How to show solidarity with Palestinians under occupation seems increasingly clear; civil society is calling for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel. Here’s an interesting piece in Haaretz about a new documentary that tackles the complex issue of a cinema in the West Bank town of Jenin and the inevitable political debates: Yet the technical…
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Overland Journal tackles “After Zionism”
The following review of After Zionism by Jeff Sparrow appears in Overland Journal: After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine Antony Loewenstein and Ahmed Moor (eds) SAQI In the media, particularly in Australia, the ”˜two-state solution’ to the Palestine/Israel crisis – that is to say, the proposition that peace depends upon the creation of…
Australian Zionist lobby keen to brain-wash young student leaders in Israel
My following investigation appears in New Matilda today: An all-expenses paid trip to Israel? Why not? The Zionist lobby has been taking student leaders to Israel for ‘political education’. Antony Loewenstein reports on the effort to recruit young allies Zionist lobby trips to Israel, taking politicians, journalists and trade union leaders, have been occurring from…
Just another day of typical Israeli violence against Palestinians in Hebron
Soldiers out of military uniform were caught on camera on Tuesday afternoon assaulting a Palestinian man at Checkpoint 56 in Tel Rumeida, Old City of Hebron.
Read this to understand the reality of Israel’s “Jewish and democratic” occupation
A striking piece, in Yediot Ahronoth, translated for Peace Now: It is doubtful if this was the solution envisioned by the leaders of the social protest when they went out to demonstrate over the cost of housing in Israel.… But the impossible real estate prices and the unfreezing of land over the Green Line have…
“Better Place” reducing fossil fuel use while exploiting occupied Palestinian land
Following yesterday’s open letter to the Australian Greens about not working with Israeli company Better Place or other Israeli firms that talk green but in reality are complicit in the occupation, I just found this recent piece on the Green Car Reports website. The writer clearly states that the company is operating in the occupied…
An open letter to the Australian Greens about Israeli settlements and green-washing
The following open letter has been sent today to every Greens MP in the country and is being circulated widely on social media and in the public (and a petition… to back the campaign): An open letter to The Australian Greens Party The Greens have since their foundation been a party that supports justice and the…
Trouble in hasbara paradise
When senior British spokespeople are starting to speak out against the Jewish state, things are clearly getting desperate. The Guardian reports: The British ambassador to… Israel… has said international support for the Jewish state among those in the political mainstream is eroding, driven by settlement expansion in the West Bank and continued restrictions on Gaza. There is…
Israeli export: lessons in isolation
The Jerusalem Post reports on the latest lessons the Zionist state are giving the world. What inspiration: A growing number of countries are flocking to Israel to study border security as the Defense Ministry works to complete the construction of a physical and technological barrier along the Egyptian border. In August, a delegation from India…