The closeness of Israel and apartheid South Africa revealed far more than simple realpolitik. It was about “values”, the belief of maintaining racial superiority over the indigenous population. And now this revelation: Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of…
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Italian supermarkets reject products from Zionist colonies
This is a step by step campaign but watch how growing numbers of global citizens (and corporations) are taking a stand: Following lobbying efforts by the Italian Coalition against Carmel-Agrexco, two major Italian supermarket chains, COOP and Nordiconad, announced the suspension of sales of products from Agrexco, the principal exporter of produce from Israel and…
Finkelstein vs Morris
Russia Today hosts a discussion on Israel/Palestine between American writer Norman Finkelstein and Israeli historian Benny Morris. One believes in seemingly endless war against the Arabs and the other understands the profound destruction of the Zionist state:
Line up for the essential tools of selling Zionism in the modern age
Are you a Zionist and in need of tools to sell the wonderful democracy known as Israel? Concerned that too many people see the Jewish state as an occupier? Hope that finding new tactics will assist the noble act of selling Israel to the world? Rest easy, help has arrived: In 2001, IDC Herzliya students…
Freedom sails into Gaza
Although Israel says it plans to stop this mission, the aim is clear and should be warmly supported: The biggest attempt by international aid groups to break the Israeli siege on the Gaza… Strip has gotten underway. Nine ships under the banner, Freedom Flotilla, began their journey to Gaza on Saturday, despite warnings from Israel that… they…
The crisis within liberal Zionism (not least because occupation now defines Zionism)
Following the much-discussed essay in the New York Review of Books on “saving” liberal Zionism, here’s the relatively liberal Zionist Forward newspaper in an editorial (and note the inability to take real responsibility for decades of Zionist backing for utterly inhumane policies in the occupied territories): Can you be a liberal and a Zionist today?…
Liberal Zionism debates what Judaism should be in the 21st century
I’m coming late to this essay but there’s a long piece in the New York Review of Books by Peter Beinart talking about the failure of American Jewish elites and the wider Zionist community to understand the real effects of blind backing for Israel. Arabs are openly loathed and yet liberal, American Jewry is walking…
The non-existent threat posed by a man in his 80s
A strong editorial in Haaretz this week (I’m a few day’s behind on the news, dear readers, due to tramping and speaking around New Zealand) on Israel’s rejection of Noam Chomsky. We’re still waiting for the outcry from the Zionist Diaspora after this blatantly anti-democratic and stupid Israeli move. Deafening silence? That’s a real change…
Some Western Australian Jews shame themselves…again
This site has covered the extensive and global efforts by some Zionist organisations to block the performance of the play Seven Jewish Children. The latest example was in Perth, Western Australia One of the organisers behind the show sent me the following flyer, handed out by Jewish protestors before the program, in an attempt to…