Israeli historian Ilan Pappe: “If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone report would have been a different document.” Thus opens Judge Richard Goldstone’s much-discussed op-ed in The Washington Post. I have a strong feeling that the editor might have tampered with the text and that the original sentence ought to have…
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Egypt may no longer be Israel’s bitch in Gaza
Looks like Israel may have a slight problem with its client state next door: Former International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei, who had previously announced his intetions to run for the presidency of Egypt, said Monday that “if Israel attacked Gaza we would declare war against the Zionist regime. In an interview with the…
American Jews starting to speak out against Israel; more, please
This has been coming for a while and it’s growing. A fascinating feature in Haaretz that details the growing schisms in the American Jewish community. More and more Jews simply cannot support a Zionist state that oppresses the Palestinians. Jewish writer Eric Alterman shows indirectly how the only major groups backing Israel in the near…
Don’t think Goldstone’s “retraction” changes a damn thing about the report
There was an intentional Israeli policy of collective punishment against the Gazan people. Mondoweiss co-owner Adam Horowitz tells Democracy Now!: …The Dahiya Doctrine is the war doctrine that Israel first used in the 2006 attack on Lebanon, which basically said that any area that they were receiving fire from, they would consider the entire area…
The ugly little Australian coalition against Palestinian rights (that will fail)
So this is how it works when advocating for Palestinian human rights. You’ll be smeared, accused of anti-Semitism and told you hate Jews. Anything to avoid discussion about what Israel is doing to the Palestinians; apartheid. I wrote an article this week for New Matilda detailing the New South Wales Greens and its policy of…
Palestinian engineer Dirar Abu Sisi kidnapped by Israel
Blogger Richard Silverstein is right, after watching Prime Minister Netanyahu speak: Can you imagine the leader of a democratic nation proclaiming before not just a national, but international audience, that a prisoner who hasn’t even yet been charged with a crime is guilty of being a member of a banned organization?
All we need to know about racist Israeli politics
One: Young Israelis are moving much further to the right politically, according to a survey to be released Thursday. The study found that 60 percent of Jewish teenagers in Israel, between 15 and 18 years old, prefer “strong” leaders to the rule of law, while 70 percent say that in cases where state security and…
What kind of “democracy” measures calorie intake for prisoners in Gaza?
Israel. Human rights group Gisha issues the following release: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 – Last Wednesday, March 23, 2011, the Tel Aviv Administrative Court ruled that the Defense Ministry must immediately provide Gisha with the “red lines document” and reveal the names of the officials enforcing the closure. It also ruled that the ministry must…
“The Israel Lobby”, five years on
One of its authors, Steve Walt, reflects on a tumultuous period and his work’s undoubted influence. One of the great personal successes, in my view, has been the increasing number of Jews who recognise the devastating result of simply allowing the pro-settler, anti-Palestinian Zionists solely taking the floor. Judaism simply cannot be about backing never-ending…
Palestinians heard backing BDS in Marrickville
With all the talk about Marrickville council embracing BDS in Sydney, Palestinian voices have been largely absent. Like in so many debates about the Middle East in the West, all we hear are Zionists and Zionists. Well, let’s change that right now. Here’s Australians for Palestine public advocate Samah Sabawi and the group’s founder Sonja…