference last month that American soldiers are now executing prisoners in Afghanistan. New Yorker journalist Seymour Hersh also revealed that the Bush Administration had developed advanced…
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Interview with the New Zealand Listener
New Zealand’s Listener magazine is that country’s only national current affairs magazine. I am interviewed in the latest edition, in preparation for my upcoming appearance at the Auckland Writer’s Festival and a national tour, on speaking truths over Israel/Palestine, West Bank and Gaza occupation, the role of journalism and shit-stirring: Loewenstein Listener May 15 (PDF)
Bring Auschwitz into the Israel debate and take a back seat
Why oh why do so many Zionists only write in apocalyptic language? Because that’s all they know. Victimhood is too appealing. Here’s Sarah Honig: Obama’s endgame is to debilitate, demoralize and destabilize Israel. All he offers Israelis is a choice of how his inimical goal will be achieved. This may be via allowing Iran the…
Obama loves the oil companies to death
Who bought the myth that Barack Obama was an independent candidate who thrived thanks to countless small donations from concerned Americans? Er, dream on: While the BP oil geyser pumps millions of gallons of petroleum into the Gulf of Mexico, President Barack Obama and members of Congress may have to answer for the millions in…
10 tips to convince those virulent Israel haters
Rabbi Marvin Hier is the founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, a leading Jewish organisation in the US. The document below is truly astounding, a hilariously clueless attempt to refute allegedly unfair claims against Israel and Jews. Black is white, the occupation is a charming day in the park and Israel just wants…
Israel can keep its nukes because the US loves Zionism
Equality in the Middle East? Perish the thought: It’s buried as Point 31 in a working paper being circulated by Egypt and other nonaligned parties at the Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference in New York: a pledge by countries signing the treaty that they will not permit the transfer of any nuclear-related equipment, information, materials or…
Isolating Iran is part of the “great energy game”
Here’s my interview with Foreign Policy Journal by Kourosh Ziabari: The Middle East is witness to continuous developments these days, such as Iran’s active diplomacy to attract the indispensable 118-member bloc of non-aligned countries to support its nuclear program, the growing isolation of Israel in European countries and within academic circles in the U.S., Arabs’…
Iran is the enemy and must be stopped/destroyed/killed
A handy guide to neo-conservative thinking on Iran and Israel (bomb/suffocate the former and love to death the other):
Fox knows close to nothing about environmental issues
A television network of mass disinformation: In the wake of the catastrophic oil spill currently occurring in the Gulf of Mexico, Media Matters reviews Fox News’ fervent advocacy for offshore drilling. Its activism has including promoting Sarah Palin’s “drill, baby, drill” mantra and pushing myths suggesting that drilling is environmentally safe.
Radio New Zealand interview on Israel and blogging
I was interviewed this weekend on Radio New Zealand National Saturday Morning with Kim Hill on issues of Israel, Zionism, Jewish identity, blogging and internet censorship. It was a long interview (over 40 minutes) and offered a rare opportunity to explore key areas of Zionist responsibility for occupation in Palestine and why blogging and journalism…