These days, any attempt by the Zionist community to present “vibrant, democratic Israel” should be met like this: Local activists protested the so-called “Israeli Innovation Weekend” (IIW) at the Museum of Science in Boston through multiple, disparate actions on Sunday. IIW’s sponsors, including the Consulate General of Israel to New England, were left flummoxed by…
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Israeli media rules: smear Goldstone, love the state and deny responsibility
This is how Israel’s biggest newspaper, Yediot, conducts its “journalism”. Smearing and in the service of the state. Here’s the lead: Yedioth Ahronoth investigation reveals man preaching human rights, who authored scathing report against Israel’s operation in Gaza, sent at least 28 black defendants to gallows as South African judge under Apartheid regime. He asserted…
Mubarak may just have to accept that he can’t kill Gaza
So much for Egypt’s inhumane wall on its border with Gaza actually stopping the smuggling into the Strip.
The world game continues in Gaza
The first Gaza World Cup football championship is about to begin. Unable to leave the Gaza Strip due to Israel and Egypt’s blockade, life must go on: The best of the Gazan footballers will compete against teams representing countries with aid workers and other foreigners in Gaza — Algeria, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy,…
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…
Goldstone reminds Jews that Israel is no different to any other state
Justice Richard Goldstone addressed South African Jewish leaders at at a meeting on the 3rd of May: I welcome this opportunity of meeting with you this afternoon. At the outset let me say that I have taken no pleasure in seeing people around the world criticize the South African Jewish community and I commend the…
Stuck on the Israel/Gaza border with nowhere to go
The latest edition of Gaza Gateway: The eleven-day protest of Ahmed Sabeh, released from an Israeli prison on Wednesday, April 21, 2010, and taken to the Gaza Strip – even though his home, wife and son are in Tulkarem – raises an interesting challenge to Israel’s control over the borders and population registry of the…
Israel thinks that canned fruit in Gaza is a security threat
A list of the goods Israel allows into Gaza is finally revealed: – Canned meat and tuna, but not canned fruit – Mineral water, but not fruit juice – Sesame paste (tahini) but not jam – Tea and coffee but not chocolate It’s shameful a state that calls itself a democracy isn’t simply shunned entirely…
Debating Zionism’s boundaries
My following essay appears in the current edition of Jewish, American magazine Tikkun: IMPOSSIBLE PEACE: ISRAEL/PALESTINE SINCE 1989 by Mark LeVine Zed Books, 2009 THE MAKING OF MODERN ISRAEL, 1948–1967 by Leslie Stein Polity, 2009 POLITICS AND VIOLENCE IN ISRAEL/PALESTINE: DEMOCRACY VERSUS MILITARY RULE by Lev Luis Grinberg Routledge, 2009 ISRAEL AND PALESTINE: REAPPRAISALS, REVISIONS,…
Privileged Australian Zionists moan about censorship while Palestine disappears
A sorry saga that needs no introduction. Independent Australian magazine Overland recently received this letter from six Jewish academics. It was sent to the editors of the publication and the editorial board: 20/4/10 Dear members of Overland Editorial Board, We are writing to express our grave concern about your journal’s unbalanced coverage of Israeli-Palestinian issues…