Israel Apartheid Week is back: A filmmaker, anthropologist and economic researcher are among those headlining events marking what pro-Palestinian organizers have declared as “Israeli Apartheid Week” – and all three speakers are Israeli. University campuses in more than 40 cities around the world are marking the week with lectures, films, multimedia events, cultural performances and…
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Rights is the key question for Israel/Palestine, not just peace
A fine post by Promised Land blogger Noam Sheizaf: When discussing the Palestinian-Israeli political process, the most common error is setting peace as its goal. This is not only incorrect, but also counter-productive, because it serves those who wish to maintain the status quo. The key to ending hostilities is to reframe the received narrative,…
When the mosques are being attacked, Israel is going too far
An interesting report on… Al-Jazeera on Israel’s increasing targeting of Muslim houses of worship in the occupied territories. As… my tipster tells me: I was in Cape Town a couple of years after the formal end of apartheid and visited an area which had been seized from its “coloured” inhabitants for the exclusive use of whites.… Every…
Can Zionists report fairly for the Times on matters of Palestinian importance?
A fine piece of analysis by Middle East correspondent Jonathan Cook: A recent assignment had me covering Israel’s presumed links to the assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh; it provoked some more thoughts about the New York Times reporter Ethan Bronner, the Jerusalem bureau chief at the center of a controversy since it was revealed…
How many Australians regards Israel as a problem child?
The following letters appear in today’s Sydney Morning Herald: Amin Saikal is wrong to call the hit on Mahmoud al-Mabhouh terrorism (”It is time for Israel’s friends to condemn its acts of terrorism”, March 1). This man was an armed combatant, whose chief aim was to destroy Israel and kill as many Israelis as possible.…
Are Australian police on the case to find Israeli friendship or truth?
On the surface, Australia appears to be investigating how our passports were used in the murder of a Hamas operative in Dubai but will any of this really affect Israeli/Australian relations in the long run? The Australian Federal Police will send a team of agents to Israel this week to investigate how forged Australian passports…
Time to cool dealings with Israel, says leading Aussie Palestinian group
The following statement is released today by Australians for Palestine:
Canada hearts Israel just a little too much
The Electronic Intifada: Canada is (at least diplomatically) the most pro-Israel country in the world.
Israel will not face prosecution over Gaza crimes, says legal mind
Nick Kaufman is a former official at the International Criminal Court and until recently a senior lawyer in the Jerusalem prosecutor’s office. He tells Haaretz that Israel has little to fear from the Goldstone report over Gaza: – Nick Kaufman, do you think you will represent an Israeli official, who has been charged with committing…
ABC TV interview with author of Emancipation, Michael Goldfarb
Back in February I interviewed American writer Michael Goldfarb on his book, Emancipation, a history of the Jews from the French Revolution to the turn of the 20th century. ABC TV is broadcasting our interview and a preview can be seen below (full version via this link):