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How lobby trips to Israel and beyond pollute political and media culture
Far too many reporters and politicians take free trips to Israel, America and elsewhere. In the vast majority of cases they’re little more than propaganda exercises. When it comes to Zionist lobby visits to Israel, I can count on one hand the number of returnees who write or say anything independent instead of mouthing Israeli…
“Sure, you could say this was a Twitter War”
Joseph Dana in Roads and Kingdoms challenges some of the more absurd claims in the corporate media about the Israel/Hamas conflict: Sure, you could say this was a Twitter War.… You would say that, of course, because Israel announced the launch of the fighting on Twitter. You would say that because after the fighting started,…
What must happen in Gaza now for the sake of peace and justice
Israeli human rights group Gisha writes: November 22, 2012. As the ceasefire agreement takes force, Israel has an opportunity to finally end the civilian closure of Gaza and enter into regional arrangements that will allow residents of Gaza the freedom of movement to which they have a right, while protecting the security to which residents…
New frontiers of “free speech”: pressuring Twitter to ban Hamas
Disturbing post by the ACLU about the growing pressure in the US to try and silence ideas or groups that certain interest groups don’t like (but who live and operate in the real world): With one major exception, the Roberts Court has been quite protective of unpopular (and even revolting) speech under the First Amendment.…
“The Palestinian people have rights not just aspirations”
Australian Greens leader Christine Milne tried to amend a motion in the Federal Senate this week to say that Palestinians have “rights”. The Senate said no. Welcome to one of the most fundamentalist Zionist parliaments in the world and bravo the Greens for being willing to say that Palestinians are human beings:
A singularly rare voice in Australian parliament that defends Palestine
Federal Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon speaks truthfully about what’s been happening in Gaza and the Middle East, unlike the sheep in the two major parties who simply mouth platitudes about Israel and receive their talking points from the Zionist lobby or political leadership. The following speech was given by Rhiannon on 20 November: The other…
This is the future: “equality for all the people in the land from the river to the sea.”
Yousef Munayyer in The New Yorker: Sooner or later, hopefully sooner, the all-too-familiar scenes of violence in the Gaza Strip—the sight, on Sunday, of children’s bodies being pulled from a flattened house; the rocket launches—will temporarily stop. As after every round that preceded this, a ceasefire will eventually be reached. The question is what we…
