During my recent After Zionism tour in Israel/Palestine, one of the events was in Ramallah. Present in the audience was Philippe Agret, Agence France-Presse bureau chief of Israel and the Palestinian territories. Here’s his piece (inspired by that event?) published in Lebanon’s Daily Star: OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: A renewed Palestinian bid to seek upgraded U.N. status…
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One state inevitable in Palestine/Israel but issue is right wing or left wing version
The kind of conversation that my recent book After Zionism is aiming to foster, this piece by Dahlia Scheindlin in +972 is more vital than ever: To put it bluntly: the question is no longer about whether one state should be considered, because if we’re counting “states” who control people, it is already a reality.…
What “5 Broken Cameras” shows about reality of Israeli fascism in Palestine
Last night I saw the acclaimed documentary, 5 Broken Cameras,… at Australia’s only documentary film festival, Antenna. It’s about Palestine, the non-violent resistance movement against the IDF and settlements and the grinding, daily brutality of the Israeli occupation. Here’s a piece about the film in the New York Times and an interview with the Palestinian and…
“After Zionism” contributor imagines Abrahamic state for Middle East
In my recently released book, After Zionism, there’s a range of views that don’t fit neatly into traditional categories. On yesterday’s ABC Radio National’s Religion and Ethics Report… with Andrew West, one of the book’s contributors offered his vision: There is a stalemate in the Middle East – no longer any tangible peace process between Israel…
If Europe was serious, boycotting Zionist colonies is just the beginning
Typically astute Gideon Levy column in Haaretz: Europe is waking up. The foreign ministers of that continent will soon issue regulations that will oblige products from the settlements to be marked as such. Good morning, Europe. Jerusalem, as usual, is fuming; it always fumes when anyone dares to mention the settlements. Jerusalem is in favor…
Launching Phil Monsour’s “Ghosts of Deir Yassin” CD in Sydney
Last weekend I was honoured to launch in Sydney the wonderful new CD by musician Phil Monsour called Ghosts of Deir Yassin. It’s about Palestine, identity, memory and recognising the reality of Israeli behaviour in the Middle East. Folk music at its most moving. Here’s my introductory speech:
Don’t think Zionist propaganda isn’t still creating quasi-robots in the US
Although debate in America is undeniably becoming far more nuanced when it comes to Israel/Palestine, many young Jews continue advocating for the delusional “dream” of a Jewish, democratic state, seemingly ignoring the reality of the occupation on both Palestinians and the Zionist soul. Here’s JTA: Jewish student leaders may be strident in their Israel advocacy,…
Calling it apartheid because that’s what it is
Mustafa Barghouti in Al-Ahram Weekly: What we need to do in Palestine is to develop a better knowledge and understanding of the system of slavery that Israel created, and that some of us do not see, whether out of ignorance, out of fear, or out of a sense of impotence in the face of this…
What I discovered as a Middle East correspondent
Independent journalist Donald MacIntyre has written a reflection on his eight years reporting Israel/Palestine: As the world concentrates on the Israeli Prime Minister’s new “red line” for an Iran strike, Jewish settlement in the West Bank accelerates apace. Settler leader Dani Dayan offered, in a recent New York Times article, a panglossian picture of the…