The role of private security companies operating globally is a massive problem that is rarely addressed in the media. I investigated the role of G4S in Pakistan recently. The BDS movement in Palestine is also going after the same firm for very good reasons: Today, on Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, we the undersigned Palestinian civil society…
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What’s a rogue Zionist state to do when faced with so many “illegal immigrants”?
Build the world’s largest prison to house them (via the Guardian): A vast detention complex is rising from the sandy grounds of Ktzi’ot prison in the Negev desert, close to… Israel‘s border with Egypt, which will become the world’s largest holding facility for asylum seekers and migrants. When it is completed, at an initial cost of…
First Julian Assange TV interview is with Hizbollah leader
A brave first call. Julian Assange speaks to Hassan Nasrallah and doesn’t take the position, as so much of the corporate media, that he’s one of the world’s greatest terrorists (which he clearly is not). They discuss Syria, Assad, Israel, Palestine, religion, God, technology, Wikileaks and the US. Assange could be more forceful with his…
In no healthy definition is Israel a democracy
Israel has a rather massive image problem that won’t be solved by more money on PR. This Haaretz editorial… says such violence isn’t an aberration, it’s part of the occupying system: From time to time the news media or human rights groups film an Israeli in uniform using excessive force against human rights or peace activists…
Radio Adelaide on Holocaust Remembrance Day and Israel 2012
I was interviewed this morning by Radio Adelaide… on the issue below and modern Zionist politics: The April/May period marks a very important time in the Jewish calendar – it is Yom HaShoah or Holocaust Remembrance Day. In Hebrew, Yom HaShoah… directly translates to the ”˜day of calamity, devastation or ruin’; and since 1953, it is a…
This is not what courage looks like over Israel/Palestine
There really isn’t much to be added to this short but incisive post by Phil Weiss on Mondoweiss except to agree with his sentiments; the lack of guts by so many mainstream American intellectuals to comment on Zionism and the Israeli occupation of Palestine, as it’s seen as negatively affecting the career. Grow a pair,…
Palestinian Christians treated like second class citizens by Jewish state
Very few people understand the reality of life under Israeli occupation. Father Peter Bray, the Vice Chancellor of Bethlehem University, has regularly written missives about what it really means. This is his Easter message: Easter Sunday 8 April 2012 Greetings from this holy city of Jerusalem where again I have had the opportunity to gather…
Teaching Israel a necessary and non-violent lesson
Just another average day in occupied Palestine (via Haaretz): The state has confirmed that, acting without a court order, the army has barred Palestinian villagers from freely accessing their farmland for two years. The admission was made in the state’s response to a High Court petition filed last year by Beit Furik residents. The plots…
What needs to be said about Gunter Grass and THAT poem on Israel
Tariq Ali nails it: The German writer Gunter Grass (The Tin Drum) had already predicted the response to his poem in SdZ. There is no reason to be surprised, but there is every reason to be disgusted. Within Germany both the elite and a layer of the population by their words and actions appear to…