My following investigation appears in today’s edition of Crikey: The Middle East “quagmire” is largely “the fault of Israel”, according to Paul Howes, national secretary of the Australian Workers Union (AWU). In an interview with Crikey, the author of Confessions of a Faceless Man said that he was a “critical friend of Israel” and the…
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Being young, cool and cluey means embracing Palestine
The idea of supporting Israel and occupation simply doesn’t wash with many young Americans, including Jews, and the generational split is growing (see here). Who wants to defend settlements and apartheid? Years ago, backing Israel was cool. These days, with the internet and satellite TV, increasing numbers of people know that Palestinian rights is one…
How dare critics challenge the “glorious heritage” of Zionism?
Zionist democracy exists only to serve groups and individuals who back the glorious Jewish state. A real democracy both allows and supports robust dissent; Israel is not that country: A number of MKs are objecting to the ongoing artists’ boycott of the soon-to-open Ariel culture center, and on Saturday MK Yariv Levin (Likud) suggested the…
The colony building business is making less business sense
Another victory in the growing BDS movement: Africa Israel, the flagship company of Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev, announced this week that it is no longer involved in Israeli settlement projects and that it has no plans for future settlement activities. Africa Israel subsequently denied that this was a political decision. However, in the last few…
Why there cannot be a Zionist loyalty oath
The following statement was released on 31 October by the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network: On October 10, 2010, the Israeli government proposed a bill obligating non-Jewish naturalized citizens to swear loyalty to a “Jewish and democratic state.” The International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) deplores this attempt to demand recognition of Israel as a Jewish state…
New York Times editors get a nice tour of the West Bank by colonists
Because the New York Times really needs more riding instructions from the Zionist establishment: New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. and the influential daily’s executive editor Bill Keller visited the West Bank city of Ariel on Wednesday. According to the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, the American executives were given a tour of a number of…
Wolfensohn: “no-one particularly likes the Jews, no-one particularly likes the Palestinians”
James Wolfensohn, former World Bank President and former head of the Middle East Quartet, was on Australian TV last night talking about Israel/Palestine and the message was clear; America is Israel’s lawyer: Jim Wolfensohn, I’d like to focus mainly on your personal experience as George W. Bush’s handpicked choice as special enjoy of quartet to…
Western politicians prefer to ignore Israel’s inherent racism
My following article appears in today’s Sydney Morning Herald: Imagine a mainstream Australian politician saying that Aborigines should be banned from leading tourists around Uluru because they might “present anti-Australian positions” to visitors. The outcry would be furious. But a bill is currently before the Israeli Knesset, led by a parliamentarian from the “moderate” Kadima…
Aussie Zionist leader is mates with radical settler and peace is never on their minds
Major Australian Zionist lobbyist Albert Dadon likes to move in the halls of power, romancing the political and media elite. It’s not hard to impress when junkets are arranged to enjoy the wonders of occupying Israel. And now this: The Palestinians are saying one thing in English while contradicting themselves in Arabic, according to Palestinian…
Baltzer speaks on Palestinian rights
I spent time last week here in Sydney with visiting American Jewish writer and activist Anna Baltzer, a passionate advocate for the Palestinian cause; quiet, determined and strongly calling for BDS and a one-state solution. She was interviewed tonight on ABC PM Radio: MARK COLVIN: It’s only weeks since the launch of the latest round…