It’s a sorry sight to watch the established Jewish community discuss which views are acceptable to be heard over Israel/Palestine. US Jewish publication Forward this week explains how Jewish Voice for Peace, who back BDS, believe they deserve to be heard in the wider debate. Phil Weiss at Mondoweiss challenges the frames of reference: From…
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Australian media incapable of hearing Palestinians
How to define farce? The Australian media’s coverage of Israel/Palestine and BDS. Palestinians and Arabs remain largely absent from discussion, lest they infect people’s minds. Instead, today we have a litany of articles that say nothing about the Middle East apart from craven white people desperate to pray at the altar of Zionist “democracy”. The…
This is latest American “policy” on Israel/Palestine
Laughably inept and almost criminally negligent. But repeat after me; Israel must be constantly indulged.
Murdoch press finds humour in Jewish-free Sydney suburb
This is what passes for comedy in Sydney’s Daily Telegraph. The message is very clear; be critical of Israel, condemn the occupation and urge Israel to follow international law and be accused of Jew hating and anti-Semitism by the Murdoch thugs. Sydney’s Marrickville council endorsed BDS as a principled and increasingly popular global movement. The…
Tell me Zionists; which Jews are acceptable for you?
The illusion is coming apart; the idea that Jews in general love and back Israel, no matter what. Jewish Voice for Peace is a US-based progressive, Jewish group aiming to expand debate on Israel/Palestine. Of course the usual suspects don’t like it one bit. For them, Israel is beyond debate and the glorious occupation and…
Where are the Arab voices in Aussie BDS debate?
My following story appears in today’s edition of Crikey: A few weeks after the start of the Iraq war in 2003, I talked to a senior editor at The Sydney Morning Herald and asked her why there were basically no Iraqi voices in the paper, either for or against the conflict. “I never thought of…
Australian media on Palestine; ignore the Palestinians
Satire is clearly dead. Weeks of media coverage of Israel/Palestine in Australia and the BDS campaign pushed by the NSW Greens and Sydney’s Marrickville council and not a peep from Arabs or Palestinians. I mean, why should they be heard? It’s only about their land in the Middle East but let’s not focus on details.…
Goldstone report on Gaza stands says everybody except Goldstone
Oh: The three co-authors of the damning United Nations report on the 2008-2009 Gaza war rejected on Thursday an op-ed by the fourth member and chairman Richard Goldstone in which he retracted key conclusions of the report – in particular saying that Israel had not intentionally targeted civilians during the war. In an article in…
New intifada in Palestine would have political power
Israeli Arab politician Hanin Zoabi has a long history of taking on racism within the Zionist state. She was very impressive during her visit to Australia in 2009. Her latest thoughts are calling for a new Palestinian intifada to rival the Arab Spring (a mass, non-violent movement is already feared by the Zionist state); “I…