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…
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Sri Lanka keeps on down the path of rampant nationalism
Sri Lanka’s election is now over – the winner is current President Mahinda Rajapaksa – but the country is likely to continue to descend further into an authoritarian state. More on the election here. How many Zionists are still claiming that Sri Lanka is the model for fighting Israel’s war on the Palestinians? Too many.
What are the moral questions by comparing Israel to Nazism?
A scene with Norman Finkelstein from American Radical (a documentary about his work and life) where he refuses to be silenced when audience members at a university claim he unfairly compares Israel to Nazi Germany.
Ehud Barak raises the apartheid reality
Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak: The lack of defined boundaries within Israel, and not an Iranian bomb, is the greatest threat to our future. We have a paramount interest in establishing defined borders between ourselves and the Palestinians that will set the stage for two states for two peoples. It must be understood that if…
Fiery words of passion spoken in Scotland against Israeli actions
During the recent Gaza Freedom March, I spent time with the wonderful 85 year old anti-Zionist Jew Hedy Epstein who spoke powerfully against Israeli crimes in Palestine. I remember meeting a number of Scottish participants in Cairo and noting the deep commitment to Palestinian human rights. Here’s another voice of reason: Dr Hajo Meyer, 86,…
Israel must fully investigate activities in Gaza, demand human rights figures
The following statement was released on 26 December by a host of Israeli human rights groups: Adalah — The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel | Association for Civil Rights in Israel | B’tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories | Gisha – Legal Center for Freedom…
US Congress acknowledges Gaza suffering
This is encouraging and proves that a few elements of humanity are not infected by the Zionist lobby: Fifty-four members of the U.S. Congress have signed a letter asking President Barack Obama to put pressure on Israel to ease the siege of the Gaza Strip. The letter was the initiative of Representatives Jim McDermott from…
Israel talks about freezing settlements but keeps on building settlements
The great Akiva Eldar’s new headline in Haaretz: Only an idiot would say Israel has frozen settlement activity
Yet another way that hatred for Israel breeds every day in Gaza
The longer of prisoner’s families in Gaza is like torture with Israel illegally refusing to allow regular visits: Umm Faris Baroud of Shati refugee camp in western Gaza City wakes up early every Monday in the hope that she will be allowed to visit her son Faris, serving a life sentence in one of Israel’s…
Israel starts to realise the price for its occupation
An important development sent by a key organiser of the BDS movement, Omar Barghouti: Israel’s ambassador to Denmark says Danske Bank follows a Middle East policy with a disproportionate focus on Israel by dropping investments in two companies involved in settlements. JERUSALEM: Danske Bank’s decision to abandon investments in two companies because of their activities…