The Gaza Freedom March, which I’ll be attending, is about showing solidarity with the people of Gaza and Palestine. There are certainly obstacles in the way, but this preview film, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, outlines the reasons behind the mission: Between a Rock and a Hard Place Preview 1.1 from Maurice Jacobsen…
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Anti-Zionist computer fried by US-made bullets?
The new notorious tale of the Israelis destroying a nice, Jewish girl’s laptop as she entered from Egypt:
Shoulder to shoulder with the Strip
My following article appears in the British magazine New Statesman: Freedom marches have a noble pedigree. Hundreds of thousands marched for racial equality in the 1960s US; among them was Martin Luther King Jr, who delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at the march on Washington in 1963. Now, thousands of miles away, the…
Call for Israel to lift siege of Gaza
The following article by Pam Walker appears in this week’s Sydney City Hub newspaper: Author and journalist Antony Loewenstein is among a group of prominent Sydney activists who will travel to Gaza to join the Gaza Freedom March on December 31, an international protest demanding the opening of the borders and the breaking of the…
Gaza needs yet another barrier to freedom, clearly
Yet another sign that the Israeli/Egyptian/American axis is giving the Palestinians in Gaza a rough deal: Egypt has begun constructing a huge metal wall along its border with the Gaza Strip as it attempts to cut smuggling tunnels, the BBC has learned. When it is finished the wall will be 10-11km (6-7 miles) long and…
Gaza remains an isolated entity
While Israel has imposed an unofficial block on foreign officials entering Gaza – “There is no ban, but we feel at this point that Gaza is a territory being controlled by terrorists and should not be visited by foreign ministers or any high-ranking dignitaries” – let’s not think the Egyptians are any better: Egyptian security…
Beijing uses oppressed blacks to justify oppressing Tibetans
The following reason given by China to continue to occupy Tibet is certainly an original way to see the world. In this reasoning, Israel could claim (and some Zionists do) that Israel is a far more benign occupier than the Egyptians and Jordanians and should therefore hold onto occupied land indefinitely: The Chinese government had…
We are keeping the Gazan people alive, barely
A strong New York Times story about the Gaza tunnels that keep the people there alive: Dusty sacks filled with cans of Coca-Cola were being loaded onto trucks by young boys, headed for supermarkets in Gaza City. Thousands of motorcycles were lined up on display in a nearby stadium, ranging in price from $2,000 to…
The truth of the matter in journalism
The following interview is published this week in the literary journal, Quill: SYDNEY-BASED ANTONY LOEWENSTEIN is the author of the best-selling book,… My Israel Question, a controversial discussion of one of the most important issues of our time, as well as… The Blogging Revolution, a searching examination of the ways the internet is threatening the rule of…