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…
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Give us something to love, please, pleads Zionists
One of the undoubted successes of the Gaza flotilla has been highlighting the humanitarian crisis inside the Strip. It’s real; I saw it with my own eyes last year. With news that Iran may escort further aid ships to Gaza – let’s not even think about how Tel Aviv would deal with that – it’s…
Talking BDS post flotilla massacre
My following interview with Green Left Weekly appears today: Sydney-based journalist and author Antony Loewenstein is an outspoken critic of Israeli policies and author of the best-selling 2006 book My Israel Question. He is the co-founder of advocacy group Independent Australian Jewish Voices and is a board member of Macquarie University’s Centre for Middle East…
Talk to Hamas now, says Turkey
While the New York Times calls for better relations between Israel and Turkey – and even urges Israel to end its siege on Gaza – Ankara has its own ideas about moving forward (via The Cable): As the crisis over a deadly Israeli commando raid on a vessel carrying Turkish activists continued to command the…
Some choice hate mail
Barely a week goes by without some highly intelligent piece of hate mail (often from fellow Jews) landing in my in-box (a full collection is published here). Here’s today’s contribution: Mr. Lovenshtein, you are disgrace to Jewish nation.… I have yet to see any Abdullah or Mohhamed going against own people the way so many…
Australians are increasingly vocal about Israel
Today’s letters in the Sydney Morning Herald show a combination of anger, defensiveness (on the part of Zionists who dishonestly claim that they actually think independently from the Israeli government) and passion: Immanuel Suttner and David Tester (Letters, June 4) ask if and when Bishop George Browning and others would express outrage about attacks by…
This is the level of “debate” on US TV over Gaza
Former mayor of New York Ed Koch and writer Jeremy Scahill discuss Gaza and the flotilla. It’s a parallel universe on American TV with blind Zionist supporters using the same language over and over again (terrorism, Jew-hatred, terrorism, Hamas killers, terrorism):
Is the world ready for pro-Hamas Zionist propaganda?
Latma is a right-wing Israeli website showing how rabid Zionism equals hatred of Arabs. It therefore makes sense that their latest effort on the Gaza flotilla is typically tasteless and ignorant. Welcome to pro-settler “humour”:
The Aussie Zionist lobby remembers its job
Israel is facing global criticism, so of course the Australian Jewish News focuses on poor, little Jewish students on campus who may be forced to see photos of dead Palestinians in Gaza. Tough times for the Zionist community: An escalation in tension around Australian university campuses is expected after the Gaza flotilla raid this week.…
ABC Triple J Hack on Israel and the Gaza flotilla
I was interviewed yesterday on ABC Triple J Hack – the daily current affairs program – on the siege of Gaza, life in the Strip and the need to allow Palestinians there to live normal lives: