Get Up! is Australia’s biggest progressive organisation, modelled on US MoveOn.org. Get Up! has shied away from tackling the Israel/Palestine issue, preferring to focus on more domestic concerns. Its success in Australia is undeniable, though I know a number of members have been frustrated with its silence over the Middle East. But maybe that is…
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Just don’t upset the Jews
BBC management may be scared of the Zionist lobby, but many staff are not: Last night (25 January), saw our inspiring occupation of the BBC in Glasgow in protest at their decision not to air the Disasters Emergency Committee appeal on behalf of Gaza. We simply managed to walk in to the lobby of this…
The eternal victim
My following article appeared yesterday in the Canadian magazine Adbusters: Each side in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict believes criticisms in the media are biased, but the Palestinians are the ones doing almost all the suffering and dying these days. Antony Loewenstein argues for reality-based… coverage. Israel’s highly decorated Chief of Staff, Mordechai Gur, once said, “we make…
Step up or move away
With the Arab Initiative on the table for Israel – acceptance by the region if the Jewish state accepts a two-state solution, a highly unlikely proposition considering its obsession with expansionism – the recent war against Gaza has shown once again the impotence of the Arab world: There is more solidarity with the people of…
Do American citizens care about this?
So how does Israel pay for its wars against the Palestinians? Thank you, American tax-payer: War-related defence spending and civilian aid would boost the budget deficit and increase borrowing, said former treasury official Yoram Gabai, who is now the chairman of the Pe’ilim fund management unit of Bank Hapoalim. Raising the money at home might…
When they’ve nothing left in the tank
Jewish blogger Phil Weiss notes a growing tendency of Zionist extremists resorting to name calling: In their refusal to see what the slaughter of hundreds of Arab civilians has revealed about the foreign country they love, Commentary’s Noah Pollak and Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg have begun calling John Mearsheimer “Sheikh Hassan Mearsheimer.” This kind of namecalling…
It’s not bigotry when we say it
Why will so few Israelis and Diaspora Jews unequivocally condemn the growing tide of racist remarks and intent sweeping the Jewish state? The answer is clear; deep down, they have no real issue with the Arab minority in Israel and Palestinians in the occupied territories being treated as second-class citizens: In Non-Jews in a Jewish…
Suffocation leads to only one thing
Exclusive pictures from inside the tunnels into Gaza that provide a life-line to the 1.5 million Palestinians living there. After the recent war, work on these essential tunnels has already resumed.
Standing up for Palestine
The following advertisement appears in newspapers across Australia today (The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, The Canberra Times, The Courier Mail, The Adelaide Advertiser, The West Australian and The Herald Sun). It was signed by hundreds of Australian organisations and citizens, myself included. Australians for Palestine should be praised for their fine work…
Remembering the dead
The reality on the ground in Gaza, away from the politics: Fifteen days after the Israeli offensive ended Wa’el Al-Attar was found dead sitting next to a Kenya tree. Both he and the tree had been wounded by an Israeli missile. Wa’el, who had moved his family from house to house, neighborhood to neighborhood for…