It’s a surreal sight. As debate in many Western nations move towards finding ways to hold Israel to account, Australia’s parochial media is desperate to target anybody who dares challenge Israel. Here’s the overseas debate: To boycott or not to boycott? That is the question that growing numbers of American Jews on the left wing…
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Desmond Tutu stands up for Palestinian rights
He has just released this letter: Wednesday 30 March 2011 Dear University of Arizona Community, I am writing today to express my wholehearted support of the students in No Más Muertes/No More Deaths humanitarian/migrant-rights group and their institutional statement advocating divestment or business severance from the Caterpillar and Motorola corporations. … I appreciate their insistence for…
ABC News24 on killing Afghan civilians, Assad and ignoring indigenous lessons
Last night I was a guest on ABC TV News24’s The Drum to discuss issues of the day (video here). Foreign issues were front and centre. America’s Kill Team in Afghanistan – US troops murdering civilians for fun – is just the latest example of occupiers in inhospitable lands treating those they’re supposed to protect…
Time in Australia to pile onto anybody who speaks out against Israel
One: While Andrew Robb describes Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s criticisms of the Greens as ‘contrived’, he accuses the Greens of anti-semitism. It is NSW Greens policy to support a boycott of the state of Israel. Senator elect Leigh Rhiannon told online opinion site New Matilda that the Greens could have campaigned better around the NSW…
Speaking of Murdoch thuggery over Israel/Palestine
Another small step in the glorious path of Rupert Murdoch’s legacy. How can I hate Palestinians this week, my minions? Here’s Australian Murdoch editor David Penberthy writing today about the Greens and racism (this coming from a man who recently suggested backing BDS against Israel was akin to Kristalnacht under the Nazis.). I wrote a…
The ugly little Australian coalition against Palestinian rights (that will fail)
So this is how it works when advocating for Palestinian human rights. You’ll be smeared, accused of anti-Semitism and told you hate Jews. Anything to avoid discussion about what Israel is doing to the Palestinians; apartheid. I wrote an article this week for New Matilda detailing the New South Wales Greens and its policy of…
Scared of BDS, Zionists? Lingerie won’t save your nightmare
Almost comical (but actually tragic): “Like sexy panties?” The Birthright Israel Alumni Community, an initiative of the Jewish Enrichment Center, wants you to oppose boycotts of Israel because that’s where Victoria’s Secret lingerie is manufactured. Except that it’s not. After receiving fabric from Israel, the undergarments are actually made by Palestinian women and foreign workers…
Of course Australian establishment worried that true face of Israel is revealed
It’s ugly and racist. Long-time Australian human rights activist Pip Hinman writes in today’s ABC Unleashed of the stakes: A vicious smear campaign against the Greens candidate for Marrickville Fiona Byrne in the NSW state election reveals just how worried the powers-that-be are about the prospect of the NSW Greens winning a lower house seat.…
Palestinian engineer Dirar Abu Sisi kidnapped by Israel
Blogger Richard Silverstein is right, after watching Prime Minister Netanyahu speak: Can you imagine the leader of a democratic nation proclaiming before not just a national, but international audience, that a prisoner who hasn’t even yet been charged with a crime is guilty of being a member of a banned organization?
All we need to know about racist Israeli politics
One: Young Israelis are moving much further to the right politically, according to a survey to be released Thursday. The study found that 60 percent of Jewish teenagers in Israel, between 15 and 18 years old, prefer “strong” leaders to the rule of law, while 70 percent say that in cases where state security and…