Israeli electric car company Better Place is rightly challenged by activists as being part of Brand Israel. Its human rights record is troubling. Here’s the latest example (via Electronic Intifada) of how these facts are routinely ignored in the name of being green and embracing “start-up Israel”: An Israeli company that builds infrastructure for the…
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Curious, conflicted but important WPost piece on Israeli nuclear weapons
This piece by the Washington Post Ombudsman Patrick Pexton is an important intervention in an issue that receives virtually no mainstream debate. His final paragraph, where he outs his true position and takes the predictable Zionist view that is vital if you want to survive in a corporate publication, is revealing and rather depressing: I…
Australian Zionists fear Israeli group Breaking the Silence and its message on IDF immorality
This is an instructive story of how mainstream Australian Jewish groups are petrified that a) the public will hear critical and truthful views about Israeli behaviour in the West Bank and b) a desire to “protect” Jews from even understanding what Israeli occupation means. A feature appeared in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald last…
Why we need to start imagining today what comes “After Zionism”
My co-editor on the new book, After Zionism, Ahmed Moor, writes in The National: I recently had the opportunity to participate in a panel discussion on Palestine and Israel at the Frontline Club in London. About a hundred people packed into the intimately sized meeting hall to join in the conversation about the one-state solution.…
Palestine Chronicle tackles “After Zionism”
The following piece, by Karen Dabrowska, appears in the Palestine Chronicle: Time has run out for the two-state solution because of the unending and permanent Jewish colonization of Palestinian land. That is the conclusion of Antony Loewenstein and Ahmed Moor the authors of After Zionism, which brings together some of the world’s leading thinkers on…
“After Zionism” co-editor talks more about open space for Middle East debate in Europe
Ahmed Moor writes for Mondoweiss: Antony Loewenstein wrote… about a discussion he participated in in Tel Aviv around our jointly edited anthology,… After Zionism. We were lucky enough to have an opportunity to speak about a one state future with Ghada Karmi and Dimi Reider in London recently. The Frontline Club – a journalistic hub – provided…
Australian audiences wake to see and hear Israeli violence against Palestinian children
Strong story by Ruth Pollard in today’s Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age.
On tour: imagining “After Zionism” in Israel and Palestine
My following essay appears on the American website Mondoweiss today: The drive from East Jerusalem to Tel Aviv takes around one hour. It’s a stinking hot day and I’ve come from Ramallah in mid-August 2012. Despite flying into Ben Gurion airport in the morning I am stopped and initially refused entry by the Israeli border…