Israel calls a partial settlement halt – rightly rejected by the Palestinians and only partially praised by J Street, both certainly not helped by the fact that East Jerusalem is excluded from the announcement – and apartheid continues: The human rights organization Yesh Din says not one of the 69 complaints filed during the past…
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Obama may use the UN to pressure Israel?
The Financial Times is one of the strongest global papers on the Middle East conflict. Less spin, more truth telling. Key writer David Gardiner thinks that Barack Obama still has a few cards up his sleeve (this presumes, of course, that Washington actually has any desire to truly pressure Israel and that ain’t clear): Israelis…
Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran (says Jewish historian)
Israeli historian Benny Morris, a man with a serious dislike of Arabs and Iranians, yesterday unloaded in the UK Guardian and urged nothing less than a military strike against the Islamic Republic. Once again, a leading Zionist voice defines his ideology as nothing other than violence and devastation: The talk in Israel, explicit and open…
Products from the West Bank are unacceptable, repeat after me
The creeping acceptance globally that a targeted campaign against apartheid Israel is justified arrives in Australia (or at least a public discussion). Here’s a story from last night’s ABC Radio PM program: MARK COLVIN: The opposition to Israeli settlements in the West Bank has evolved a new tactic — a mounting campaign against settlement companies…
Who really controls the West Bank (hint: it isn’t the Palestinians)
This one line in a Reuters story says it all: [Mahmoud] Abbas, for his part, holds sway in the occupied West Bank, his administration largely propped up by Israel. The “model” for Palestinian independence, indeed.
Illegal, Jewish settlement put to song
Nefesh B’Nefesh is an American/Israeli organisation designed to bring Jews to settle in Israel proper and the Palestinian territories, illegal under international law. It is perhaps no wonder, therefore, that the group has shot this cheesy video to promote themselves (along with a cringe-worthy JTA introduction.) I guess writing about living on Palestinian land isn’t…
BDS is the new anti-Semitism
The issue of targeted boycotts against Israel are growing by the day (see here and here). Muzzlewatch documents just the latest sign of panic within the Zionist establishment in the US. No answer to Zionist expansion and racist policies in Israel? Not to worry, just retreat into a bubble and hope the occupation magically disappears…
All Palestinians around the world must decide the future
British based intellectual Ghada Kharmi, who last visited Australia in 2007, writes that the Palestinian national struggle is facing a seminal moment in its history. Take care, she writes, the future is being written now: The divergence of opinion and the ferment of ideas are indications that at this critical stage in Palestinian history, what…
Liberal, Zionism prevarication allows occupation to continue
Independent Australian Jewish Voices (IAJV), which I co-founded in early 2007, continues to hum along and we have many plans for 2010. A few weeks ago in the Australian Jewish News one-time journalist Michael Visontay – who has form in hand-wringing matters, sometimes feeling terribly pained about something or other in Israel but remaining utterly…
Australian Zionist figure repeats anti J Street propaganda
Dr Ron Weiser, immediate past president of the Zionist Federation of Australia, has written before about the supposed threat J Street poses to Zionist aggression. Here’s his latest gem, again on J Street and his seeming inability to understand why growing numbers of young American Jews are questioning Israel (it’s called decades of occupation and…