My following article appears on the leading US blog Mondoweiss: Jeff Halper, Israeli/American peace activist, retired anthropologist and head of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), writes in his recent book, An Israeli in Palestine, of the moment he became a “critical Israeli”: “I first became aware of being an ”˜Israeli in Palestine’ on…
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No weapons for all is surely the ideal
A sign of the times: New Balad MK Haneen Zuabi, the first woman to be elected to the Knesset as a representative of an Arab party, has welcomed Iran’s growing influence on Palestinian affairs and praised Iran’s quest for a nuclear weapon as a means of offsetting Israel’s regional military edge. Having Israel as the…
The pointless screaming of Zionists
You didn’t hear that the New York Times is accused by Zionist fanatics of being pro-terrorist, anti-Israel, pro-Ahmadinejad and soft on extremism? That’s because the usual suspects are increasingly irrelevant and shrill. There is more than one kind of Judaism in the modern age.
Wishful thinking and hard facts
The New York Times editorialised yesterday that it hoped and prayed Israel’s new government was serious about peace. It surely knows the truth; namely that every single Israeli government for decades has continued to expand the illegal colonies in the occupied territories: If Mr. Netanyahu is serious about being a partner for peace, he will…
We’ve got to keep on talking
Lebanese Chess is a fascinating blog written by a Lebanese Australian. His recent post is titled, “A week of speeches“: Khatami, Halper and Loewenstein … three public speakers at Australia’s main political university, the Australian National University (ANU), in a week. I went to see them all, and nothing much out of the three surprised…
It’s still a repressive state
Open letter on behalf of human rights campaigner Shirin Ebadi, now in danger in Tehran, signed by Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky and many others.
Is this how true change will come?
President Barack Obama’s message to the Iranian people is an intriguing way to affect change in the toxic relationship between the Islamic Republic and the United States:
Jewish leaders who fear anything other than conformity
The following letter appears in today’s Melbourne Age: Last week a major Jewish newspaper refused to run an advertisement publicising talks by prominent Israeli academic and peace activist Professor Jeff Halper. This week Jewish leaders are campaigning against talks with former Iranian leader Mohammad Khatami at La Trobe University’s Centre for Dialogue. While it is…
No, truth doesn’t matter
Medialens explains that most of the mainstream media have no memory or ethics: Have journalists learnt nothing from recent history? It truly is a wonder when a reporter can assert in public, on the BBC News no less, that “Tony Blair passionately believed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and posed a grave threat.”…
How the lobby looks to the general public
What the hell is wrong with these Zionist leaders? Clearly the only acceptable visitors are card-carrying Zionists. It’s called engagement with opposing perspectives, people: Melbourne Anglican Archbishop Philip Freier is under fire from the Jewish community for hosting a function for former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami while he is in Melbourne this month. Jewish Community…