Following last week’s forced evacuation from Hebron of fundamentalist Zionist settlers – a necessary act, not least to give the impression that Judeo-Nazis are not beyond the law and threaten the very lives of moderate Israelis and Palestinians – we’re now expected to feel sorry for these thugs: We are dealing with the extreme Left…
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Will Jewish terror thrive?
This Haaretz editorial is necessarily direct towards the seeming unwillingness of the Jewish state to control its radical Jewish fringe: The time has come to cease the vague characterizations and call a spade a spade. We are not dealing with “marginal groups,” “extremists who have gone out of control,” and other attempts at verbal acrobatics…
Obama: new neo-con?
My latest New Matilda column is about the incoming Obama administration and its likely foreign policy: Will Obama resist Zionist pressure and reveal his progressive side on Israel? Writing from the US, Antony Loewenstein isn’t optimistic I’m currently in the US on a book tour and I’ve been struck by the ubiquitous belief that Obama…
How much longer to wait?
An encouraging sign, from the International Herald Tribune’s Roger Cohen, that the Jewish state is dealing itself out of a viable future: Imagine Ehud Olmert, the outgoing Israeli prime minister, saying this to Barack… Obama: “The United States has been wrong to write Israel a blank check every year; wrong to turn a blind eye to…
How to define a robust Jewish chat
After a wonderful day in upstate New York with leading American Jewish dissident writer and blogger Phil Weiss – a generous, warm-hearted, critical yet optimistic man – I left feeling strangely empowered. Despite all the attempts by the Zionist lobby and its courtiers, the horrendous reality in Palestine is becoming clearer to the world by…
The Zionist reality on daily life
What is life like for Palestinians in the occupied territories? One of the finest chroniclers of the conflict, Jonathan Cook, explains.
The modern descendants of Hitler
Settler Nazis continue to cause chaos (and the global Jewish Diaspora remains silent): Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian ambulances in the West Bank village of Dier Esteyah on Wednesday, according to witnesses. Red Crescent ambulances were parked in the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Wednesday when settlers wrote provocative slogans, such as “Death to…
Shifting sands of Israel/Palestine
My following talk was presented today to a full room at Harvard University: Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government/Centre for Middle Eastern Studies ME Forum, 24 November 2008 The Shifting Sands of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: An Australian Perspective Antony Loewenstein Australian Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, speaking in March this year at a United Israel…
Spreading the word in the US
After years of talking in Australia and overseas about the Israel/Palestine conflict and internet repression, I’m about to commence a US… speaking tour. My first presentation early next week, at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government/Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, is on “The Shifting Sands of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: An Australian Perspective“: A critical examination of…
When a voice is so important
Gideon Levy, writing in Haaretz, perfectly skewers the profound failures of the Israeli left: The Israeli peace camp was born in sin and died because of a lie: It was born as the legitimate son of the sin of occupation, and died the illegitimate son of the lie that “there is no partner” with whom…