Here’s how corporate and Zionist smearing works. British Liberal Democrats leader Nick Clegg is surging in the polls and this makes the old hacks, who can only imagine a two-party reality, nervous. Besides, anybody that dares challenge Israel and the US is clearly beyond the pale. For the record, Clegg is hardly some radical (for…
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South Africa gives Israel a few handy tips about race
A country with a dark past reminds the Jewish state that its behaviour is worthy of a dictatorship: Israel’s Prevention of Infiltration Order 1650 caused the South African government to have “taken note, with the greatest concern,” over a policy a statement called a “violation of an individual’s human rights.” Moreover, the statement said, the…
Throwing Palestinians out of their homes
And the removals begin: De facto government officials refused to accept a Gaza man into the Strip following his deportation from Israel on Thursday, security sources said, heightening tensions around a new military law expanding the definition of an “infiltrator.” The man, 36-year-old Saber Al-Beyari, had been granted a temporary residence permit 15 years earlier…
Not all politicians are in bed with Washington and Tel Aviv
What’s this? A senior Western politician questioning American and Israeli criminality? No wonder the political and media elites don’t like him and the public do. He speaks unspoken truths: Nick Clegg, the party leader dominating the British election campaign, has refused to rule out a push to be foreign secretary in a coalition government. And…
Jews for Goldstone
Encouragingly, a number of Rabbis have publicly come out and backed Richard Goldstone: Dear Judge Goldstone, As rabbis from diverse traditions and locations, we want to extend our warmest mazel tov to you as an elder in our community upon the bar mitzvah of your grandson. Bar and Bat Mitzvah is a call to conscience,…
How the West Bank movement is inspiring Gaza
A day in the life of a non-violent protest leader in the Gaza Strip.
Insecure Zionism, an ongoing series
Another nail in the coffin of Israeli “democracy”, a fanciful word that always meant discrimination against non-Jews: A new report and billboard campaign launched by Israeli group Im Tirtzu – the Second Zionist Revolution” accuses at least twelve Israeli human rights groups of support for or involvement in the indictment of Israeli officials for serious…
Threats to shut down Haaretz and silence any questions
An important by Jonathan Cook in The National that reveals the depressing state of intellectual debate in Israel. If you aren’t for the state, get out of the country, so the thinking goes. Dissent is frowned upon, to put it mildly: An Arab member of the Israeli parliament is demanding that a newspaper be allowed…
Hamas is not above murdering its enemies
Israeli human rights group B’Tselem rightly condemns the thuggish behaviour of Hamas: B’Tselem strongly condemns the execution today of two Palestinians convicted of collaboration with Israel, by the Hamas government in Gaza. The death penalty is immoral and violates the basic right to life of every human being. B’Tselem holds that under no circumstance must…
Goldstone barred from his grandson’s bar-mitzvah
Almost comical and yet utterly parochial and pathetic: Judge Richard Goldstone, who authored a damning report accusing Israel of committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip, has reportedly been banned by pro-Israel activists from attending his grandson’s bar mitzvah in his native South Africa. According to the report circulating on Web logs, the South African…