The story of New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner having a son now enlisted in the IDF continues to cause angst across the world. This Al-Jazeera report outlines the issues and provides evidence for the prosecution, namely that Bronner’s reporting is inherently more sympathetic to the Zionist line: The Times itself has followed…
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Dutch pension fend divests from apartheid backing Israeli firm
Another small step in the global campaign against Israel: Despite Israel’s oppressive tactics against it, the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement has marked additional victories with many institutional investors divesting from or blacklisting Israeli military contractor Elbit Systems. One of the largest Dutch pension funds told The Electronic Intifada today that it is selling…
British citizens could be killed over Israeli hit in Dubai (thank you Mossad)
The likely Mossad assassination of the Hamas official in Dubai is turning into yet another PR disaster for Israel. Here’s Paul McGeough on Democracy Now! late last week explaining the latest and Robert Fisk on Al-Jazeera. Now this: The lives of the six British citizens whose identities were stolen by a Mossad assassination team are…
Leading American Jewish newspaper praises Israel for its wonderful openness
The Jewish Forward believes the Israeli government has shown itself to be wonderfully open after the Goldstone report (what are these editorial writers smoking?). Yet in its own, painful way, the Goldstone report has been a revealing exercise. It revealed that the Israeli military has made a genuine attempt to investigate many of the charges…
Goldfarb believes that Jews should have full rights but as for Palestinians…
Last week I interviewed author Michael Goldfarb on his book Emancipation, a story of Jewish liberation in Europe after the French Revolution. It’s an interesting read but Goldfarb, like so many Jews of a certain age and experience, appears unwilling to extend his desire for rights towards the Palestinians. He said during our chat in…
Haaretz columnist writes that Israel is becoming a pariah state on its own
Bradley Burston in Haaretz has recently been on fire. Angry, passionate and distressed with the state of his country. His latest is no exception, titled, “I envy the people who hate Israel“: At times like these, I envy the people who passionately, frankly, with all their hearts, despise Israel. Hate Israel enough, and the Jewish…
J Street tries to define itself as a progressive, Zionist organisation (with very mixed success)
J Street continues to walk a very fine line between pleasing the hard Right on the Goldstone report and Iran sanctions while also demanding more open debate in America about the Israel/Palestine conflict. Here’s Jeremy Ben-Ami’s latest statement: I’ve just landed in the US following an exhilarating week leading a delegation of five members of…
The nuts and bolts of the Gaza tragedy
Sara Roy in the Nation on Gaza: Gaza’s protracted blockade has resulted in the near total collapse of the private sector. At least 95 percent of Gaza’s industrial establishments (3,750 enterprises) were either forced to close or were destroyed over the past four years, resulting in a loss of between 100,000 and 120,000 jobs. The…
Mr Mossad in the firing line
Priceless: Interpol should help arrest the head of Mossad if Israel‘s spy agency was responsible for the killing of a Hamas commander in Dubai, the emirate’s police chief said today. In comments to be aired on Dubai TV, Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan Tamim called for Interpol to issue “a red notice against the head of…
Is Israel mature enough to understand the value of rights?
An instructive op-ed in Haaretz by media consultant Gilad Heiman that offers the Jewish state some advice that will probably be ignored: Israeli public relations stems entirely from the Zionist Israeli narrative, without any genuine attempt being made to learn the language of human rights, which is dominant in international public discourse. We expect the…