The Middle East is in turmoil and yet here’s the Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd, speaking a few days ago in Greece, on what he thinks the region should look like. Nearly everything is reactive and the “peace process” between Israel and the Palestinians should continue as if it’s nearly achieved resolution. Somebody should tell…
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Why Macy Gray should not play Tel Aviv; occupation rules
Max Blumenthal has become one of the leading American Jewish voices against Israeli oppression.
So maybe Israel simply isn’t worth it
Magnes Zionist with beautiful poetry: In fact, I would argue that the ambivalence that some Jews are feeling [towards Egyptian democracy] can itself be turned into an argument against a Jewish state. For if the price to pay for a Jewish state is acquiescing in tyranny and injustice for reasons of realpolitik – as Israel…
Israelis enjoying themselves shows the importance of BDS
Here’s a tip for the Israelis who made this almost comical anti-BDS video. Featuring people having fun in Israel utterly misses the point. Increasing numbers of people globally are boycotting Israel for this very reason; fun-loving Israelis are loving life while Palestinians are brutalised down the road in the West Bank and Gaza under Israeli…
Power to the Egyptian people in song
Don’t tell Washington or Israel; the Egyptian people don’t care what you want in their country:
Finally, what Washington cares about in Arab world; maintaining Zionism
At least the New York Times and Obama administration are honest; for them, Egypt is all about Israel, Israel and Israel: The demonstrations against President Hosni Mubarak’s government in Egypt are rocking the relationship between the United States and its most important Arab ally. But they are also rocking an even more fundamental relationship for…
Better PR won’t help Israel and nor should it
This newly released video, for a campaign called Take Back Zionism, will do nothing for Israel’s image: When will these people learn? You won’t be taken seriously until you address the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, fundamentalist rabbis and settlers and discrimination against Israeli Arabs. Featuring pretty young things in the US is…
Standing with the Egyptian people in Sydney
I was there today, in the heart of Sydney, on a sweltering day showing solidarity with the millions of Egyptians demanding change. No to Mubarak. No to Israeli/US backing of Arab dictatorships: Hundreds of demonstrators have staged an emotion-charged rally in Sydney demanding that beleaguered Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stand down. In a passionate outpouring…
Not all Jews want to embrace Arab dictators
Jewish Voice for Peace, a US-based group, is starting to be heard in a big way. The New York Times covers them below. Furthermore, note the contrast to mainstream Zionist groups, backing repression because it supposedly benefits Israel. That really helps the brand, people: Hundreds of people, mostly Arab-Americans, are expected to gather Saturday in…
Jews don’t have a monopoly on victimhood?
Reading some in the Israeli press, you would think the Egyptian uprisings are all about Israel and maintaining its fiction of “democracy” in the Middle East. In other words, democracy for Jews but hell for Arabs. Bradley Burston in Haaretz outlines the well-worn Zionist lines (repeated ad nauseum by the Zionist lobby and many Jews…