The world has not forgotten: “From the besieged Gaza Strip, we call upon all peace lovers around the globe to come here to participate in our Gaza Freedom March that is aimed at breaking a repressive Israeli blockade on Gaza’s 1.5 million residents.” So said Mustafa al-Kayali, coordinator of the steering committee for the Gaza…
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Palestinians in Gaza can’t even mark their holy days
Gaza journalist and teacher Rami Almeghari – his work perfectly captures the day to day toughness of life in the Strip – explains the reality of this year’s Muslim holiday of Eid: Daoud Suleiman Ahmad, 48, an unemployed construction worker, has been unable to find work for almost three years due to the Israeli blockade…
No entry, says Israel, because you’re Arab
Gideon Levy reminds us in Haaretz that only Israel gets away with discrimination on the basis of being Palestinian: In no other city is access to holy places restricted according to the believer’s age, as Muslims who seek to pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque are restricted.
The impossibility of truly defining Judaism
Shlomo Sand’s The Invention of the Jewish People: There were times in Europe when anyone who argued that all Jews belong to a nation of alien origin would have been classified at once as an anti-Semite. Nowadays, anyone who dares to suggest that the people known in the world as Jews (as distinct from today’s…
Nothing to see here, just crazy Jews harassing Palestinians
Would the Australian government like to discuss the reality of fundamentalist, Jewish settlers in the West Bank? Of course not: A West Bank settlement has filed a petition to the High Court of Justice demanding the demolition of a nearly-complete stadium in the Palestinian city of El Bireh, near Ramallah. The Psagot settlement and the…
Australia loves Zionist crimes, don’t you know?
Words fail me, but we shouldn’t be surprised. Israel can commit war crimes and Australia will welcome its leaders with welcome arms: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will host a delegation of senior Israeli politicians in Australia this week, including Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom. Mr Rudd will launch the Australia Israel Leadership Forum at a…
Jewish settlers are the problem and remain so
BBC journalist Alan Johnston, kidnapped in Gaza in 2007, returns to the Palestinian territories for the first time since his release. It’s not a pretty picture: But in the West Bank signs of tension are never far away, if you know where to look. High on the crest of a hill you could make out…
Why can’t we build more colonies on Palestinian land, Mummy?
Likud activist: The Obama regime is anti-Jewish and anti-Semitic; it’s the worst.
How Middle East partition still kills any chance of peace
The organisation Zochrot are a group of Israeli citizens working to raise awareness of the Nakba, the 1948 Palestinian catastrophe. They were asked by Israeli news service Ynet last week to write something on the partition plan… from 1947. Below is the translated piece of Ariella Azoulay: The United Nations partition decision of 29 November 1947…
The world wants no more settlements and Israel doesn’t give a damn
The New York Times writes a typically soft editorial on the Middle East – Israel, the Palestinians and Washington are all at fault, it claims, ignoring the profound power imbalances in the region – and Haaretz reports on how the Israeli government really views the occupation (more, please): Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Thursday ordered…