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How Fox News serves us daily a whole heap of goodness
2011 has been a Fox News year with a Muslim American President, socialism in the class room, terrorists in the White House and: Elie Wiesel, Mr Murdoch, is a Holocaust survivor but he has used his fame to care about all kinds of causes (including, according to Norman Finkelstein, exploiting groups and firms involved in…
US and Israeli backed Egyptian state thugs causing mayhem 17 December
Washington and Tel Aviv must be so proud:
When Zionist nationalists jump into bed with the far Right
This is an area covered throughout the recently released book, On Utoya, and my contribution covers how the Norway killer Anders Breivik rather loved Israel in his manifesto. This piece in American Jewish newspaper Forward highlights this disturbingly growing alliance between hardline Zionism and neo-Nazis (yes, you read that right): Economic upheaval and strife in…
Obama’s message to Zionists everywhere; ignore the rumours, I love Israel in every way
Foreign Policy’s The Cable publishes… extracts of a speech that prove for the umpteenth time that Washington under Barack Obama is determined to blindly back Israel to the hilt. But be warned, fundamentalist Zionists; smearing critics as anti-Semites ain’t working any more: The Obama administration may not be getting a whole lot of love from the…
Hugging Israel so tight the poor little dear will just need money to fix the problem
While students in Gaza continue being blocked to study outside the Strip simply because they’re students (thank you democratic Israel), now and then the reality of unquestioned Western support for Zionism seeps into the mainstream. Even to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. Not that he suggests any serious pressure should be applied on Israel…
How French Jews are embracing an anti-Muslim, French bigot named Marine Le Pen
Tablet reports on how blind love for Zionism and hatred of Islam has become a toxic mix: Since its inception in the 1970s, the Front National has wrapped itself in the repellent rags of traditional French anti-Semitism. The series of outrageous… dérapages, or verbal slips, of the movement’s founder and longtime leader Jean-Marie Le Pen—Marine’s father—are…
Supporting BDS and Palestinian rights as a Jew
An open and frank debate about BDS against Israel in Australia is long overdue. Crikey blog This Blog Harms invited five people to write 1000 words on the issue. This is my contribution: The logic of… boycott, divestment and sanctions… (BDS) didn’t appear to me immediately. When my first book,… My Israel Question, was released in 2006, the…