Who said nobody is making money from illegally occupying another people’s land? The price of property in the West Bank is rocketing beyond the reach of most local business and homeseekers, pushed up by a weak dollar and Israeli control of large chunks of the territory, according to a World Bank report published Thursday.
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Political vaudeville
My latest New Matilda column is about the forthcoming US election: Vacuous coverage of the US election has only skimmed the surface of the economic and foreign policy challenges facing the next President, argues Antony Loewenstein Mainstream media debate over the forthcoming US election has been fixated on the trivial rather than the substantive. Foreign…
The daily Jewish pain
Gideon Levy, Haaretz, October 16: It’s routine under the occupation: On any night soldiers are liable to raid any house in the territories and do as they wish. Sometimes it ends with nothing, a futile search. Sometimes it ends with arrests. It always involves great fear and sometimes even death, as in the tragic case…
Come visit fascists on your spring break
This is news bound to warm the hearts of Palestinians everywhere: Israel’s settlers have launched a well-funded public relations campaign to change their image by luring vacationing Israelis to the disputed West Bank. “Disputed”? Actually, the entire West Bank is Palestinian land, stolen by the Jewish state to construct irreversible “facts on the ground”. International…
The time to speak is now
A Time to Speak Out was released this week by Verso Books. It collects a number of dissident Jewish voices from Britain and the world who challenge the dominant Zionist narrative around Israel and the Palestinians and the necessity of creating an alternative Judaism, one not defined by occupation. I have a chapter in the…
How some Israelis get off
Just another day in a life of humiliation for the Palestinians in the West Bank at the hands of the IDF.
Making peace with only one side
The Independent’s Robert Fisk, in his regular Saturday column, highlights the unspoken reality of last week’s Vice Presidential debate: Palestinians ceased to exist in the United States on Thursday night. Both Joe Biden and Sarah Palin managed to avoid the use of that poisonous word. “Palestine” and “Palestinians” – that most cancerous, slippery, dangerous concept…
Widening the debate down under
As a co-founder of Independent Australian Jewish Voices, the following email was just sent out to our list: Dear friends, Since we were last in touch, we’ve been making efforts with other groups to organise visiting speakers along the lines we had indicated. We would like to inform you of our plans. Jeff Halper, a…
Besieged from the inside?
My latest article for New Matilda discusses the troubles ahead for Israel: Radical Zionists made gains under Ehud Olmert, but their actions are pushing Israel towards catastrophe. The new Prime Minister must stop the settlers, writes Antony Loewenstein In mid-September, during the dying days of his leadership, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert boldly stated that…
A complete lack of feeling
A slice of daily life in Palestine under the Israeli jackboot (written by one of the finest journalists in that country, Gideon Levy): Nothing helped. Not the pleas, not the cries of the woman in labor, not the father’s explanations in excellent Hebrew, nor the blood that flowed in the car. The commander of the…