The following letter appears in today’s Sydney Morning Herald: Robert Magid’s letter (March 18) justifying his decision to suppress an ad for Professor Jeff Halper’s speaking tour in The Australian Jewish News is a classic of smearing by association. He brings up all the bogymen calculated to upset his target audience and therefore make his…
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We never signed up for this kind of Israel
Israel’s new Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman – given the appropriate expression, “racist”, by Robert Fisk – is causing some concern with Israel’s Diaspora. New York writer Anne Roiphe: We here in America are waiting as of this writing for a government to emerge in Jerusalem and most of us keep on hoping that its shape…
Demolishing arguments
The following letters appear in today’s Sydney Morning Herald: Mick Weiss (Letters, March 17) repeats the myth that the Israeli Government demolishes only the houses of suicide bombers. In fact, tens of thousands of Palestinian houses have been demolished in the occupied areas since 1967. The occupants have been forcibly removed to make way for…
Isolation may just teach them a lesson
John Greyson, a prominent Canadian filmmaker, has recently turned down an offer to premiere his film Fig Trees at the Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival, in support of BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions). Greyson is… a member of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid. His recent letter to the festival director is below: Dear Yair, After much…
Of course hardliners don’t want to discuss the occupation
The forthcoming Durban II, the UN’s anti-racism conference, has been slammed and boycotted by the US, Israel and the Zionist establishment for its alleged obsession with the Jewish state. But there are alternative views, such as this one by Ian Williams, author, journalist and pundit: Those calling for a boycott include John Bolton, George Bush’s…
What her death still represents
This week marks the sixth anniversary of the death of American peace activist Rachel Corrie by an Israeli bulldozer. Her mother spoke recently on the Rafah/Gaza border about her daughter’s legacy: You asked about Rachel and how people respond to her here, and I—most everybody, at least if they—you know, they know her name when…
Halper supports peace
The following letter appears in today’s Sydney Morning Herald: I never heard the PM program to which Athol Morris refers (Letters, March 14-15), but I did hear Jeffrey Halper interviewed by Fran Kelly on the ABC Radio National Breakfast program on March 11. Professor Halper never mentioned being against the existence of a Jewish state…
Jewish paper believes in the concept of an echo chamber
The Australian Jewish News publishes the following editorial this week: A vocal critic of Israel’s policy of demolishing Palestinian houses is currently on a tour of Australia. Professor Jeff Halper, an American-born retired Israeli academic, coordinates the Israeli Committee Against Housing Demolitions (ICAHD), which attacks the practice of demolishing Palestinian homes. There is an important…
This is how Israel is seen
Today we stand in solidarity with individuals who challenge the military might of the Israeli military and illegal occupation of the West Bank: Israeli armed forces and border police used the cover of the war against Hamas in Gaza to reintroduce the firing of .22 rifle bullets – as well as the extensive use of…
How to kill a people silently
The brutal, largely unseen effects, of the occupation: Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza have fragmented health services, according to a new study, due to the restrictions imposed upon people by Israeli security forces, poor management, and a growing population. The study is the product of the World Health Organisation (WHO), and includes contributions…