While residents in Gaza face increasingly regular power cuts, worsening the already cold conditions, Gazan blogger Amir Ismail writes on the effect of the Israeli blockade: For two decades the Gaza Strip has exported millions of flowers to the West. But the situation deteriorated seriously in the past three years. Horticulturalists’ greenhouses were bombed during…
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Elton John should turn his back on Zionist oppression (and write a song about it)
The global campaign and coverage of boycotting Israeli events and institutions is gathering steam (the latest information on the academic boycott is here). And what about this? A group of British academics have called on singer Elton John to cancel his scheduled performance in Israel this June. “Political or not political, when you stand up…
Another tale of Israel refusing medical care for the Gazan people
Israeli human rights group Gisha released this statement today: Gisha and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel appealed to the High Court of Justice on behalf of Issam Hamdan against a District Court ruling blocking his exit from Gaza for emergency medical treatment. …·… … … … … … … The State refuses to allow him out of Gaza based on its claim…
The Daily Show is selective about Middle East outrage
Jon Stewart covers anti-Semitic Hamas cartoons and worries about the kid’s education in Gaza. Fair enough, but can you even imagine the same show looking into US-backed, settler material that routinely demonises Arabs? Of course not: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Story Hole – Children’s Cartoons From Hamas…
The New York Times and its Zionist blind spot
The issue of New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief, Ethan Bronner, and the now confirmed state of his son in the IDF, is causing waves across the web. The paper’s Public Editor comments: There are so many considerations swirling around this case: Bronner is a superb reporter. Nobody at The Times wants to give in…
What happens in the Middle East
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East spread the message virally:
The Hague may soon be seeing some Israeli leaders
Trouble ahead for the Jewish state: The United Nations is likely to refer the findings of the Goldstone report to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, diplomatic sources in New York said on Saturday. A decision to bring the report on last year’s Gaza war before the court would follow a debate in…
Israel as a “fascist state under the cover of Zionism”
Gideon Levy in Haaretz: How can we truly know what happened in the Gaza Strip without Breaking the Silence, and how can we know what is happening in the West Bank every day without B’Tselem? But Im Tirtzu doesn’t want us to know; it wants to cover our shame. That, to it, is patriotism, but…
Israel can act how it wants during war, writes Zionist elite
Giora Eiland, former chairman of Israel’s National Security Council, writes in Ynet that international law is “irrelevant” when the Jewish state behaves in Gaza.
Dershowitz on Goldstone
Alan Dershowitz has concocted a response to the Goldstone Report over Gaza. The Magnes Zionist blog dissects it and reaches a depressing conclusion; the Harvard Law Professor is incapable of finding any fault with Israeli actions.