While increasing number of groups globally embrace the BDS agenda – a non-violent way to pressure Israel to abandon apartheid or pay a deep price – the Australian Zionist lobby is fearful: Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) President John Searle has strongly denounced The Australian Jewish Democratic Society’s (AJDS) recent decision that some boycotts…
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Gideon Levy on Zionist degredation
Haaretz journalist Gideon Levy speaking in Scotland on 16 August: The Israeli media is the biggest collaborator of the occupation in Israel. Israeli journalist Gideon Levy speaking in Dundee from Robert Stewart on Vimeo. Unsurprisingly, UK Zionists are accusing Levy of spreading “hatred” on his tour.
Not every “serious” analyst wants to destroy Iran
Despite a push by some Zionists in the US and beyond to strike Iran, Noam Sheizaf blogs from Israel that there’s hardly consensus inside his country to bomb the Islamic Republic. Some sanity still remains.
“Gaffes” by IDF soldiers
Rupert Murdoch’s news.com.au publishes this AP story that is surely designed to make the reader feel sorry for the Israeli state; they just can’t keep “secrets” secret anymore. The poor dears. What on earth should soldiers occupying the Palestinians do with their spare time? The security obsessed Israeli military is confronting a new adversary –…
Humiliating Palestinians is a daily IDF affair
Yes (via Haaretz editorial): Eden Aberjil doesn’t understand what all the fuss is about. The former soldier sees nothing wrong with posting photos on her Facebook profile showing her posing, grinning and amused, alongside blindfolded Palestinian detainees. “The pictures reflect the military experience,” she told Army Radio this week of her online photo album, entitled…
Australian churches finally start taking a positive stand against Israeli occupation
Let’s hope the churches stand firm against Zionist bullying. The idea of boycotting goods made in the occupied Palestinian territories is the least the church establishment should be doing: Australian Jewish and Christian leaders have met in Sydney to heal the wounds caused by a call last month for Australians to boycott Israeli goods made…
Young IDF soldier simply does what comes naturally
What’s wrong with taking photos of imprisoned Palestinians and showing the moral degradation of the Israeli occupation?
Ah, Israeli occupation, the best time of my life
What could be funnier than an Israeli soldier posting pictures of blind-folded Palestinians?
The real face of Hamas is appearing and it ain’t pretty
Amira Hass in Haaretz on the growing intolerance of dissent by Hamas in Gaza: Senior Hamas officials may watch their language when they talk with representatives of the depleted left, but the real attitude shines through in the conduct of younger activists and people lower in the hierarchy. They don’t stand so much on pretense…
Finding a way to make Arabs invisible in Israel
The fact that Palestinians living in Israel proper aren’t equal citizens in the state proves the lie of Israel being a real democracy. Gideon Levy in Haaretz outlines the growing push to eradicate Arabs from the Knesset altogether: The State of Israel owes a great debt to the Arab public and to the members of…