How Israel is moving from a “democratic to fascist society”

Israeli Didi Remez writes at his essential blog Coteret: Sima Kadmon is senior political commentator at Yediot, second in stature only to Nahum Barnea. She devotes much of her Friday (February 5 2010) column to a methodical deconstruction of the motivation and methodology behind the Im Tirzu anti-NIF smear campaign. Kadmon adds… domestic… depth to Nahum Barnea’s…

The Hague may soon be seeing some Israeli leaders

Trouble ahead for the Jewish state: The United Nations is likely to refer the findings of the Goldstone report to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, diplomatic sources in New York said on Saturday. A decision to bring the report on last year’s Gaza war before the court would follow a debate in…

Anti-Semitism isn’t simply a weapon to silence Israel’s critics

The issue of modern anti-Semitism – how common is it, what does it really mean and is it used to shield Israel from legitimate criticism – is a worthy subject of discussion. Here’s Anne Karpf in the Independent arguing that society (and Jews especially) should be careful before throwing the term around: Is the closed…

Israel as a “fascist state under the cover of Zionism”

Gideon Levy in Haaretz: How can we truly know what happened in the Gaza Strip without Breaking the Silence, and how can we know what is happening in the West Bank every day without B’Tselem? But Im Tirtzu doesn’t want us to know; it wants to cover our shame. That, to it, is patriotism, but…

Dershowitz on Goldstone

Alan Dershowitz has concocted a response to the Goldstone Report over Gaza. The Magnes Zionist blog dissects it and reaches a depressing conclusion; the Harvard Law Professor is incapable of finding any fault with Israeli actions.

Middle East news that falls through the cracks

Sometimes its hard to keep up with the disturbing news coming out of Israel and Palestine. So here’s a good summary of some recent reading: – Evicted Jewish settlers from Gaza recently found any crimes from the 2005 withdrawal wiped clean from the slate due to a bill in the Knesset. – Newsflash: some American…

Israel’s gender apartheid should be damned

The Jewish Forward editorialises strongly against Israel’s growing religious extremism (just remember what the Western media says when genders are divided in Muslim nations): The need to restrain the burgeoning power of Jewish fundamentalism in Israel grows ever more urgent. The latest flashpoint is public transportation. For several years, on an increasing number of public…

America reminds the world who really controls Israel

Washington certainly has a strange way of showing its opposition to Israel’s Gaza policy: The United States has suggested to Israel that easing the Gaza blockade would help counter the fallout from the Goldstone report on alleged war crimes during Operation Cast Lead a year ago. … The Americans said they do not believe in…

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