American Jews starting to speak out against Israel; more, please

This has been coming for a while and it’s growing. A fascinating feature in Haaretz that details the growing schisms in the American Jewish community. More and more Jews simply cannot support a Zionist state that oppresses the Palestinians. Jewish writer Eric Alterman shows indirectly how the only major groups backing Israel in the near…

Israelis who back BDS should not be prosecuted by the state

Resistance: Below is a short video of Israeli celebrities and several activists, among whom I was honored to appear. The video is in Hebrew and for an Israeli audience, but there are English subtitles. The video essentially is self-explanatory, but to give you a synopsis we are coming out strongly against the bill currently in…

Creating a faux firestorm when anybody speaks up for Palestinians

This was a story in Monday’s Murdoch Australian: Incoming Greens MP James Parker yesterday stayed silent. He refused to answer claims he had made inflammatory comments about Jewish people when discussing the NSW Greens’s proposed boycott of Israeli goods. Mr Parker, who on Saturday claimed victory in the seat of Balmain in Sydney’s inner west,…

Israel hearts apartheid South Africa (how they miss those glory days)

Daniel Blatman, Haaretz: The historical background of the Israeli apartheid state-in-the-making that is emerging before our eyes should be sought in 1967. It is part of a process that has been going on for about 44 years: What started as rule over another people has gradually ripened – especially since the latter part of the…

War in Libya pushed by “insufferable” French mini-imperialists

As the war in Libya drags on, this piece in the Daily Beast fully explains the role of French President Sarkozy and the supposed French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy (BHL), a man who loves a good Western-led war to allegedly protect the innocent but he reveals his true side by blindly backing Israel at the expense…

What statement on Sri Lankan crimes does; Tamil victims not forgotten

The recent public campaign against the Galle Literary Festival in Sri Lanka – I signed a statement alongside Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali, Ken Loach and others – was aimed to highlight Colombo’s gross human rights abuses and lack of accountability after the end of the civil war in 2009. PEN is currently holding a series…

Another day of hating Arabs in the Israeli mainstream

Really: Twelfth-grade students from Herzliya’s Hayovel High School took part in a simulated shooting attack in which the targets were figures decked out with the Arab keffiyeh headdress, Haaretz has learned. The incident took place at a military base last week during the annual 12th grade trip. The students were being escorted to a commanders’…

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