During last week’s New York event for After Zionism with Phil Weiss of Mondoweiss, we talked about the responsibility of Jews to speak out against Israeli crimes. But the danger, something I expressed repeatedly, was not falling into the trap of feeling overly obsessed with the internal conversation inside the Jewish community while Palestinians suffer…
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Making the logical connection between apartheid South Africa and today’s Israel
During my recent After Zionism book tour of Israel and Palestine, I had the opportunity to watch the wonderful documentary about Paul Simon’s Graceland album, Under African Skies, and the complex political discussion around apartheid and boycotts against South Africa. Journalist Joseph Dana, writing in The National, looks at the film and places it in…
“Only in America” files; get students more weapons
This is a lead story in today’s Wall Street Journal which I’m reading in California. It’s hard to understate the insanity of these proposals, that the more guns circulating in society the better, that more guns will make America safer: At more college campuses across the country, students are winning the right to pack a…
Here’s the Australian Parliament’s leading Zionist advocate
Melbourne Labor MP Michael Danby said the following in parliament this week: Mr DANBY (Melbourne Ports) (13:49):… On Monday and Tuesday I had leave for Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. I thank the whips and the parliament. For 120,000 Australians of similar background, even the most secular families, this is like Christmas, a time…
The “logic” of Israeli ethnic cleansing in 1948
Benny Morris, celebrated Israeli historian, has no hesitation, in this latest interview with Haaretz, supporting and defending the Israeli ethnic cleansing in 1948 against Palestinians: You said that people were mistaken when they labeled you a post-Zionist, and you described Palestinian society as being like a “serial killer” whose people should be locked up “in…
When Israel lies to America and Washington turns the other cheek
A revealing piece in the New York Times by Seth Anziska that outlines the ways that an arrogant Israel sees no issue with lying to its benefactor, America, while Washington appears far too willing to accept the word of a notoriously venal Israeli establishment: On the night of Sept. 16, 1982, the Israeli military allowed…
“After Zionism” debate at New York’s Brecht Forum
The following discussion was held on 18 September at the Brecht Forum with the founder of Mondoweiss Phil Weiss and yours truly:
Remembering Sabra and Chatila
Robert Fisk on a massacre that proves Western outrage over war crimes are highly selective: The memories remain, of course. The man who lost his family in an earlier massacre, only to watch the young men of Chatila lined up after the new killings and marched off to death. But – like the muck piled…
Everything you think about the goodness of the West is wrong
Read on. David Cromwell from Medialens provides the antidote to the false narrative which we’re taught from a young age.
Ilan Pappe on “The Forgotten Palestinians”
Dissident Israeli historian Ilan Pappe is currently on an Australian tour and this talk was given on 16 September at the University of Sydney: