Just another day in the life of the extreme Zionist lobby looking like fools by pressuring the Canadian government to bar George Galloway. Will they ever learn that they simply come across as insecure Jews fearful of open debate?
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Freedom of the local press?
The following letter appears in today’s Sydney Morning Herald: Jeremy Gilling’s assertion (Letters, March 20) that Robert Magid’s reason for pulling an ad promoting talks by Jeff Halper “doesn’t cut it” is irrelevant. Magid is not answerable to Gilling or to the Herald. Extending Magid’s first reason (Halper’s promotion by groups that Jews find offensive),…
Jewish leaders who fear anything other than conformity
The following letter appears in today’s Melbourne Age: Last week a major Jewish newspaper refused to run an advertisement publicising talks by prominent Israeli academic and peace activist Professor Jeff Halper. This week Jewish leaders are campaigning against talks with former Iranian leader Mohammad Khatami at La Trobe University’s Centre for Dialogue. While it is…
Scoring an own goal day after day
The following letter was submitted this week to the Sydney Morning Herald but remains unpublished: It seems that we are again witnessing a distortion of facts in Australia when it comes to the Palestine/Israel question.… I refer to the visit of Israeli Professor Jeff Halper and the refusal of the Australian Jewish News to print…
Building a new kind of Judaism
My following letter was not published in today’s Sydney Morning Herald: As an Australian Jew, I stand alongside the Palestinians with millions of other Jews around the globe. The tragedy of their situation, inflicted by Israel and the Western powers, requires a simple moral reasoning; Jews are no longer the victim. Judaism is not Zionism.…
How not to run a major paper
The following letter appears in today’s Sydney Morning Herald: Robert Magid’s defence of his decision to refuse an advertisement in the Australian Jewish News promoting the tour of Jeff Halper doesn’t cut it (Letters, March 18). He offers two grounds. First, someone promoting Halper’s tour spoke at a demonstration where other people said and did…
What are they truly afraid of?
Rami G. Khouri, writing in Lebanon’s Daily Star newspaper, wonders why so many Western journalists refuse to call Israeli actions by their proper name: apartheid: If rhetoric is the first step toward action, then one of the rhetorical trends of our time indicating a giant step backward toward inaction is the American and European tendency…
Smear and loathing
The following letter appears in today’s Sydney Morning Herald: Robert Magid’s letter (March 18) justifying his decision to suppress an ad for Professor Jeff Halper’s speaking tour in The Australian Jewish News is a classic of smearing by association. He brings up all the bogymen calculated to upset his target audience and therefore make his…
Define: bravery
We salute you: Index on Censorship today announces the shortlist for the 2009 Freedom of Expression Awards. The awards, presented in association with the Economist, the Guardian, Bindmans and the Robert Gavron Trust, honour those who have furthered the cause of freedom of expression and battled censorship around the world. Prizes are awarded in five…
I’m just doing my job as a Zionist apologist
The following lead letter appears in today’s Sydney Morning Herald: Your editorial “With friends like these” (March 13) refers to the decision of the Australian Jewish News to refuse an advertisement promoting the speaking tour of an Israeli academic, Jeff Halper. It says I pulled the ad because I didn’t like the promoters. This suggests…