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Hugging Israel so tight the poor little dear will just need money to fix the problem
While students in Gaza continue being blocked to study outside the Strip simply because they’re students (thank you democratic Israel), now and then the reality of unquestioned Western support for Zionism seeps into the mainstream. Even to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. Not that he suggests any serious pressure should be applied on Israel…
Supporting BDS and Palestinian rights as a Jew
An open and frank debate about BDS against Israel in Australia is long overdue. Crikey blog This Blog Harms invited five people to write 1000 words on the issue. This is my contribution: The logic of… boycott, divestment and sanctions… (BDS) didn’t appear to me immediately. When my first book,… My Israel Question, was released in 2006, the…
What BDS is doing to Zionist minds
American blogger Richard Silverstein offers… a revealing snap-shot of how the Israeli government and its US army are fighting BDS in the heart of Brooklyn. Smell the fear (not about never-ending apartheid in the West Bank but endlessly bad PR for Zionism).
What is happening to Israel on a daily basis is extremism with Western support
Gideon Levy in Haaretz: We always knew that a few years without an external threat could strain the delicate seams: When the guns go silent, the demons roar. But no one predicted such an outburst of demons of every kind, all at once. The assault on the existing order is an all-out war, on every…
How GOP candidates show they love Jews and Israel so very much
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Growing numbers of Jews wake up to reality; Israel isn’t good for us
Philip Weiss explains on Mondoweiss: Israel isn’t good for the Jews anymore. That’s the news from New York. It happened in the last week, or the last two years. A feeling has taken root deep in the American Jewish community that Israel is hurting us, hurting our standing in the world and our future. The…
When former IDF prison guards even realise Zionist apartheid is here
The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg is a little worried that his beloved Jewish state has an apartheid problem: I think we’re only a few years away, at most, from a total South-Africanization of this issue. And if Israelis believe that the vast majority of American Jews — their most important supporters in the entire world —…
Rick Perry, Christian Zionism on crack over Israel
Some would Perry is simply being honest. Successive US Presidents have condemned colonies in the West Bank and done nothing but enable them:
This is the puerile level of Zionists pushing for two-state “solution”
The One Voice campaign is left to using a washed up Seinfeld character to support a Zionist state: