Here’s a fun job to have. Hannah Rosenthal, former head of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, started this week as the State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism. Oh joy. Tablet Magazine asks her to respond to critics (and note how many times she has to say she loves Israel, just to…
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At what point will J Street realise that Israel isn’t democratic now?
J Street head Jeremy Ben-Ami debated the Executive Director of the American Jewish Committee David Harris on CNN earlier this week. They disagreed on some key points (Harris believes Israel can solve the conflict on its own while Ben-Ami believes only Washington can) but this comment by Ben-Ami was the strongest statement: The settlement enterprise…
How the Israel lobby infects the brightest minds
Adam Shapiro, an award-winning documentary filmmaker and human rights activist, is currently working with the Free Gaza Movement. This is his latest article: One year ago, I watched election results coming in for Virginia’s Fifth Congressional District, where my friend and colleague Tom Perriello was challenging incumbent Virgil Goode, Jr. CNN kept flipping the winner…
How many Hitlers are there in the world (Zionists need to know now)?
Zionist hysteria is as old as Zionism itself. But this recent example only proves the point over and over again. Zionism is an inherently insecure ideology that thrives on victimhood and aggression. This entire post from Promised Land has to be read to be believed: Gonen Ginat is deputy editor for Israel Hayom, the free…
Battle of the Zionist lobbies
After J Street condemned Sarah Palin for encouraging the expansion of illegal, Jewish settlements in the West Bank, J Street condemned her recklessness. Leading Zionist figure Abe Foxman condemned J Street for condemning Palin and questioned the group’s “pro-Israel” position. J Street responded and wrote this: Abe, we can disagree on matters of policy.… You…
Take cover when tackling Jewish power
The New Statesman’s Peter Wilby on this week’s Channel 4 documentary about Zionist power in Britain: The journalist Peter Oborne is a brave man. The inevitable accusations of anti-Semitism are already flying around after his Channel 4 programme on Britain’s pro-Israel lobby. Given 20th-century history, anti-Semitism is just about the most damaging epithet that can…
Australia looks briefly at the Palestinian cause and issues a sigh
The Australian government is so close to Israel it hurts the Jewish state’s jaw. So this news shows a) the hatred of the Zionist lobby towards the Palestinians, any Palestinians and b) the belief of the Rudd elites to only give rudimentary at best support for Palestinian rights: The federal Government has denied a shift…
Getting Jerusalem in a head-lock and not letting go (if only)
I just caught up with Andrew Sullivan’s column from last weekend’s Sunday Times on Obama and Israel. Despite the fact that Jeffrey Goldberg worries about Sullivan’s Zionist credentials, Sullivan argues that Obama has played the Middle East well so far and holds a trump card: In the long run Obama retains one key advantage. He…
Gideon Levy on Israel: we are in a coma
Gideon Levy, a fine Israeli journalist, speaks to the Real News Network: I know there is a change in the Jewish community in the United States, but it’s too little and too late…Israel, the Israeli society, is in a situation of coma for at least ten years.
Israel lobby funds another media tour. Read all about it
My following article is published today on Crikey: “Peter Hartcher is the Sydney Morning Herald’s international editor. He travelled to Israel as a guest of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies.” Hartcher’s latest piece for his paper tells a familiar tale. The UN Goldstone report on the Gaza war… ”‰—”‰in which Israel and Hamas are accused…