This is a documentary that is finally finished and soon to be screened in Australia and globally. I was interviewed a number of years ago and remain pleased it’ll see the light of see. The Palestinian story told in the first person: ‘Return To Gaza’ is a personal insight into the Middle East Conflict through…
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Giving Goldstone a much deserved apology
A friend sends on this wonderful piece by the anti-Apartheid South African journo Allister Sparks that rebukes his country’s Chief Rabbi, Warren Goldstein, over the latter’s strongly expressed criticism of Constitutional Court member Richard Goldstone as well as Goldstone’s role in heading the UN’s fact-finding mission for Gaza: Sparks starts by noting that three of…
A joint Jewish and Arab party to move forward in I/P
Former Zionist leader and speaker of the Knesset Avraham Burg has a long, recent history of condemning the decline of Israel into a racist and discriminatory country. Now he believes a new political party is needed to almost save Israel from itself: The party Israel Equality (Shivyon Yisrael ) – with the acronym Shai in…
Israel should be for Jews, mainly
In a New York Jewish newspaper Forward editorial on Israel’s attempt to exclude non-Orthodox converted Jews from full acceptance in Israel – and note the Jewish Diaspora’s outrage over this issue but little care about the millions of Palestinians who can’t exercise their legitimate right of return – see how Zionists view their holy land:…
Aslan says 2-state solution is dead, and Indyk calls him a liar
My following article is published today on US website Mondoweiss: “The future of relations with the Muslim world” was the UN-sponsored event hosted at the New York Times building in central Manhattan on 21 July. Filled with journalists from Egypt, China and Turkey and the foreign policy establishment, roughly 150 people came to hear Roger…
Australian politicians love to embrace apartheid Israel
The utterly depressing state of mainstream Australian politics on the Middle East. Beyond embarrassing. Stuck in a bad Zionist lobby time-warp from 1948. Somebody, save us: The three major candidates contesting the seat of Wentworth in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs, addressed the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies plenum last night”¦J-Wire filmed the event. Addressing…
BDS starts knocking on American doors
The growing momentum of BDS hits the US, the most key country of all:
How Jewish are most anti-Zionists?
An interesting report in Tablet on a recent conference of the first major meeting of the US-based International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network. Whereas in the past, many anti-Zionists were soundly secular, today a growing number of non-Zionists are proudly religious but condemn the actions of the Jewish state.
Britain moves towards insulating Israel from even a light tap on the knuckles
The role of a real democracy is to protect the innocent and prosecute the guilty. When it comes to Israel, however, Western states are almost expected to give them a pass. We’re fighting terrorism, you see, and pesky civilians are simply getting in the way. Case in point: Tzipi Livni on Thursday welcomed a legislative…
Tell us how Israel really helps the US
Chas Freeman was defeated by the Zionist lobby last year after the Obama administration tried to install him as chair of the National Intelligence Council. He wasn’t sufficiently pro-Israel, so they said. He’s given a speech this week at the Nixon Centre that continues the ongoing public debate about what Israel really offers Washington: It’s…