Growing numbers of Israelis want second passport

Because, writes Gideon Levy in Haaretz, the Zionist state is becoming an increasingly intolerant place where Jewish extremism is the mainstream: Passports? If the Palestinian people already had one real passport, maybe the Israelis wouldn’t need two. If Israel were to try at long last to be accepted in its region, with all that entails,…

Latest BDS action; Estee Lauder complicit in dispossessing Palestinians

International activists today occupied a Greek branch of luxury cosmetics store Estee Lauder in protest against its chairman’s involvement with Israeli ethnic cleansing and occupation in Palestine. Video One: Art Activists Plant Trees in Luxury Cosmetics Store linked to Israeli Land Grabs from LandAnnexation Society on Vimeo.

America’s role in the Arab world should be finished

Robert Fisk is right: This month, in the Middle East, has seen the unmaking of the President of the United States. More than that, it has witnessed the lowest prestige of America in the region since Roosevelt met King Abdul Aziz on the USS Quincy in the Great Bitter Lake in 1945. While Barack Obama…

Palestine rises while Israel lobby grumbles into its beer

While the Australian Zionist lobby continues to attack anybody who dares challenge the Israeli government (or settlements, or the siege on Gaza or Zionism in general) – AIJAC slams me for my recent appearances at the Sydney Writer’s Festival; yes, I dared talk about not believing in a racially discriminatory Jewish state – the Economist…

Palestine’s Gandhi: Omar Barghouti, BDS and international law

My following article is published today in Overland journal and was co-written with John Docker and Ned Curthoys: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. – Mahatma Gandhi Israel is creating a kind of moral schizophrenia in world Jewry. In the outside world, the welfare of…

Gaza flotilla 2 set to sail and Australians are involved

The following statement was released yesterday: On the eve of first anniversary of the deadly Israeli attack on the 2010 international Flotilla to break the siege of Gaza, Australian participants reiterated their determination to join the second Flotilla, which will set sail for Gaza at the end of June. “We welcome Egyptian moves to partially…

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