Is this political correctness run mad? Or cultural insensitivity? Or just stupidity? The Canadian Jewish Congress says the Toronto Police Service is pushing anti-hate law “to its most absurd level” by listing “non-Jewish Shiksa” as a victim category in its latest hate crime study. The statistical report reveals that officers investigated hate crimes in Toronto…
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New Zealanders robustly debate Israel/Palestine
Following the recent feature in New Zealand magazine The Listener on my work, this week’s edition publishes the following letters (and note the perfect “balance”, one pro and one anti): In the unbalanced demonisation of Israel (“Cry the promised land”, May 15), writer Joanne Black, swallowing every generalisation, stereotype and distortion made by Antony Loewenstein,…
Removing this man without due and fair process shames Australia
With this decision, Australia once again shows itself to be far outside the parameters of international law, making security assessments based on a system completely lacking transparency. I once spoke at this Sydney Islamic centre last year and found an important space to engage Muslims on issues related to the Middle East and re-defining the…
I wonder why anti-Semitism really exists in Iraq?
How a Jewish, American soldier hears some anti-Semitic comments in Iraq (during protests against the Gaza massacre), becomes incredibly racist against Arabs on his return to the US and then reflects on why he still remains proud to be Jewish (and presumably Zionist). Yes, “liberating” Iraq is such a noble, Jewish act; millions of Arabs…
Daddy Zionist, tell me about the day we fought Tehran
What fun-loving Israelis do on the weekend, imagine war scenarios with a nuclear-armed Iran: A nuclear-armed Iran would blunt Israel’s military autonomy, a wargame involving former Israeli generals and diplomats has concluded, though some players predicted Tehran would also exercise restraint. Sunday’s event at a campus north of Tel Aviv followed other high-profile Iran simulations…
The Stalinist state known as Israel: Chomsky
More on Noam Chomsky’s barring from entering the West Bank by “democratic” Israel (a move supported by an Israeli politician of the supposedly centrist Kadima party but opposed by a leading columnist): In a telephone conversation last night from Amman, Chomsky told Haaretz that he concluded from the questions of the Israeli official that the…
Who helps us torturing “terror suspects?” Hint: Egypt and Israel
Robert Fisk on our friends in the “war on terror”: I began my column last week with the words “We know all about Guantanamo”. I was wrong. Courtesy of the Toronto press – until a few days ago, when half of them were censored out of the drumhead courts martial that pass for “justice” in…
How slamming Goldstone does nothing for Palestinian rights
A stirring call from Hagai El-Ad, executive director of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel. Civility and reason exists in Israel; just don’t expect the mainstream to agree: What will they come up with next? The campaign to discredit Judge Richard Goldstone, his fact-finding commission and the report that now bears his name seems…
Religion: what is it really good for?
The Auckland Writer’s and Reader’s Festival was a blast, ending yesterday. So much interest to talk openly about Israel/Palestine and audiences literally crying out for their corporate media to allow a wide range of views, including Arabs, anti-Zionists and skeptics. This New Zealand blogger reported on my event yesterday, a conversation about religion with Economist…
Chomsky barred from entering Israeli occupied West Bank (because of his views)
Zionist democracy in action: Noam Chomsky, a renowned Jewish-American scholar and political activist, has been barred from entering the West Bank. Chomsky was denied entry by Israeli immigration officials as he attempted to cross the Allenby Bridge from Jordan on Sunday. The lingusitics professor, who frequently speaks out against Israeli policy in the occupied Palestinian…