An instructive tale of how Zionist spokespeople in the American media are losing power in the new, online discourse.
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A joint Jewish and Arab party to move forward in I/P
Former Zionist leader and speaker of the Knesset Avraham Burg has a long, recent history of condemning the decline of Israel into a racist and discriminatory country. Now he believes a new political party is needed to almost save Israel from itself: The party Israel Equality (Shivyon Yisrael ) – with the acronym Shai in…
Israel should be for Jews, mainly
In a New York Jewish newspaper Forward editorial on Israel’s attempt to exclude non-Orthodox converted Jews from full acceptance in Israel – and note the Jewish Diaspora’s outrage over this issue but little care about the millions of Palestinians who can’t exercise their legitimate right of return – see how Zionists view their holy land:…
Aslan says 2-state solution is dead, and Indyk calls him a liar
My following article is published today on US website Mondoweiss: “The future of relations with the Muslim world” was the UN-sponsored event hosted at the New York Times building in central Manhattan on 21 July. Filled with journalists from Egypt, China and Turkey and the foreign policy establishment, roughly 150 people came to hear Roger…
Australian politicians love to embrace apartheid Israel
The utterly depressing state of mainstream Australian politics on the Middle East. Beyond embarrassing. Stuck in a bad Zionist lobby time-warp from 1948. Somebody, save us: The three major candidates contesting the seat of Wentworth in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs, addressed the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies plenum last night”¦J-Wire filmed the event. Addressing…
BDS starts knocking on American doors
The growing momentum of BDS hits the US, the most key country of all:
Sri Lanka gives Israel some fighting tips for killing
Sri Lanka is a rogue state that refuses to investigate its own crimes against the Tamil people. One would therefore think that endorsement of Israel’s “war on terror” is the last thing Tel Aviv would want. Then again, Sri Lanka’s new ambassador to Israel – a former chief of staff in Colombo’s army – is…
How Jewish are most anti-Zionists?
An interesting report in Tablet on a recent conference of the first major meeting of the US-based International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network. Whereas in the past, many anti-Zionists were soundly secular, today a growing number of non-Zionists are proudly religious but condemn the actions of the Jewish state.
Britain moves towards insulating Israel from even a light tap on the knuckles
The role of a real democracy is to protect the innocent and prosecute the guilty. When it comes to Israel, however, Western states are almost expected to give them a pass. We’re fighting terrorism, you see, and pesky civilians are simply getting in the way. Case in point: Tzipi Livni on Thursday welcomed a legislative…
What the web has done for honest Mid-East debate (eg. helped)
Following the desperate smear of neo-con Lee Smith against dissenting bloggers on the Middle East, two leading writers weigh in. Max Blumenthal explains how how frustrating it must be Zionists who simply can’t believe that their views are no longer sacrosant. And Israel Lobby co-author Steve Walt explains that the blogosphere has truly liberated debate…