Jewish American blogger Richard Silverstein points out a piece in Details magazine from last year that discusses the role of American Jews moving to Israel and becoming settler fundamentalists: Later this year, 21-year-old Ephraim Khantsis will pack a couple of suitcases, say good-bye to his mother, leave his home in Brooklyn, and move to Israel.…
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The original Zionist ideal (for Jews only?)
Zionist pioneer, Doreen Guinsberg, 95, contributor at Israel’s birth: We were going to build an ideal state.
The dead bodies are not forgotten in Gaza
Democracy Now! features eyewitness testimony from the Samouni family in Gaza that lost 29 members during the late 2008/early 2009 Israeli assault on the Strip:
Another slaughter in Gaza sooner than we think?
Bradley Burston in Haaretz thinks that Palestinians should prepare for another massacre and soon: The countdown to the Second Gaza War has begun in earnest. Date it, if you like, to Sunday, and a coolly terrifying analysis by Yom Tov Samia, former overall Israeli military commander of the Gaza Strip and the adjacent Negev. Or…
How Aussies are helping Zionist fanatics in the West Bank
The Australian connection to backing and funding Israel’s fundamentalist settler movement.
Gaza could be liberated if Palestinians simply got off their behinds
From the “shooting your cause in the foot” file. When hardline Zionists wonder why the world increasingly regards their cause with contempt (and no, anti-Semitism isn’t the issue here), not even being able to acknowledge Palestinian suffering ranks pretty high. This recent editorial in the Jerusalem Post plays the usual cards and achieves little more…
GFM claims success in flying the flag for Gaza
My following article appears in today’s Crikey: I attended the Gaza Freedom March (GFM)… in late December to generate publicity for the disastrous Western-led policies towards Palestine. 1400 people from 43 countries descended on Cairo on December 27 and aimed to travel into Gaza to “break the siege”. Palestine has become a truly globalised issue…
Put your hand up if you want to bomb Gaza?
Let’s see how much coverage in the West this receives (hint: nothing). Promised Land blog in Israel highlights the casual racism that permeates the Jewish state: What would we say if a poll by Iranian or Palestinian television station presented the public with the option of completely destroying Israel? Because this is exactly what Keshet…
When apartheid Israel is simply a term of truth
Henry Siegman, former national director of the American Jewish Congress and of the Synagogue Council of America, The Nation, 25 January: Israel’s relentless drive to establish “facts on the ground” in the occupied West Bank, a drive that continues in violation of even the limited settlement freeze to which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu committed himself,…