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Jews who make excuses for not really speaking out
Following the revealing article in yesterday’s Sydney Morning Herald on Jewish dissent, these letters appear today: It saddens me that Peter Slezak wants to be a “non-Jewish Jew”, apparently glorying in some weird self-imposed excommunication (”Promised land needs home truth”, June 8). If he was an activist in the Australian Jewish community he would know…
Pappe on Israel’s ultimate goal
One of Israel’s finest historians, Ilan Pappe – now based in England – has a necessary take on the Jewish state’s current path of self-destruction: One would have thought that Israel’s drastic decline in international reputation would prompt new thinking by its leaders. But the responses to the attack on the flotilla in the past…
Blumenthal’s latest: Tel Aviv is alive to the sound of radicalism
From the streets of Tel Aviv, the chant of “Death to the Arabs” was heard on 1 June outside the Turkish embassy. Max Blumenthal reports: On June 1, 2010, thousands of Israelis gathered spontaneously in front of the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv to demonstrate in support of the Israeli Naval commando unit that killed…
What the Pixies think may be catching
A piece in today’s Murdoch Australian highlights the almost unstoppable movement towards isolating Israel until it recognises the error of its occupying ways. Not much evidence that many Israelis do believe that, but give them time: The piece is by Michael Shaik: “MICHAEL, she’s dead.” It was March 16, 2003. The huge anti-war protests of…
Do we have to have Arab members of parliament at all?
Zionist nationalism is out of control. Firs we read, in a rather comical way, that some right-wing Jewish groups want to rename Turkish coffee to, well, something else because Ankara is a terrorist state etc. But this is far more serious: The Knesset’s House Committee on Monday recommended revoking the privileges of Israeli Arab MK…
Please don’t ask Tel Aviv about life in Gaza
Too many in the mainstream media simply report Israeli talking points on the humanitarian situation in Gaza. People may not be starving in the streets but every human rights group in the world claims the people there are in desperate need of assistance. So what do many in the American press do?
Horror on the high seas
Gripping testimony from Al-Jazeera’s Jamal Elshayyal: Firstly I must apologise for taking so long to update my blog. The events of the past few days have been hectic to say the least, and I am still trying to come to grips with many of the things that have happened. It was this time last week…
Slamming Muslims won’t solve Israel’s issues
I sent the following (now unpublished) letter to the Sydney Morning Herald: Israel’s raid on the Gaza flotilla has been almost universally condemned but Paul Sheehan (Beware the words of a wolf dressed in sheikh’s clothing, 7 June) asserts that Muslim fundamentalists, the Left and Greens have formed an unholy alliance to destroy the Jewish…
Questioning the Promised Land is a Jewish need
I’m pleased to see my friend and co-founder of Indpendent Australian Jewish Voices (IAJV), Peter Slezak, with a piece in today’s Sydney Morning Herald on the importance of Jewish dissent. These are the kinds of debates the Jewish community are so afraid to have. By defending all Israeli actions, they are blind to the reality…