I’ve been publishing the compelling stories by Australian Donna Mulhearn during her recent trip to Gaza. Here’s her latest and last reflections: Dear friends, The children concentrated hard as they drew the blood spurting out of bodies, the helicopters firing bullets onto people below, the aeroplanes dropping bombs. They also drew weary palm trees, grey…
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Memo to Jews close to God; porn and online gambling are your friends
The intention of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel to ban access to an open internet in Israel isn’t going too well: Are Israel’s Haredi religious authorities losing control of their followers? In December, leading Israeli rabbis launched a new push to curtail Internet use among ultra-Orthodox Jews, emphasizing that their longstanding ban on Web surfing applied…
Jessie Boylan reports on the wild lands of Sinai and Gaza
I posted a few days ago a wonderful essay by Australian photo-journalist Conor Ashleigh about his experience in Egypt and Gaza during the Gaza Freedom March. A colleague Jessie Boylan was with him and she has also filed a compelling travelogue on the journey.
Canadian students lead the way on BDS
Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) Carleton in Ottawa, Canada, have released a stunning video explaining why their university should divest from companies intimately involved in the Israeli occupation. It’s just the latest example of civil society taking up the issue of Palestine when governments and the elites continue backing gross human rights abuses in Palestine.…
Much of the world doesn’t believe Israeli arrogance anymore
The revealing statement by the Israeli government to the UN: You are worrying about the humanitarian rights of 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza. You should be worrying about one Israeli who is being held there.
Mahmoud Abbas and his cute police state
How the US-backed Palestinian Authority deals with dissent in the West Bank, silencing and arresting imams and activists. The makings of a police state, kindly brought to the Palestinians by the international community.
Israel only sees goodness in itself
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: They [the international community] know that no country has faced the kind of terror rocket attacks that we have faced, except for Britain during World War II, and that our response was the only sensible response. Operation Cast Lead was a more proportionate response than was meted out by Great…
Time for new Palestinian elections but who really cares?
Internal Palestinian politics are mired in mistrust, hatred and fighting (or colluding) with Israeli occupation. This “milestone” has been barely recognised: Four years after Hamas won an upset victory in the 2006 Palestinian legislative elections, prompting swift international sanctions and a Western-led diplomatic boycott, the mandate for the parliament it dominated officially expired on Monday.…
Zinn on the universality of human rights (Zionism not excepted)
The death of Howard Zinn has reminded us of his powerful and incendiary words. Take this essay (reproduced in full below) from 1999, titled, “A larger consciousness“: Some years ago, when I was teaching at Boston University, I was asked by a Jewish group to give a talk on the Holocaust. I spoke that evening,…
Why the Israeli left may rise again over East Jerusalem (but don’t count on it)
Avraham Burg, former speaker of the Knesset, is interviewed in Israel over the growing social unrest and ethnic cleansing in East Jerusalem: The former speaker of the Knesset, Avrum Burg, on Galie Tzahal’s (IDF Radio), morning show, Ma Boer, with Razi Bakai, 24 January, 2010: Anchor Razi Barkai: Good morning, former Knesset Speaker Avraham (Avrum)…