Leading Israeli human rights group B’Tselem – once again proving that some of the greatest critics of the Jewish state’s apartheid policies are Jews themselves – release a report that is damning on the country’s policies: In the past year Israel has escalated its policy of separating the Palestinian populations of the Gaza Strip and…
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An undeniable truth
Israeli human rights activist Jeff Halper, who recently broke the blockade of Gaza, articulates a real Jewish humanity: To be honest, we Israeli Jews are the problem. The Palestinian years ago accepted our existence in the country as a people and are willing to accept ANY solution — two states, one state, no state, whatever.…
Time to honestly debate Israel/Palestine
My following post was written for Khaldoun, the blog recently started by Macquarie University’s Centre for Middle East and North African Studies, where I’m a board member: Robustly debating Zionism has existed for as long as its existence. Jews, historically a persecuted people, were unafraid to discuss the merits or otherwise of the plan to…
Welcome to Gaza
The siege of Gaza is (temporarily) broken. Proof that solidarity with the Palestinian people, suffering because they dared to vote for Hamas in free and fair elections, will never end until Israel’s malignant influence is over.
Highlighting Israeli brutality
With news that two ships have finally left Cyprus headed to Gaza to break the international blockade of the Palestinian territory, it’s probably unlikely that the Israelis will allow them access. If nothing else, this proves that Gaza is still an occupied territory, despite the rhetoric from the Jewish state and its courtiers the world…
Where are the Palestinian creatives?
Following the recent death of legendary Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish – beautifully eulogised here by Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery – a blogger in Gaza wonders what’s happened to the creative arts in the occupied territory: We have to acknowledge that we have a problem here in our culture and way of thinking, and that…
Vote 1: militant Zionism
My latest New Matilda column is about the political realities in Israel and Palestine: Antony Loewenstein looks behind the pre-election rhetoric in Israel and says the lack of a real difference between the front-runners means deeper trouble ahead for both Israel and Palestine Israel is currently in political limbo. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s leadership of…
Jewish international opposition statement against attack on Iran
I am a signatory, along with Noam Chomsky and a number of other Jews around the world, to the following petition, currently being spread far and wide: Efforts to beat the drums of war for an attack on Iran’s nuclear reactor facilities are promoted in both the USA and Israel scenes. … The recent New York…
Time for a different track
An Israeli Zionist commentator acknowledges what a blind man can see: The economic war against the Palestinians has failed.
How to starve the Arabs
The following letter appears in the July 26 edition of the Green Left Weekly: Three weeks after the Australian’s Richard Kerbaj whipped up a storm over humanitarian aid by a Sydney-based charity to the suffering people of Gaza, we find our own federal police jumping at this organisation in what seems to be a co-ordinated…