I spent the weekend in Brisbane, Queensland giving the keynote address at the annual… Queensland History Teacher’s Association conference. I was honoured to be asked to deliver an address on the Middle East and speaking honestly about Israel/Palestine. Over 220 teachers came from across Queensland, young and old, males but mostly females. I was warmly welcomed.…
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Murdoch’s Aussie organ just happens to think Nazism = BDS
This is almost a weekly obsession. As Israel’s behaviour worsens – just this week the UN released a report finding that the Jewish state tortures Palestinian children and uses them as human shields – Zionist fanatics will do everything they can to distract people from facts on the ground in Palestine and slam critics as…
My new book, For God’s Sake, launches July
More information about the book here… and more about the title shortly.
Haaretz calls proposed new Israeli law “apartheid”
Strong editorial that should resonate globally and open the eyes of anybody who seriously believes the Jewish state has any intention of giving Palestinians full rights: If anyone thought that the wave of anti-democratic legislation that had characterized the previous Knesset would stop with the end of its term, a decision by the Ministerial Committee…
Why Prism is important; we’re watching the watchers
My following article appears in today’s Guardian Australia: Politicians and journalists ignore public opinion at their peril. Less than two weeks after the explosive revelations by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden on the creation of a privatised,… American surveillance apparatus, a TIME poll finds a majority of… Americans support the leak, and… Snowden receives a…
What’s happening inside Australia’s Zionist establishment
It ain’t pretty. The last years have seen an increasingly radical and racist minority dictating that you’re either pro-settler or nothing. Nice try, old white men. As Israel officially proudly says that the occupation is permanent and Arabs can just suck it up, there’s been a recent debate in Australia that has been unwittingly led…
Echoes of German darkness in today’s Israel
Powerful Gideon Levy column in yesterday’s Haaretz: What do dogs remind you of? And what do German shepherds remind you of? And what about armed soldiers who sic German shepherds on people trying to sneak through a border in order to earn a living? These lines are being written in a hotel room in the…
Israeli soldiers talk frankly about their abuses in West Bank
Israeli group Breaking the Silence provides a vital platform for Israeli soldiers to speak out against the vile behaviour of the Jewish state in the occupied territories. The latest release is a number of female soldiers explaining the brutality that is normalised while serving in the West Bank:
Why nobody should take US seriously over Israel/Palestine part 65443
Watch this performance by a hack at the State Department this week and why Washington has no interest in holding Israel to account for its daily violations of human rights in Palestine:
Israel unleashes terror on Palestinians because it can
Beyond all the political posturing over Israel and Palestine, the reality of occupation grinds on. Gideon Levy writes in Haaretz of just one such event: The Israel Defense Forces’ Duvdevan unit is just about the very best, albeit with slightly less luster than the Shayetet, the Tayeset and “The Unit” − the IDF’s elite naval…