Guess which state wants to copy dictatorships?

Looks like North Korea wants to bring in some legal reforms. Oh wait: The [Israeli] Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved a bill yesterday that would allow the state to prevent detainees suspected of security offenses from meeting with an attorney for up to one year. The bill, introduced by Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch, aims…

BDS hits the Sydney suburbs

At Marrickville Council’s meeting last night [in inner Sydney], Greens, ALP… and an independent councillor united to adopt the following resolution moved by Greens Councillor Cathy Peters: “That: In particular recognition of its sister city relationship with Bethlehem and the strong support for this relationship from local progressive faith communities and other community members, Marrickville Council…

Mastercard, Visa and PayPal rather like illegal Zionist colonies

The huffing and puffing over alleged illegality by Wikileaks (nothing proven by a mile) compares badly to actual behaviour by many corporates in the Middle East. An important Crikey investigation: Visa, Mastercard and PayPal all enable donations to be made to US-registered groups funding illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank in defiance of international…

Israel’s policy of separation is backed by Western powers

Akiva Eldar writes in Haaretz what many people have known for years; Israel’s goal is to maintain the occupation forever: The testimonies of 101 discharged soldiers who served in the West Bank over past decade and collected their comments in a book published by Breaking the Silence show that even the status quo Clinton referred…

Friedman fears a nation with equal rights for all

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman is a little worried that a one-state solution may be coming to the Middle East because both Israel and Palestine supposedly aren’t serious about building a two-state solution. Now whose fault would that be? Perhaps a US government (and Zionist lobby) who have indulged Zionist violence and settlements for…

Avrum Burg: “Israel is mortally sick”

From the East Jerusalem Sheikh Jarrah protest website comes this: On Tuesday, 7.12, Israel took another step down… an alarming… slope. 50… state-employed rabbies issued a Hallakaic ban on selling or leasing… apartments or lands to non-Jews.… … The following day some 300 Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity Movement activists congregated outside of Jerusalem’s Great Synagogues to demand the immediate dissmisal of these…

People of Gaza remain under siege and largely ignored

Life is anything but normal in the Gaza Strip: Air strikes by Israeli warplanes at dawn on Thursday caused serious damage to the Gaza Strip’s only power plant, plunging the territory — which already suffers from frequent outages — into darkness. Media reports said the air strikes hit two sites belonging to Hamas near the…

So many Jews are AWOL on Palestinian rights

To his credit, Roger Cohen highlights in the New York Times the ongoing denial of mainstream Zionist groups in the US: Ira Stup was raised in Philadelphia attending Jewish day school and camps. He found his home in the Jewish community and was “intoxicated with Jewish democracy” as framed in the ideals of Israel’s foundation.…

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