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Aussie mainstream media needs to understand that Israeli democracy is a contradiction
Following this week’s Marrickville BDS decision, today’s Sydney Morning Herald publishes an editorial that shows a profound ignorance of the conflict. The word “democracy” is thrown about so carelessly when describing Israel that many in the West continue living under the illusion that Israel proper gives full rights to its citizens. Arabs are profoundly discriminated…
BDS keeps seeping into the US (while Israel fiddles with settlers)
This will only increase in frequency while the Zionist state continues to occupy Palestinian land. And how many young American Jews look at Israel and like what they see? Less every day: On Friday night [in Washington], a favorite cafe among progressives, Busboys and Poets, gathered letters to Gazans; the next aid flotilla in May…
Marrickville madness over BDS but Palestine rights aren’t forgotten
I was present at last night’s Marrickville council meeting over BDS. It was a circus. Hundreds of people attended. Protesters, Zionists, students, unionists, Palestinians, Arabs, citizens. Countless numbers of people couldn’t fit into the council chambers (luckily I was inside for proceedings). In the end, the BDS didn’t succeed but in many ways this wasn’t…
Australian media incapable of hearing Palestinians
How to define farce? The Australian media’s coverage of Israel/Palestine and BDS. Palestinians and Arabs remain largely absent from discussion, lest they infect people’s minds. Instead, today we have a litany of articles that say nothing about the Middle East apart from craven white people desperate to pray at the altar of Zionist “democracy”. The…
Tell me Zionists; which Jews are acceptable for you?
The illusion is coming apart; the idea that Jews in general love and back Israel, no matter what. Jewish Voice for Peace is a US-based progressive, Jewish group aiming to expand debate on Israel/Palestine. Of course the usual suspects don’t like it one bit. For them, Israel is beyond debate and the glorious occupation and…
Where are the Arab voices in Aussie BDS debate?
My following story appears in today’s edition of Crikey: A few weeks after the start of the Iraq war in 2003, I talked to a senior editor at The Sydney Morning Herald and asked her why there were basically no Iraqi voices in the paper, either for or against the conflict. “I never thought of…
How many times does a corporate reporter need to visit Israel to repeat its talking points?
Here we go again. A little game; how many Western “journalists” and politicians continually visit Israel on a propaganda tour? Answer; most of them. In 2009 I wrote about the Sydney Morning Herald’s international editor Peter Hartcher visiting the Zionist state and being more than happy to speak to a very select collection of people,…
“Liberal” Zionist refuses to condemn occupation (and Murdoch provides platform)
It’s a new week and that can only mean more articles in Murdoch’s Australian on Israel/Palestine, BDS and damning anybody who dares speak up for Palestinians. The last weeks have seen a barrage of increasingly hysterical pieces attacking the NSW Greens for endorsing BDS and not uncritically loving Israel without thought or care. Today sees…
Memo to Aussie Greens over BDS; focus on occupation, occupation and occupation
While the Murdoch press wants public debate over Israel/Palestine to focus on everything except what Israel is doing to the Palestinians, it’s vital to move the goal-posts. Sydney University’s head of Peace and Conflict Studies Dr Jake Lynch writes how in Crikey: Some of the NSW Greens are peeling away, as leaves from a lettuce,…