The brave Palestinian videographers risking life and limb to document soldier and settler abuse in the West Bank:
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Don’t touch small, delicate little Israel, says wannabe Jewish Zionist
Murdoch attack-dog Andrew Bolt worries that the West is “selling out Israel” – yes, saying anything critical of the Jewish state is clearly one step away from anti-Semitism – and then this: I understand from excellent sources that Israel is alarmed by Kevin Rudd’s increasingly hostile comments (esepcially these) and policies, and major Labor donors…
Watch Obama spokesman avoid answering why America backs a Jewish state that flouts laws
Veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas asks a question to Press Secretary Robert Gibbs that too few journalists do: Why does the US support Israel when it continues to violate international law?
Some Jews avoid talking about their own apartheid and want to discuss US-backed Saudi issues
A sample from the recently released position paper summarising the discussions of the Working Group on Delegitimisation at the 2009 Global Forum against Anti-Semitism. Under the section “going on the offensive”: Launch a Saudi apartheid campaign. It is galling that Israel is tarred with comparisons to South Africa when there is a country that really…
Spare us your anguished Zionist soul
Norman Finkelstein on the less discussed importance of the Goldstone report: “The impact of the Goldstone report is tremendous,” the Middle East scholar Norman Finkelstein said when I reached him in New York. “It marks and catalyzes the breakup of the Diaspora Jewish support for Israel because Goldstone is the classical Diaspora Jew. He is…
“Israel is not Tehran”
Israel is a supposedly secular nation with an increasingly fundamentalist minority. Enjoy: Around 1,000 demonstrators marched Saturday evening outside the Prime Minister’s residence in Jerusalem to protest Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz’s decision to allow the continuation of single-sex bus lines that serve the Haredi community. Protestors held signs that read “Israel is not Tehran” and…
Australian mainstream newspaper dares to say a few things about East Jerusalem
For the Sydney Morning Herald, yesterday’s editorial is pretty strong. A sign, perhaps, that the Zionist lobby isn’t always running the agenda in the corporate media: Stephen Smith, the Foreign Minister, is right to be outraged by Israel’s announcement last week of plans for 1600 houses for Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem. Venturing beyond Australia’s…
A letter in the SMH to counter Zionist spin
Following yesterday’s article in the Sydney Morning Herald by Zionist lobbyist Vic Alhadeff, I submitted the following unpublished letter: Once again we have the sorry sight of an Australian Zionist spokesman, Vic Alhadeff (15/3/10) seemingly incapable of condemning Israel’s ever-expanding colonisation of the West Bank. While the international community is becoming increasingly intolerant of the…
Stop the presses: Petraeus links Israel/Palestine to US impotence
Praise the Lord. Finally, somebody realises that Israeli actions are directly affecting American interests and lives. Sure, this has been clear for decades but better late than never. The likely outcome from Washington? More “disappointment” with Israeli actions in Palestine and little else: On Jan. 16, two days after a killer earthquake hit Haiti, a…
This is what Israel has created in Gaza: kids with one thought on their minds
The Independent reports on the children of Gaza, suffering and dying for vengeance: Homelessness is just one of the issues facing the 780,000 Gazan children in the aftermath of the conflict, problems that are explored in a revealing new documentary Dispatches: Children of Gaza, to be screened tomorrow at 8pm on Channel 4. Perhaps the…