There will be growing pressure towards the Greens to take on BDS in its arsenal to pressure Israel to abide by international law. Some are yet to get the message: Addressing an issue that is not likely to come up at other Victorian election debates, The Greens candidate in Caulfield encouraged more trade with Israel.…
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There is nothing humane about thinking to embrace settlements
What a false choice. True humanists don’t need to worry about “delegitimising” Israel because anything to do with the colonies is doing that for them. By not totally opposing the occupation is only leading to the Jewish state’s demise: Residents of the arid West Bank town of Ariel got a taste last week of Paris.…
Speaking to Norman Finkelstein about viability of two-state solution
I recently interviewed leading American Jewish dissident and writer Norman Finkelstein at an inter-faith event in Sydney organised by Father Dave:
How many checkpoints can one country handle?
Apartheid is a complex business to manage: Though a Defense Ministry unit was set up five years ago to oversee checkpoints between Israel and the West Bank, these checkpoints are still run by no fewer than six different agencies, and no single body coordinates their work, Haaretz has found. The agencies running the checkpoints include…
What’s some Muslim bashing for the Zionist lobby?
Oh dear: A major Zionist organization has withdrawn an advertisement because it featured images mocking the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The United Israel Appeal (New South Wales) – Keren Hayesod last week withdrew the ad for a young adult UIA event, which was issued as a press release as well…
John and Julie in Alaska are paying for Israeli apartheid
What Israeli “democracy” is all about, funded by the US taxpayer: Travelers along the “original” West Bank roads, the ones enabling drivers to bypass Palestinian villages, can see signs declaring “USAID from the American People.” The roads are one of the initiatives of the United States Agency for International Development for building infrastructure in underdeveloped…
Now that’s progress; Israelis take on apartheid
A great pro-BDS flashmob was carried out by Israeli activists on November 15 outside the Tel Aviv Opera House to coincide with the premiere of the the Cape Town Opera production of Porgy and Bess:
As if Friedman isn’t Israel’s best bloody friend
Read this for a laugh. A cover story in leading Israeli daily Ma’ariv slams New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman for being too critical of Israel and “jealous” of Netanyahu: You, Mr Friedman, are no Grossman and no Barnea. You’re just an American journalist. There are hundreds and thousands like you the world over. Many…
Pepper-sprayed for being a peace activist over Palestine
What Zionism is doing to Judaism. Here’s the latest press release from Jewish Voice for Peace: Last night, up to a dozen members of San Francisco Voice for Israel/StandWithUs, a right-wing Israeli advocacy group with a documented track record of aggressively taunting and intimidating grassroots peace activists, attended a Bay Area Jewish Voice for Peace…
Jews cry “anti-Semitism’ to distract from attacks on Israel
Here we go again. Israel faces growing international criticism over its behaviour towards Palestinians. And what happens? Jewish lobby groups cry “anti-Semitism”. If anybody faces hatred simply because they are Jewish, that’s utterly unacceptable. But legitimate arguments against Zionist occupation, West Bank settlements, the siege on Gaza and racism inside Israel isn’t anti-Semitism and no…