Benjamin Netanyahu welcomes the IDF rescue crew back from Haiti: You have raised human spirits and elevated the name of the State of Israel and the Israel Defense Forces. As many plot against us, distort and muddy our names, you have shown the real IDF.
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Not if, but how, Israel uses the Holocaust as a political weapon
Even asking this question would be impossible in most Western media: Does Israel Use The Holocaust as a Blackmail Weapon? On Russia Today, a satellite channel funded by the Russian state, Norman Finkelstein and others debate the question. And as he rightly says, of course Israel uses the catastrophe to shield itself from criticism and…
Poles want legal remedy for Gaza crimes
A typical case of Israeli leaders playing the role of victim, yet again: Israeli leaders continue are still wanted in Europe, but not in a positive way: Knesset members visiting Poland for ceremonies marking International Holocaust Day were surprised to see ads against Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Opposition Chairwoman Tzipi Livni in the city…
Years of Bil’in actions produce some tangible results (we think)
If true, how a local and global campaign against Israeli apartheid achieved results in the West Bank: non-violent, Palestinian resistance that scares the Israelis because it cannot be broken by force: Two-and-a-half years after a Supreme Court order, Israel’s army is preparing to adjust the route of the long security barrier it has constructed on…
New York Times needs to come clean on journalist’s conflicts
The question of New York Times Jerusalem chief Ethan Bronner and whether his son is in the IDF is thrashed out by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting: The decisions of Bronner’s son, however, are not the issue. What the Times needs to ask itself is whether it expects that its bureau chief has the normal…
Did the IDF murder three Palestinians in cold blood?
I reported last week on the death of three Palestinians in Nablus at the hands of the IDF. B’Tselem has released a report that questions the legality of the deaths: In the pre-dawn hours of 26 December 2009, soldiers shot to death Ghassan Abu Sharakh, Nader a-Sarkaji, and ”˜Anan Subuh, while each of them was…
Israelis want the world to know that they’re not evil and Haiti proves it
The use and abuse of the Haiti disaster for Israeli PR has been getting a fair bit of press recently. Here’s a humourous and revealing Israeli skit from the country’s biggest comedy show, accurately ridiculing the absurd Israeli coverage of needing to tell themselves how humane and wonderful they are:
How to remember the Jewish Holocaust the right way
On this year’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, I liked Bernard Avishai’s moving re-telling of his recent visit to Auschwitz (as opposed to Israeli politicians who abuse the memory of the Holocaust to shamefully push the Zionist cause and smear any critics of the occupation): For the overwhelming first impression I had in Auschwitz-Birkenau, which I still…
What Jews have created in the West Bank (hatred and racism)
Here’s a definition of fundamentalist Jewish settler violence.
Using and abusing the Holocaust, part 8652
This is a wonderful article (kindly passed along by a reader). Writing in the Guardian, German writer Alan Posener documents the growing voices that are begging the Jewish community to stop “wailing” about the Holocaust, use the catastrophe as a crutch and insulate themselves from criticism of Israel. Time to grow up: Even today, there…