The following article is written by Sydney-based Evan Jones (his previous contribution to the site is here): Israel has long thumbed its nose at international law and its moral underpinnings. But its flouting of the International Court of Justice’s July 2004 ruling declaiming the illegality of the wall cutting through the West Bank was a…
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The paper of record waking up to Israeli colonies?
Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times today: The Israeli occupation of the West Bank is widely acknowledged to be unsustainable and costly to the country’s image. But one more blunt truth must be acknowledged: the occupation is morally repugnant. On one side of a barbed-wire fence here in the southern Hebron hills is the…
West Bank poverty “worse than Gaza”, says UK charity
Despite what the New York Times tells its readers about the wonders of life in the West Bank, the facts just keep on getting in the way: Children living in the poorest parts of the West Bank face significantly worse conditions than their counterparts in Gaza, a study conducted by an international youth charity has…
Palestinian “leader” begs Zionists to be nice
The delusion of the colonised. Please sir – the ones who have spent their entire lives demonising, killing and occupying us – treat my people well. God help the Palestinians under Mahmoud Abbas: The Palestinians have long feared the Jewish lobby in Washington. Now, they are embracing it. During a swing through the U.S. capital…
Israeli hack talks of Iranian armageddon
What’s the role of the corporate media? To provide a space for Zionist propagandists to spread lies about the “threats” in the region: In an interview in his office Tuesday, Israel’s ambassador to the United States warned that Iran might unleash a wave of terrorist violence in the Middle East in retaliation for the tough…
Can somebody tell them that slamming Islam isn’t great for Zionist spin
Remember Latma, the Zionist outfit in Israel run by the Jerusalem Post’s Caroline Glick? You know the ones. Hating Arabs and Palestinians in particular. Doing wonders for Israeli PR. They’re back with another tasteful affair:
The rise and rise and rise of BDS
The following statement has been released: The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), established in April 2004 by a small group of Palestinian academics and intellectuals and widely supported by leading civil society associations, unions and networks,[1] has not witnessed a sustained surge in cultural boycott of Israel as in…
Caring about Shalit is so touching (but shame about those imprisoned Arabs)
The cynicism here is almost comical. The Australian Jewish community and their American Jewish friends are deeply concerned about the plight of Gilad Shalit currently in Gaza. They are ably assisted by pieces such as this in the Washington Post, comparing Hamas to the Nazis. Leaders of the Zionist lobby in the US write articles…
There is a Zionist lobby in Australia and let’s look inside some more
Following the story in yesterday’s Fairfax media about Prime Minister Julia Gillard and her love for Israel and its cuddly lobby here in Australia, the following letters appear in the Age today: Peace throughout the Middle East cannot be achieved until Western nations such Australia show we are as concerned about justice for Palestinians as…
What is wrong with this picture?
Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman says this week that an independent Palestinian state is at least two years away. Jerusalem’s mayor continues to expand Jewish control in the city, pushing out Palestinian families. The International Trade Union Confederation votes to maintain the status-quo, oppose boycott, divestment and sanctions and speak like it’s still 1993. But…