The New York Times editorialises about the Middle East with its usual “he said/she said” mentality. Both the Israelis and Palestinians must work towards peace but why the hell should anybody in the Middle East see America and Barack Obama as anything other than a nearly unquestioning friend of Israel? Vice President Joseph Biden Jr.…
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A speaker at the upcoming Auckland Writer’s Festival
The following article by Linda Herrick appears today in the New Zealand Herald: A Sydney writer who describes himself as “an atheist Jewish-Australian political activist” is coming to Auckland in May as part of the international lineup for the Writers and Readers Festival. Antony Loewenstein is the author of My Israel Question, a highly critical…
Radio Adelaide: Discussing Israel’s right of return and its inherent racism
I was interviewed yesterday on Radio Adelaide’s BackStory program: Jewish people throughout the world have an automatic right to Israeli citizenship under Israel’s “Law of Return”. In light of more than seven million Palestinian refugees being denied any right of return to Israel the law is being questioned by prominent Australian Jews.
Israel and Sri Lanka make love in the only way they know how – violently
Two nations with a blatant disregard for minorities and human rights find each other. So beautiful you want to prosecute them in the Hague: Israel supported Sri Lanka throughout in its war against terrorism and now that the war is over the Israeli Government is determined to go for a robust economic co-operation agreement with…
This is how the US deals with its wild child, Israel
Take news from the Middle East in the last 24 hours. Despairing, infuriating and tragic. This: The Palestinians pulled out of a new round of indirect peace talks last night, even before they had begun, as a protest at Israel‘s decision to announce approval for hundreds of new homes in a Jewish settlement in East…
How many in the West know that Jews are allowed to act as they want in the West Bank?
Haaretz reporter Avi Issacharoff writes, in an article headlined, “Israel policy allows settlers to rampage unchecked“, that the West Bank is lawless and mad: In general, the decision-making body in Israel regarding building over the Green Line has become deliberately destructive, and adopted a policy of “ya’ani” (Arabic slang for something which only gives an…
When Jews sing sweet songs to an Arab killer
Jewish extremism in Israel is often dismissed as the rantings of a minority. It is true, only a small percentage of the Israeli population truly hates Arabs, but they receive massive political support and sing songs of praise to mass murderer Baruch Goldstein. Andrew Sullivan is right: Maybe AIPAC will wake up one of these…
Another handy reminder of who runs the Middle East conflict
US Vice President Joe Biden’s trip to Israel has been, in the words of the Daily Beast, “disastrous“: Just as Biden arrived in Israel, the Interior Ministry announced the construction of 1,600 new housing units for Jewish residents in East Jerusalem, a move many, including many in the Obama administration, have interpreted as a deliberate…
Dershowitz urges, “Middle East Apartheid Education Week”
The growing global effectiveness of Israel Apartheid Week is pleasing. Suffice to say, this doesn’t please Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz: Every year at about this time, radical Islamic students—aided by radical anti-Israel professors—hold an event they call “Israel Apartheid Week.” During this week, they try to persuade students on campuses around the world to…
This is what Palestinian resistance looks like today
Jamal Juma’ is the coordinator of the Palestinian grass-roots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign and was released from an Israeli prison on January 12. He writes for the Christian Science Monitor: The Palestinian elected leadership is weak. And even with Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel, the West Bank and Jordan this week, the renewed Middle…