There was an intentional Israeli policy of collective punishment against the Gazan people. Mondoweiss co-owner Adam Horowitz tells Democracy Now!: …The Dahiya Doctrine is the war doctrine that Israel first used in the 2006 attack on Lebanon, which basically said that any area that they were receiving fire from, they would consider the entire area…
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Israel hearts apartheid South Africa (how they miss those glory days)
Daniel Blatman, Haaretz: The historical background of the Israeli apartheid state-in-the-making that is emerging before our eyes should be sought in 1967. It is part of a process that has been going on for about 44 years: What started as rule over another people has gradually ripened – especially since the latter part of the…
On Murdoch smearing, the Greens and truth in the Middle East
My following story appears in New Matilda today: News Ltd has had a field day over an NM story about the Greens, including claiming that we misquoted newly elected NSW Greens MP Jamie Parker. Antony Loewenstein responds Last week, New Matilda published a story by me about the Greens and the NSW election campaign. The…
War in Libya pushed by “insufferable” French mini-imperialists
As the war in Libya drags on, this piece in the Daily Beast fully explains the role of French President Sarkozy and the supposed French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy (BHL), a man who loves a good Western-led war to allegedly protect the innocent but he reveals his true side by blindly backing Israel at the expense…
What statement on Sri Lankan crimes does; Tamil victims not forgotten
The recent public campaign against the Galle Literary Festival in Sri Lanka – I signed a statement alongside Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali, Ken Loach and others – was aimed to highlight Colombo’s gross human rights abuses and lack of accountability after the end of the civil war in 2009. PEN is currently holding a series…
Another day of hating Arabs in the Israeli mainstream
Really: Twelfth-grade students from Herzliya’s Hayovel High School took part in a simulated shooting attack in which the targets were figures decked out with the Arab keffiyeh headdress, Haaretz has learned. The incident took place at a military base last week during the annual 12th grade trip. The students were being escorted to a commanders’…
Australian Murdoch press wants to insulate Israel from global move towards Palestinian justice and BDS
It’s a surreal sight. As debate in many Western nations move towards finding ways to hold Israel to account, Australia’s parochial media is desperate to target anybody who dares challenge Israel. Here’s the overseas debate: To boycott or not to boycott? That is the question that growing numbers of American Jews on the left wing…
Desmond Tutu stands up for Palestinian rights
He has just released this letter: Wednesday 30 March 2011 Dear University of Arizona Community, I am writing today to express my wholehearted support of the students in No Más Muertes/No More Deaths humanitarian/migrant-rights group and their institutional statement advocating divestment or business severance from the Caterpillar and Motorola corporations. … I appreciate their insistence for…
ABC News24 on killing Afghan civilians, Assad and ignoring indigenous lessons
Last night I was a guest on ABC TV News24’s The Drum to discuss issues of the day (video here). Foreign issues were front and centre. America’s Kill Team in Afghanistan – US troops murdering civilians for fun – is just the latest example of occupiers in inhospitable lands treating those they’re supposed to protect…
Time in Australia to pile onto anybody who speaks out against Israel
One: While Andrew Robb describes Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s criticisms of the Greens as ‘contrived’, he accuses the Greens of anti-semitism. It is NSW Greens policy to support a boycott of the state of Israel. Senator elect Leigh Rhiannon told online opinion site New Matilda that the Greens could have campaigned better around the NSW…