Care to imagine what an editorial meeting is like at Rupert Murdoch’s… Australian? No, me neither – “look, over there, a Muslim country the West hasn’t bombed, let’s fix that immediately!” – but there’s a weird obsession over supporting the Israeli government. There’s a direct line from the Israeli PR department to the writers at the…
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This American Life brings Israeli repression into US mainstream
Powerful radio documentary by Nancy Updike from This American Life that highlights the daily violations by the IDF in the West Bank against the Palestinians. This is what the grim reality of occupation looks and feels like:
While BDS surges globally, Murdoch’s organ in Australia fiddles
While Israel continues daily to brutalise Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, and Stephen Hawking’s decision to back BDS causes waves around the world, it’s comical to read Rupert Murdoch’s Australian desperately hoping that the Zionist state would just get some love. After praising Israel for singing lullabies to Palestinians recently, today’s editorial merely…
Watch furore over Stephen Hawking back BDS and realise its morality
Let the public debate thrive. Following Stephen Hawking’s decision to support the academic boycott of Israel, in a highly principled stand, the issue has caused globally gnashing of teeth and reflection. In short, most Zionists just can’t understand why anybody would pick on poor, little, occupying Israel. Some relevant insights below. The Guardian: The celebrated…
Stephen Hawking embraces academic BDS and rightly shuns Israel
Major news that highlights how mainstream this issue is becoming. Taking a stand against Israeli racism and institutional discrimination means more than words. Actions (via the Guardian): Professor Stephen Hawking is backing the academic boycott of Israel by pulling out of a conference hosted by Israeli president Shimon Peres in Jerusalem as a protest at…
Why standing up for human rights, against the tide, matters
Salman Rushdie writes in the New York Times on 27 April: We… find it easier, in these confused times, to admire physical bravery than moral courage — the courage of the life of the mind, or of public figures. A man in a cowboy hat vaults a fence to help Boston bomb victims while others flee…
Perhaps Israel should sue Google for anti-Semitism
Israel’s response to this mundane and necessary decision by Google tells us much about the attitude of the Zionist state to any company or anybody who accepts Palestinians as human beings: Internet search giant, Google, has recognised the Palestinians’ upgraded UN status, placing the name “Palestine” on its search engine instead of “Palestinian Territories”. The…
Reporting tips for Murdoch’s Australian over Palestine, BDS and Gaza
Fair journalism is hard, isn’t it? Getting all the facts, putting them into sentences and writing them down accurately. I’m tired just thinking about it. The following article appears in today’s Murdoch’s Australian. The selectivity of the piece is startling but unsurprising: The NSW Greens have outraged Jewish leaders by organising a fundraiser cruise to…