Please sir, can we buy the bomb?

Yet more revelations that shows Israel as a nation like any other; ruthless and unprincipled: An apartheid-era cabinet minister carried a “nuclear trigger” to South Africa from Israel as part of Pretoria’s efforts to build an atom bomb, according to a report in a Johannesburg newspaper. Two renowned South African journalists have revealed that Eschel…

How long can the Holocaust be used to generate sympathy?

Israeli commentator Eitan Haber has a word of warning to fellow Jews: We thought we deserve everything, after the Holocaust and the six million dead. The world was silent while our grandparents were being burned? Well, the world shall pay. We deserve everything. Yet how come we didn’t realize that one of these days, the…

How South Africa has inspired us all

Hind Awwad, national coordinator of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee, tells Electronic Intifada: It took the South African BDS campaign 25 years to achieve what we achieved in five years. That is what South Africans and anti-apartheid activists tell us. And we see [new tactics] of BDS activities by the young generation…

Let the churches argue over Palestine

A seemingly principled stand on an issue that is generating outrage in ways the corporate media seem unwilling to represent: America’s largest Presbyterian denomination is preparing for a contentious General Assembly next month as delegates will be asked to consider approving a strongly worded report that calls on the U.S. to stop sending billions of…

Inciting race hatred on Murdoch money

A helpful reminder of the kind of hatred that regularly appears in the pages of a leading Murdoch publication. Alan Howe is a senior figure in Melbourne’s Herald Sun newspaper who loves to demean Arabs and praise Israel (free trips to the Jewish state thanks to the Zionist lobby have certainly helped him hone his…

Red Cross calls the Gaza blockade illegal

Israel may be launching a far from independent investigation into the Gaza flotilla massacre but the real issue remains the humanitarian situation in Gaza. The International Red Cross has released a damning report: The serious incidents that took place on 31 May between Israeli forces and activists on a flotilla heading for Gaza once again…

Call JNF by its rightful name (ie. not charity)

Not before time and a campaign that should only grow in years to come: The JNF came under renewed attack this week from anti-Zionists calling for the removal of its charitable status. Veteran activist Uri Davis – author of Israel: An Apartheid State – addressed a “Stop the JNF” meeting organised by the International Jewish…

How to murder the peace activists in Israel

Just another typical day in the state of Israel: Speaking of signs and the commandos, I’ve seen quite a few large banners along the highway that read: “Commando Soldiers, Israel is proud of you!” Public rage against opposing views has reached a boiling point. Last week on my way to a demonstration protesting Israeli action…

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