My following book review appears in this week’s Sydney Morning Herald Spectrum section: Fit to Print: Misrepresenting the Middle East By Joris Luyendijk Scribe, 241pp, $29.95 “A journalist who limits himself to the role of middleman,” writes Dutch reporter Joris Luyendijk, “is actually siding with the team that is best able to influence the news…
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Just one more way that the Gaza war is ruining lives
Middle East correspondent Jonathan Cook continues his ongoing series about life for Palestinians under occupation: Yunis al Masri was luckier than his two brothers in Gaza. Although the truck that ploughed into their car as they travelled to work in Israel 24 years ago killed Jaber and Kamal instantly, Mr al Masri survived with shattered…
What the Muslim world needs from Israel
Saudi Arabia, despotic and a US ally, is a key player in the Middle East, mainly due to its oil reserves. In the New York Times, Prince Turki al-Faisal, former director of Saudi Arabia’s intelligence services and ambassador to the United States, writes that until Israel gives up its colonial addiction to land, the Arab…
ABC Radio National on My Israel Question
I was interviewed on ABC Radio National‘s Saturday Extra yesterday about my book My Israel Question, the Western-backed Palestinian Authority and chaos in Gaza:
Living as normal a life in Gaza as possible
Ramadan in Gaza is a celebration (like everywhere in the Muslim world) but even more so in a land blockaded by Israel and Egypt. One blogger has posted some photographs of “normal” life in the Strip:
Jews occupy Arabs because they’re a threat
Following my article in the Canberra Times this week outlining the harsh realities in the West Bank and Gaza, this letter is published in the paper today: Antony Loewenstein (”Drop rose-coloured views to lift Gaza peace hopes”, September 9, p11) claims that Hamas is boycotted because Israel and the West refuse to accept its election.…
SBS Arabic radio on My Israel Question
I was interviewed this week on SBS Radio Arabic about my book My Israel Question, my observations of Gaza and the West Bank and the prospects of peace under Barack Obama (hint: not high):
Many young Jews don’t see Israel as the promised land
The New York Times publishes this weekend a feature on the “pro-peace and pro-Israel” lobby J Street (a group I’ve mentioned many times here.) The piece is important, for no other reason than it tells the world that not all Jews subscribe to the fanatical Greater Israel mindset. Sure, the writer talks about the “very…
Normalising relations with Israel is no longer acceptable
Naomi Klein on her support for the campaign against the Toronto International Film Festival: When I heard the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was holding a celebratory “spotlight” on Tel Aviv, I felt ashamed of Toronto, the city where I live. I thought immediately of Mona Al Shawa, a Palestinian women’s rights activist I met…
An important debate on sanctions, Israel and the one-state option
After my story in Crikey a few days ago – talking about the concept of boycotting Israel and the one-state solution – a Jewish Australian responded yesterday. The following is my (unpublished) response: The decision to support a cultural and academic boycott of Israel is not something to be taken lightly. It is done, like…