Palestinian MP Haneen Zoabi (interviewed on Radio National Breakfast on Friday) spoke to ABC Radio PM last night. This took place before a well-attended event at New South Wales Parliament House last night to commemorate 61 years since the Nakba of Palestinian dispossession. Zoabi was the key speaker, in front of parliamentarians and members of…
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A Sydney paper starts opening its eyes
A senior journalist at the Sydney Morning Herald tells me that the relatively new editor is keen to show to the Zionist lobby that he can’t be intimidated. The last months have been an interesting ride. Hardly revolutionary but a noticeable shift. First an editorial in March telling Jews to accept wider views on the…
When the people are forced to act
A letter to the Norwegian Government Pension Fund sent by countless Israel human rights groups: May 14, 2009 The Council on Ethics Norwegian Government Pension Fund Government of Norway Dear Members of the Council on Ethics, We, Israeli organizations, comprised of Jewish and Palestinian women and men and dedicated to building a just peace and…
Let’s get the priorities right
A Palestinian in Bethlehem tells the Independent his thoughts after the Pope’s visit: I want the wall to come down. The right of return we can talk about later.
Why can’t we keep on building settlements, asked the child?
Interesting notes from Israel’s Maariv newspaper on the reception in Europe to Israel’s thug-in-chief Avigdor Lieberman: Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman arrived yesterday in London for a series of political meetings. He is to meet today with British Foreign Secretary David Miliband. In his previous round of meetings in Europe, the Israeli foreign minister tried to…
That familiar apartheid ring
There’s another great letter in today’s Australian newspaper in response to yesterday’s smear of Israel critics: I don’t think the blame for identifiying Israel as an apartheid state can be laid exclusively at the door of the Australian “hard-left” It is only seven years since Michael Ben-Yair, a former Israeli attorney-general, wrote: “In effect, we…
Time to welcome open debate
Following yesterday’s article in the Australian newspaper by two supposed leftist academics praising Israel, my following letter appears in the paper today: Israel recent war against the Gazan people has caused many people around the world, including Jews, to reassess their support for Israel. With countless men, women and children murdered and the illegal use…
If you spend it, deal with the ramifications
Former adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Eldad Yaniv, writes a very odd column in Haaretz in the form of a letter to Obama: So use the stick on Netanyahu, but give us the carrot. Go online and learn that alleged finance guru Netanyahu dumped the state budget last week and told the treasury…
Blame those leftist extremists, please
Long-time supporters of Israel are having a tough time at the moment. War crimes were committed in Gaza during the recent war. The prospects of a two-state solution are beyond grim. Western-led tensions between Hamas and Gaza are real. The new Israeli government has no intention of seriously pushing for peace, only worsening the West…
Fear in the lobby
My latest column for New Matilda is about the Zionist lobby and its hopefully stunted plans for the Middle East: Public and private noises from the Obama administration have the Israel lobby spooked. Now they’re getting ready for the fight of their lives, writes Antony Loewenstein Last week in Washington 7000 delegates from America’s most…