The front page of this week’s Australian Jewish News features a picture of Theodore Herzl, a headline that reads, “Unite behind the blue and white” and the lines: “Despite facing a barrage of assaults on a daily basis, 150 years after Herzl’s birth and 62 years after the foundation of the state, Israel remains a…
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Insecure Zionism, an ongoing series
Another nail in the coffin of Israeli “democracy”, a fanciful word that always meant discrimination against non-Jews: A new report and billboard campaign launched by Israeli group Im Tirtzu – the Second Zionist Revolution” accuses at least twelve Israeli human rights groups of support for or involvement in the indictment of Israeli officials for serious…
Israel is a sick child with no real interest in recovery, writes Haaretz
In a sad editorial, Haaretz laments the state of the Jewish state: The joy attendant on Israel’s Independence Day traditionally focused on emphasizing the growing list of the young state’s achievements and the sense that the country was progressing toward a better future – one of peace, enhanced physical and existential security, integration into the…
How much do we know about Frank Lowy and his beloved Israel?
In my book My Israel Question I discuss the role of Australian Jewish billionaire Frank Lowy and his closeness to Israel. This story, in Haaretz yesterday, reveals both his unhealthy relationship with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and largely unreported role in supporting the Zionist state: The event on Thursday afternoon at the Auschwitz-Birkenau…
Jews who don’t adore Israel are still good Jews (pass it on)
Tony Karon in The National on Jewish impatience with Israel: The Zionist dream had always been that Israel would be not only the spiritual, but also the political and physical home of the world’s Jews. That dream has faded, largely because it is not shared by a majority of the world’s Jews, who have chosen…
Sri Lanka may not be the best judge of Israeli criminality
Priceless and absurd. For Sri Lanka to call for the end to Israel’s occupation, how about examining its own brutal occupation of Tamil areas in the country’s north and east? Nobody said international relations aren’t based on hypocrisy: Sri Lanka has called on Israel to withdraw from the occupied Palestinian territory saying sustainable peace could…
Standing up for Palestine at Berkeley
Here’s something to inspire us on the first day of a new week:
It’s South Africa all over again
Who says the increasingly vocal campaign to highlight Israel’s “normalisation” efforts isn’t gathering steam? When well-organized hecklers disrupted a recent London performance by the Jerusalem Quartet, the protest resonated far beyond Wigmore Hall, the city’s famous and much loved lunchtime place of pilgrimage for music lovers seeking a break from the hubbub of central London.…
Threats to shut down Haaretz and silence any questions
An important by Jonathan Cook in The National that reveals the depressing state of intellectual debate in Israel. If you aren’t for the state, get out of the country, so the thinking goes. Dissent is frowned upon, to put it mildly: An Arab member of the Israeli parliament is demanding that a newspaper be allowed…
Whatever you do, make sure you keep on saying that Israel is a democracy
Throughout the current Anat Kamm case in Israel – where predictably Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick calls the paper behind the story, Haaretz, a friend of Israel’s enemies and “supporting treason” – Zionists in the West still cling onto the same old myths. Take the New York Forward: There is a larger issue here: the…