My latest column for New Matilda is about the realities facing the incoming Israeli government: The ground is slowly shifting in international attitudes towards Israeli policies. But the longer Israel delays changing direction, the fewer options it will have, writes Antony Loewenstein As the new Israeli Government under Benyamin Netanyahu begins its tenure, a small…
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A crushing legacy
Profiling a lost generation of children in Gaza: Yair Lapid’s Friday news magazine program reported on the situation in Gaza’s refugee camps and found, “Six and seven-year olds looking for discarded food and plastic bottles.” A days work–12 hours–might bring them 5 Shekels (about a dollar), but they have no choice but to work to…
A perfectly healthy country
War crimes? What war crimes? Military Advocate General Brig. Gen. Avichai Mendelblit on Monday instructed the Military Police Investigation unit to close the investigation into soldiers’ accounts of alleged misconduct and serious violations of the army’s rules of engagement during Operation Cast Lead. In a press release issued Monday the army said that the preliminary…
The enforcers are weak
Independent Australian Jewish Voices blogger Michael Brull writes in New Matilda about the limits of “acceptable” debate on Israel/Palestine in Australia: Desperate to promote Israeli Government policy, the Australian Jewish establishment has resorted to calling all kinds of people anti-Semites — even Jews
Don’t think Obama doesn’t approve pounding Gaza
The latest Seymour Hersh article in the New Yorker focuses on the possible warming relationship between Syria and the West. But this paragraph stands out: The Obama transition team also helped persuade Israel to end the bombing of Gaza and to withdraw its ground troops before the Inauguration. According to the former senior intelligence official,…
Jewish blindness continues
Jawad Harb is a Palestinian living in Rafah, Gaza, with his wife and six children. Harb has worked with CARE since 2002, managing a program supporting women’s centres in Gaza. It is three months since the first bombs began to fall on Gaza, and I see that this war left much more damaged than just…
The reality of the slaughter
Kent Klich is a Swedish photographer. He just spent three weeks in Gaza where he has been working with the fact finders from PCHR. The result is the “Gaza Photoalbum” about the private interiors of the apartments shelled and shot at during the attack on Gaza from 27 of December til 18 of January:
Our actions cause hatred
Charles Freeman, the recently resigned applicant for chairman of the National Intelligence Council – the Zionist lobby struck again – talks about his views on the Middle East to the Jewish Forward newspaper: …Our relationship with Israel, given what Israel has done to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, has helped to create…
Australian academic boycott of Israel: global BDS day 30 March 2009
The following statement is released by Ned Curthoys and John Docker of the Committee for the Dismantling of Zionism: Responding to the CALL of Palestinian civil society to join the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, we are an Australian campaign focused specifically on a boycott of Israeli academic and cultural institutions, as…
Getting hot through liberation
More rabid anti-Semites dare to criticise Israel’s “moral” war in Gaza: Israel‘s military fired white phosphorus over crowded areas of Gaza repeatedly and indiscriminately in its three-week war, killing and injuring civilians and committing war crimes, Human Rights Watch said today. In a 71-page report, the rights group said the repeated use of air-burst white…