Jewish American blogger Richard Silverstein points out a piece in Details magazine from last year that discusses the role of American Jews moving to Israel and becoming settler fundamentalists: Later this year, 21-year-old Ephraim Khantsis will pack a couple of suitcases, say good-bye to his mother, leave his home in Brooklyn, and move to Israel.…
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How Aussies are helping Zionist fanatics in the West Bank
The Australian connection to backing and funding Israel’s fundamentalist settler movement.
When apartheid Israel is simply a term of truth
Henry Siegman, former national director of the American Jewish Congress and of the Synagogue Council of America, The Nation, 25 January: Israel’s relentless drive to establish “facts on the ground” in the occupied West Bank, a drive that continues in violation of even the limited settlement freeze to which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu committed himself,…
Do Americans want their money to fund radical Jews in the West Bank?
The New York newspaper Forward asks a question with a seemingly easy answer: Can Tax-Free Donations Fund Settlements?
If America wants to push partition in Palestine, they’ve got a problem
US Middle East envoy George Mitchell talks to American interviewer Charlie Rose and implies that indefinite occupation is bringing Israel to disaster (if one believes in a two-state solution, that is). “Jewish democracy” in Israel can only be achieved at the barrel of a gun: Charlie Rose: And how much incentive is there to do…
Burn, settlement products, burn
Symbolism matters (even if the key players are on the US payroll): Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on Tuesday took part in a demonstration in which products made in Jewish settlements were burned. On Sunday the Palestinian PM said the future Palestinian state will be “free of fences and of settlements.” In a conference held…
Zionists continue to be alert and alarmed about IAJV
I co-founded Independent Australian Jewish Voices (IAJV) nearly three years ago. Since then, our achievements have been modest, but the key aim has always been to expand public debate over the Middle East and show to the wider community that not all Jews back Israeli apartheid in the occupied territories. It’s therefore pretty amusing to…
Counting Palestinians worldwide
Some facts and figures: The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) said Tuesday that 10.9 million Palestinians in the world by the end of 2009, more than half in Diaspora and about 36.7% in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. By… the end of 2009, PCBS said in a press release, … about 4.0 million Palestinians…
What South Africa taught today’s Israeli state
Akiva Eldar in Haaretz discusses the tragic reality of what Zionism has created in the occupied territories: One of the myths among whites in South Africa was that “blacks want to throw us into the sea.” Many of apartheid’s practices were formally based on security, mostly those involving restrictions on movement. Thus, for example, at…
Obama hates Israel and all that she stands for, says hardline Zionist
The settler organisation Women in Green hosted an evening recently with Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick. Two believers in the concept of Greater Israel and disliking Arabs. A match made in heaven, really. Here’s the Women in Green report of that peace-loving event: “Obama and Israel” was the topic of Caroline Glick’s talk on Friday…