My following article appears today in Online Opinion: As a journalist who spends the vast majority of my life online, the seemingly never-ending debates about the future of the media and newspapers can be exhausting and predictable. The same mantras are heard over and over again. Where will the news come from when newsprint dies?…
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We don’t like it, so please stop it
Zionist intimidation, part 6543. Zionist insanity: The Jewish news magazine Joods Actueel has taken offence at the opera Samson and Dalila, which will première on 28 April at the Flemish Opera House in Antwerp. The 1877 opera, by Camille Saint-Saëns, contains a libretto based on the Old Testament book Judges and deals with the impossible…
Is our information safe?
Yet another episode in the ongoing lesson; never trust a government to honestly and transparently protect its citizens from “threats”: Britain’s failure to protect its citizens from secret surveillance on the internet is to be investigated by the European Commission. The move will fuel claims that Britain is sliding towards a Big Brother state and…
And we wonder why the Jewish community is so sick
The following letters appear in this week’s Australian Jewish News: Unhelpful to whom? Jeff Halper, (AJN 03/04), the recent visitor from Israel to our shores, seems to judge Diaspora Jewry’s relations towards Israel according to his own views of his country. A quick lesson in our Diaspora-Israel (not Israel-Diaspora) relations before his visit would have…
One rule for him and another for the others
On Canada, George W. Bush, Hamas, supporting terrorism and George Galloway:
The technology has a long way to go
Veteran China watcher Rebecca MacKinnon both acknowledges the power of the internet in the Communist nation but also its profound limitations: A new form of highly networked authoritarianism is emerging in China. Call it “Cybertarianism.” It’s not uniquely Chinese, but understanding how the Internet is mediating the relationship between state and society in China can…
Attacked and applauded for stance on Israel, Halper is a lightning rod
Following yesterday’s publication in the Sydney Morning Herald of Israeli peace activist Jeff Halper, today’s paper has the following letters: Jeff Halper has disclosed another example of the campaign by influential Jewish leaders to stifle any open debate on the Israel-Palestine problem (“Diaspora Jewry needs to let go of idealised Israel”, April 10). His treatment…
The Zionist lobby fails, Jewish voices are heard
Following my publication on March 31 of Israel peace activist Jeff Halper’s reflection on Australia’s myopic Jewish community, today’s Sydney Morning Herald publishes a version of this article titled, “Diaspora Jewry needs to let go of idealised Israel.” The Zionist lobby will not be pleased.
The kind of ally we should not have
Human rights for women (and men) in Saudi Arabia are atrocious, something I examined in my book, The Blogging Revolution. But activists there continue to agitate, as they should. But where is the international support for their actions? Activists in Saudi Arabia have protested a government ban on women drivers before, but it’s never been…
Let the light in before it’s too late
The global economic crisis is causing chaos across the world. But it’s pathetic to read fears that people should worry about Jews being targeted by the fall-out. The ever-growing obsession of the Jewish community about itself continues. The world doesn’t revolve around the Jews, believe it or not. We aren’t more special than anybody else.…