A typical kind of column in the Boston Globe that blames the Arabs for the Middle East crisis. Why can’t those annoying Arabs just accept the scraps offered by Israel, asks Jeff Jacoby? A great response was posted on the paper’s website: Dear Jeff Jacoby, Your column in today’s Boston Globe defending Israel and titled,…
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Sure, he loves Muslims so much
Following my recent piece in Crikey about the Jewish community’s regular defamation of Islam, one of my targets, Daniel Pipes, today responds: Re, “Palestine, Israel and freedom of speech: striking at the heart of liberal democracies” (Monday, item 17). I object to a paragraph written by Anthony Loewenstein and published by Crikey on May 18,…
Expecting too much from Obama?
An interesting editorial from the Arab News on 20 May: For decades, the chasm between words and deeds has been the root cause of the continued nonexistence of a Palestinian state and the Israelis’ ability to treat international views on the matter with contempt. There have been floods of fine words about Palestinian rights and…
Palestine, Israel and freedom of speech: striking at the heart of liberal democracies
My following piece appears in today’s edition of Crikey: Echoing the discredited and contemptible Holocaust-denier David Irving, Australian Frederick Toben, who happily accepted an invitation to the 2006 Holocaust denial conference in Tehran, was back in the news last week after being found in contempt by a Federal Court for refusing to remove material from…
Please let us bomb Iran for the world’s sake
Dan Diker, the foreign policy analyst at the neo-conservative Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, outlines his perspective on the upcoming meeting between Barack Obama and Benyamin Netanyahu: One of the difficult differences between Netanyahu and Obama concerns their fundamentally different views over the linkage of the Palestinian-Israeli peace process to the containment of Iran’s nuclear…
If you spend it, deal with the ramifications
Former adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Eldad Yaniv, writes a very odd column in Haaretz in the form of a letter to Obama: So use the stick on Netanyahu, but give us the carrot. Go online and learn that alleged finance guru Netanyahu dumped the state budget last week and told the treasury…
Obama should stand strong (but will he? Probably not)
The challenges ahead for Barack Obama as he prepares for his speech in Egypt in early June are many. Will he honestly tackle Israel/Palestine? US-backed dictatorships in the Middle East? Human rights? The New York Times reviews: Even before the issue of human rights is raised, though, Egyptian leaders and activists will be looking for…
The freedom to praise Christ
Life for Christians in Gaza is tough, not least from Hamas and Israeli bombardment: To be a Christian in Gaza these days requires discretion. When I approached a group of Christians lunching in a beachside hotel — they were identifiable because the women did not wear Islamic headscarves — they insisted that Hamas is tolerant…
We should be so proud of our liberation
Iraq remains in dire shape, despite what many in the media are saying. Take the ever-increasing stories of religiously-decreed rulings against homosexuals. One Iraqi human rights activist says: Iraqi militias are deploying an unprecedented new form of torture against homosexuals, which involves inserting a particularly strong adhesive into the anus (of the victim) and sealing…
Power of the people
Dawn is Pakistan’s leading English language paper. Today it publishes a review by Mustafa Qadri of my book, The Blogging Revolution: Hot on the heels of his last book, My Israel Question (a history of the Israeli occupation of Palestine from the perspective of an anti-Zionist Jewish Australian), freelance journalist Antony Loewenstein delves into the…