The following statement was just released by The Freedom Theatre in the occupied Palestinian lands: On the morning of April 15, 2009, an unknown individual set fire to The Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp, Occupied Palestine. The main door of the theatre was completely burned, but the fire did not spread inside the building…
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Stone the journalist doing his job
Stop the presses! A British journalist states the bleeding obvious: The BBC Trust yesterday called into question the corporation’s reporting of the most sensitive news story of modern times, publishing findings that the BBC Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen, had breached guidelines on accuracy and impartiality. The ruling will be seized upon by campaigners who…
What me worry, this money is sweet
War criminal Tony Blair, here in the West Bank, telling the Palestinians that they should get used to permanent occupation because he has no clue (or credibility) how to truly do anything to change their situation.
Triggering a necessary clash
The Israel Lobby co-author Stephen Walt has a few helpful tips for the Obama administration in pressuring Israel to improve its behaviour. Such as: In the past, the United States has often pressed other states to upgrade their own ties with Israel.… If pressure is needed, however, the United States could try a different tack.… …
Yes, the occupation matters, neo-cons
A senior former official in the Bush administrations writes in the Washington Post that Israel’s settlement project in the West Bank isn’t an impediment to peace and Obama shouldn’t pressure the Jewish state to stop it. And pigs might fly.
Come on, join the right side of history
This is something one doesn’t see every day. The former editor of the Australian Jewish News, Dan Goldberg, writes what Jews should be acknowledging this Passover: The bitter truth — hard as it may be to write, horrible as it is to admit — is that the occupation has brutalised us, corrupted our children and…
A colonial project supported by us
Rami G. Khouri, The Daily Star, April 4: It is not clear to most of the world, beyond the hypocrisy-democracy heartland in Tel Aviv and corners of the West, why the Palestinians are asked to show strict compliance with past agreements and a priori formally recognize the enemy before any talks can start, while no…
Jews are getting the image of being afraid of debate
My following article appears on the leading US blog Mondoweiss: Jeff Halper, Israeli/American peace activist, retired anthropologist and head of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), writes in his recent book, An Israeli in Palestine, of the moment he became a “critical Israeli”: “I first became aware of being an ”˜Israeli in Palestine’ on…
Foreign Correspondents’ Association
Prominent Australian journalist and writer Antony Loewenstein was Guest Speaker at an FCA Newsmaker Luncheon in Sydney on Thursday 26 March 2009. Antony’s address focused on the ways in which most of the Western media gloss over the realities of the Israel/Palestine conflict, not least the Israeli occupation, and related topics. This was a wonderful…
Time is running out for Israel to adapt
My latest column for New Matilda is about the realities facing the incoming Israeli government: The ground is slowly shifting in international attitudes towards Israeli policies. But the longer Israel delays changing direction, the fewer options it will have, writes Antony Loewenstein As the new Israeli Government under Benyamin Netanyahu begins its tenure, a small…