What is an occupying army to do when people are simply not as keen to kill Palestinians anymore? It is called Spot and Shoot. Operators sit in front of a TV monitor from which they can control the action with a PlayStation-style joystick. The aim: to kill. Played by: young women serving in the Israeli…
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Neo-cons re-group under a new name
Neo-conservatism isn’t dead and buried. It’s forming groups with the name of The Emergency Committee for Israel. And urging war with Iran.
Fox News explains racial discrimination in Israel
Well, well. Fox News (!) reports on the difficulty of Palestinians buying land in Jerusalem. The truth is starting to even emerge in corporate America: Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com
Dissent isn’t so welcome these days in Israel
Leading Israeli dissident Neve Gordon on the real meaning of BDS: There is a considerable amount of misunderstanding about the BDS (Boycott Divestment and Sanctions). As John Berger explained a while back, BDS is not a principle but a strategy; it is not against Israel but against Israeli policy; when the policy changes BDS will…
How not to discuss Israel and the Middle East
I recently posted an image that was inappropriate and ill-advised and was not intended to cause offense by making comparisons between Israel and Nazism. However, it expressed the sort of extreme views that are widely shared and growing worldwide but on reflection I realise that they should be not be given further oxygen and publicity.
The Jewish student who drew a swastika
How some Jews trivialise anti-Semitism and use it for political gain (via Michael Brull):
The US Israel lobby assist in the colonisation process
Just in case readers weren’t clear on the relationship between the American Zionist lobby and the West Bank occupation (thanks to an Israeli journalist for explaining): The West Bank construction freeze of all things should not be a problem: Firstly, because there was really never a full freeze, even for a moment. Secondly, because it’s…
Rabbis of hate
Israel, 2010: The letter circulated by three rabbis in south Tel Aviv in which they direct residents not to rent their apartments to migrants and refugees trying to settle in the city makes a pretense of concern for the welfare of the residents and compassion for asylum seekers. But it hardly manages to conceal the…
The history of apartheid continues to resonate
I can’t help but read this story in the New York Times about the World Cup and wonder about years ahead, when Israel has left its apartheid behind. People will look back and wonder how it ever happened. And those who backed and supported to the last drop of blood will not be forgotten. Who…