The National notes Israel’s growing isolation in the UN (of course, Washington’s tight backing is often all that matters): Two unrelated diplomatic upsets have underlined growing impatience with the behaviour of the Israeli government among western countries that are traditionally supportive. Backing from the European Union and Australia in the United Nations to sustain the…
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Israel and South Africa, feel the similarities
Jerusalem Post columnist Larry Derfner doesn’t mince words: “As long as in this territory west of the Jordan River there is only one political entity called Israel, it is going to be either non-Jewish or non-democratic. If this bloc of millions of Palestinians cannot vote, it will be an apartheid state.” Those are the words…
Netanyahu and Mossad head will be watching where they travel
Interesting: Dubai’s police chief plans to seek the arrest of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the head of the Mossad over the killing of a Hamas leader in the emirate, Al Jazeera television reported on Wednesday. Dahi Khalfan Tamim “said he would ask the Dubai prosecutor to issue arrest warrants for … Netanyahu and the…
Israeli film screening put on hold in Australia
How long do we think Australia’s relationship with Israel will be apparently strained? A few weeks? A month? Maybe longer? This story is certainly interesting: The screening of an Israeli film in Parliament House has been postponed amid heightened tensions between Australia and Israel. Three Australian passports were fraudulently used in the assassination of a…
Amira Hass monitors Israeli apartheid
Two recent pieces by leading Israeli journalist Amira Hass are worth reading. First: “The year 2009 was the quietest for Israelis from the security point of view and the most violent for the Palestinians from the point of view of attacks by settlers in the West Bank.” Just as he was saying this – as…
When God gave Israel to the Jews (and radical Christians, too)
I missed this back in February, spoken by a leading Republican and Tea Party fan: At a Republican Jewish Coalition event in Los Angeles last week, Rep. Michele Bachmann offered a candid view of her positions on Israel: Support for Israel is handed down by God and if the United States pulls back its support,…
Australia’s Israel lobby seem lost for words over Dubai murder
It’s about time Australia’s Zionist lobby was seriously questioned over its inability to find fault with the Israeli policy of state-sanctioned murder (via the Australian): Dual Israeli nationals will be banned from entering Dubai in a sanction that police say will be enforced by recognising “physical features and the way they speak”. The announcement, by…
Who’s getting afraid of BDS?
A leading American Zionist organisation, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs.
Prominent Australian Jews, including Peter Singer, reject the Israeli right of return
MEDIA RELEASE 3 MARCH, 2010 Today is the national launch of a prominent new Australian initiative that rejects Israel’s automatic right of return for Jews across the world. Following a recent similar project in the US, 35 distinguished Australian Jews have signed a petition that indicates growing dissent from Zionist policies and dispossession of Palestinian…
Protesting Egypt’s wall of shame against Gaza
Resistance is continuing in Egypt: Activists and opposition groups are stepping up pressure on the Egyptian government to stop constructing a barrier along the border with the Gaza Strip. Officials say the barrier will prevent cross-border smuggling, but critics say it will seal the fate of the people on the Gaza Strip. “The Egyptian border…