Raimond Gaita is a leading Jewish, Australian intellectual. Like so many of them, he expresses profound ignorance and intolerance towards the Palestinian narrative and the recent Gaza war. Truth is forgotten when it comes to backing the Jewish state. The moral blind-spot is revealed yet again. Independent Australian Jewish Voices writer Michael Brull investigates. UPDATE:…
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From Colombo to Gaza via Geneva
The Gaza war continues to reverberate in the strangest of places: Veteran Sri Lankan diplomat Dayan Jayatilleka has been sacked triggering speculation that his protest against Israeli incursion into Gaza could have prompted the move. Jayatilleka, Sri Lanka’s permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva, said he hadn’t the “foggiest notion” why he was…
The borders are yet to be drawn
Oops: A tourism campaign depicting the areas of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights as part of Israel has been banned by the advertising watchdog following hundreds of complaints. The poster campaign, run by the Israeli Government Tourist Office, ran with the headline “experience Israel” with a picture of a boy snorkelling with…
The Palestinian experience
An interesting new film about the Middle East conflict but from a very different perspective: A woman from Gaza stands at an Israeli check-point. We can only see her back but it is clear that in shame she opens her top to a female Israeli soldier to show that her breasts have been removed in…
Why Australia should do the right thing in the Middle East
Jake Lynch, director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney, writes in the Sydney Morning Herald about Israeli criminality: Days after the Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, was greeted in Israel and thanked for having been “alone in sticking by us” during Operation Cast Lead, the attack on the…
We stand for reason and true balance
An interesting example of an American Congresswomen not blindly following the hardline, AIPAC stance: At a town hall meeting in late June in suburban Maryland, Rep. Donna Edwards’s tight rope walk was on full display. Edwards had come to White Oak Middle School to speak with the gathered crowd about her recent trip to Israel…
Gaza remains destroyed
Six months after the end of the Gaza war, no reconstruction has taken place. A report from inside Gaza.
Irish TV takes on the essence of Zionism
A remarkable discussion on Irish television. Nobel Prize Winner Mairead Maguire, former Australian Middle East reporter Ed O’Loughlin, the Israeli ambassador to Ireland and a spokesman from the Irish Jewish community talk about the siege on Gaza, Zionism, ethnic cleansing and the rights of Jews and Palestinians. Host Vincent Browne is a fiery figure who…
Jon Stewart is like Moses, maybe
Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show is a favourite on this site. His comments during January’s Gaza war were a rare Jewish voice of sanity during the madness. Sojourners magazine asks whether he’s also a prophet: It may be true that the Hebrew prophets used humor in that regard, to create social change, but it was…
‘If You Don’t Agree With Us You’re Antisemitic’
My latest New Matilda column, co-written with Independent Australian Jewish Voices blogger Michael Brull, responds to predictable charges of political bias by the Zionist lobby: Labor MP Michael Danby’s accusation of antisemitism against two Jewish writers is a false and dangerous misuse of that term, write the accused, Michael Brull and Antony Loewenstein Sometimes, people…