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…

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.

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,…

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…

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…

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