My following piece appears today in ABC’s… The Drum: An academic boycott of Israeli universities isn’t an attack on freedom of speech. The evidence tells us these institutions are key battlegrounds for breaches of international law towards the Palestinians, argues Antony Loewenstein. New Zealand’s $20 billion national pension fund… announced this month… that it was divesting from three…
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New press freedom group launches to support vital work of Wikileaks
Via the New York Times: A group advocating a more transparent government has formed a nonprofit organization called the Freedom of the Press Foundation to serve as a conduit for donations to organizations like WikiLeaks. The goal is to insulate those groups’ fund-raising efforts from political and business pressures. In December 2010, Visa, MasterCard and…
What unaccountable US torture looks like
Stunning post by Darryl Li at the Middle East Research and Information Project: Two of today’s headlines together provide a good example of the work of imperial forgetting. On the front page of theNew York Times, a… story… about the depiction of torture in the forthcoming national revenge flick… Zero Dark Thirty… shows how little debates have advanced over…
Memo to Murdoch’s rag; academic BDS is about Zionist occupation not Judaism
I’m no longer surprised by the profound dishonesty in Rupert Murdoch’s Australian when it comes to discussing Israel and Palestine. Today’s editorial covers the ongoing saga (pushed by them alone, an obsessive little bunch they are) about Dr Jake Lynch at Sydney University. They clearly imply he’s anti-Semitic for daring to oppose connections with Israeli…
What you aren’t reading from voice of reason at Sydney University over Palestine
Another day and yet more selective exclusion by Murdoch’s Australian newspaper. Dr Jake Lynch, head of Peace and Conflict Studies at Sydney University, submitted the following letter to the paper… after days of irrational attack: Your reporting of the BDS issue is in danger of descending into absurdity. It is clear to any reasonable observer that…
Teaching Murdoch’s The Australian about ethics and morality over Palestine part 65322
This week Rupert Murdoch’s Australian newspaper has been running countless page one stories about Dr Jake Lynch, the head of Sydney University’s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, for abiding by BDS and refusing to assist an Israeli academic associated with an Israeli university. Here’s the background. Today the obsession continues with heaps more coverage.…
My book of the year
I was asked by Green Left Weekly for my book of 2012: Antony Loewenstein Journalist, author, documentarian The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupation, Resistance and Hope By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan The corporate media’s reach into our lives can sometimes feel suffocating, with the same voices telling us that globalisation is good for…
Tale of principled Sydney University academic on Palestine and BDS
The following story appeared in Rupert Murdoch’s Australian newspaper yesterday on its front page: The Sydney University’s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, which has thrown its support behind controversial Palestinian leaders, has cited its boycott of Israel for refusing to help an Israeli civics teacher who has designed programs for both Jewish and Arab…
“The Israeli political class is a full-blown train wreck”
The New Yorker editor David Remnick attends a major Zionist event in America and shows, intentionally or not, that the American and Israeli political classes are insular fools who don’t care a hoot about Arabs (so what’s new, right?): Hillary Clinton is running for President. And the Israeli political class is a full-blown train wreck.…
Statement by Antony Loewenstein in support of Canberra Candlelight Vigil for #Assange
The following statement by me was read out last night in front of parliament house in Canberra to support Julian Assange and Wikileaks: In an age of government and corporate media spin, WikiLeaks stands tall as a unique voice of independence that demands support. The last 10 years of the so-called “war on terror” has…