How long do we think Australia’s relationship with Israel will be apparently strained? A few weeks? A month? Maybe longer? This story is certainly interesting: The screening of an Israeli film in Parliament House has been postponed amid heightened tensions between Australia and Israel. Three Australian passports were fraudulently used in the assassination of a…
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Amira Hass monitors Israeli apartheid
Two recent pieces by leading Israeli journalist Amira Hass are worth reading. First: “The year 2009 was the quietest for Israelis from the security point of view and the most violent for the Palestinians from the point of view of attacks by settlers in the West Bank.” Just as he was saying this – as…
When God gave Israel to the Jews (and radical Christians, too)
I missed this back in February, spoken by a leading Republican and Tea Party fan: At a Republican Jewish Coalition event in Los Angeles last week, Rep. Michele Bachmann offered a candid view of her positions on Israel: Support for Israel is handed down by God and if the United States pulls back its support,…
Australia’s Israel lobby seem lost for words over Dubai murder
It’s about time Australia’s Zionist lobby was seriously questioned over its inability to find fault with the Israeli policy of state-sanctioned murder (via the Australian): Dual Israeli nationals will be banned from entering Dubai in a sanction that police say will be enforced by recognising “physical features and the way they speak”. The announcement, by…
Who’s getting afraid of BDS?
A leading American Zionist organisation, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs.
Prominent Australian Jews, including Peter Singer, reject the Israeli right of return
MEDIA RELEASE 3 MARCH, 2010 Today is the national launch of a prominent new Australian initiative that rejects Israel’s automatic right of return for Jews across the world. Following a recent similar project in the US, 35 distinguished Australian Jews have signed a petition that indicates growing dissent from Zionist policies and dispossession of Palestinian…
Protesting Egypt’s wall of shame against Gaza
Resistance is continuing in Egypt: Activists and opposition groups are stepping up pressure on the Egyptian government to stop constructing a barrier along the border with the Gaza Strip. Officials say the barrier will prevent cross-border smuggling, but critics say it will seal the fate of the people on the Gaza Strip. “The Egyptian border…
Israel Apartheid Week 2010
Israel Apartheid Week is back: A filmmaker, anthropologist and economic researcher are among those headlining events marking what pro-Palestinian organizers have declared as “Israeli Apartheid Week” – and all three speakers are Israeli. University campuses in more than 40 cities around the world are marking the week with lectures, films, multimedia events, cultural performances and…
Rights is the key question for Israel/Palestine, not just peace
A fine post by Promised Land blogger Noam Sheizaf: When discussing the Palestinian-Israeli political process, the most common error is setting peace as its goal. This is not only incorrect, but also counter-productive, because it serves those who wish to maintain the status quo. The key to ending hostilities is to reframe the received narrative,…
When the mosques are being attacked, Israel is going too far
An interesting report on… Al-Jazeera on Israel’s increasing targeting of Muslim houses of worship in the occupied territories. As… my tipster tells me: I was in Cape Town a couple of years after the formal end of apartheid and visited an area which had been seized from its “coloured” inhabitants for the exclusive use of whites.… Every…