Justice Richard Goldstone addressed South African Jewish leaders at at a meeting on the 3rd of May: I welcome this opportunity of meeting with you this afternoon. At the outset let me say that I have taken no pleasure in seeing people around the world criticize the South African Jewish community and I commend the…
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Israel can keep its nukes because the US loves Zionism
Equality in the Middle East? Perish the thought: It’s buried as Point 31 in a working paper being circulated by Egypt and other nonaligned parties at the Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference in New York: a pledge by countries signing the treaty that they will not permit the transfer of any nuclear-related equipment, information, materials or…
The Jewish state looks to the man who made OJ a free man
According to Israeli media reports, Alan Dershowitz was offered (but refused) the position of Israeli Ambassador to the UN. Satire is dead.
Stuck on the Israel/Gaza border with nowhere to go
The latest edition of Gaza Gateway: The eleven-day protest of Ahmed Sabeh, released from an Israeli prison on Wednesday, April 21, 2010, and taken to the Gaza Strip – even though his home, wife and son are in Tulkarem – raises an interesting challenge to Israel’s control over the borders and population registry of the…
Attacking a Jew who dares to welcome Richard Goldstone
The price sometimes paid for simply being a Jew who questions Zionist dogma (and who do you think was behind these actions?) The Berkeley, Calif.… home of Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of the progressive Tikkun magazine, was vandalized with posters. The posters, attached to his door and the fence around his home, attack Lerner personally, and…
Israel thinks that canned fruit in Gaza is a security threat
A list of the goods Israel allows into Gaza is finally revealed: – Canned meat and tuna, but not canned fruit – Mineral water, but not fruit juice – Sesame paste (tahini) but not jam – Tea and coffee but not chocolate It’s shameful a state that calls itself a democracy isn’t simply shunned entirely…
Our only goal as Jews is to see Israel destroyed
Atlantic journalist and blogger Jeffrey Goldberg, commenting on John Mearsheimer’s recent speech in which he mentions some progressive Jews like Naomi Klein and Tony Judt, alleges that these kind of people are: part of a tiny minority of Jews who believe that the destruction of Israel will bring them the approval of non-Jews, which they…
Debating Zionism’s boundaries
My following essay appears in the current edition of Jewish, American magazine Tikkun: IMPOSSIBLE PEACE: ISRAEL/PALESTINE SINCE 1989 by Mark LeVine Zed Books, 2009 THE MAKING OF MODERN ISRAEL, 1948–1967 by Leslie Stein Polity, 2009 POLITICS AND VIOLENCE IN ISRAEL/PALESTINE: DEMOCRACY VERSUS MILITARY RULE by Lev Luis Grinberg Routledge, 2009 ISRAEL AND PALESTINE: REAPPRAISALS, REVISIONS,…
The confused identity of those Jews (and fellow travellers) who rather like occupation and bombing
Following the publication today of Overland’s smackdown of Zionist attempts to silence alternative views on the Middle East in Australia, leading Australian academic Scott Burchill – we like him on this site – sent me the following response: Political apostasy is rampant amongst the Australian intellectual class. Overseas too. Think of Robert Manne (former right…
Privileged Australian Zionists moan about censorship while Palestine disappears
A sorry saga that needs no introduction. Independent Australian magazine Overland recently received this letter from six Jewish academics. It was sent to the editors of the publication and the editorial board: 20/4/10 Dear members of Overland Editorial Board, We are writing to express our grave concern about your journal’s unbalanced coverage of Israeli-Palestinian issues…