Sydney-based film-maker Daz Chandler has made this short documentary about free speech, the Israel lobby, Australian media, bashing Muslims, yours truly and Palestine:
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Gazans celebrate the holy Muslim festival
A report from inside Gaza during the festival of Ramadan: I heard it all the time in the occupied West Bank back in 2007, and I hear it here in besieged Gaza also: ”˜we used to live with the Jews, side by side. We worked together, lived as neighbours.’ The theme of coexistence is bastardized…
Gaza blockade is great for al-Qaeda
My latest New Matilda column is about the growing militancy in Gaza: The recent shootout in a Gaza mosque has highlighted the way Israel’s blockade of the strip radicalises people and encourages terrorism, writes Antony Loewenstein Gaza is facing yet another threat exacerbated by the ongoing Israeli siege: Islamic fundamentalism. In mid August, 24 people…
Gaza moves further down the path of radicalism
I investigated in Gaza the growing Islamisation of the Strip. It continues: Female students in the Gaza Strip will be required to wear head coverings and full-length robes beginning this school year, the Hamas rules of the Gaza Strip announced on Monday. According to the new regulations, any female student that does not attend class…
US aims to convince Muslims that killing them is for their own good
Barack Obama films a Ramadan message and tells the Muslim world that he cares deeply about Pakistan, Afghanistan and a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians. Yet again, this is effective PR dressed up as policy. Muslims across the globel aren’t going to be seduced by pretty words from the US President when Israel…
Humiliation as Israeli policy
An Israeli official recently told the BBC on the ongoing blockade of Gaza: The blockade, which is currently under review, may inadvertently benefit Hamas – but pointed out that easing it might be taken as a victory for the Islamic movement.
The Hamas defence mechanism
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal tells a Qatari newspaper of his group’s supposed attitude to a growing “virtue campaign” in Gaza: We will not impose a strict interpretation of religion on anyone. There is growing evidence from inside the Strip, including what I saw and heard with my own eyes and ears in July, that contradicts…
A growing challenge to the rule of Hamas
Following the clashes in Gaza between Hamas and an al-Qaeda affiliated group, the Washington Post offers the following (largely believable) analysis: The deadly shootout in a Gaza Strip mosque Friday between members of the ruling Islamist Hamas movement and a militant splinter group may signal further challenges to Hamas’s authority in Gaza as it tries…
Dealing with al-Qaeda in Gaza
The National editorialises on the recent dramas in Rafah against Muslim extremists: It was perhaps only a matter of time before Hamas was outflanked by a more radical group in its Gaza stronghold, but the bloody showdown between the Palestinian Islamist movement and the shadowy Jund Ansar Allah is an unwelcome development for the Palestinian…
Just how far will Hamas push the Strip?
Ben White in the Guardian on the growing Islamisation of Gaza: But why is this happening now? One answer is that these developments in Gaza are a consequence of the state of siege that the tiny territory has been under – a society that has been fenced-in, starved, and seen its very fabric torn apart…