Following the news that former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert arrived in Australia, I submitted the following (unpublished) letter to the major papers: It is revealing that Israel’s former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert swung into Australia virtually unannounced this week and was given a “warm welcome” by the Parliamentary Speaker. Olmert is currently under investigation…
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Please hold and cuddle us, begs pro-settler Jew
Australian-born Zionist Isi Leibler – a believer in ex-communicating ‘dissident” Jews – appears in the Melbourne Age to plead for poor, little Israel. The whole world hates her and it’s just not fair. We’re a thriving democracy, he claims. Oh sure, the Palestinians are “suffering” but it’s their own fault. But the more spurious claim…
Olmert is a Zionist legend (argues “journalist”)
When former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert visits America, he is welcomed as a war criminal. In Australia, Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan of Rupert Murdoch’s The Australian treats him like a glorious hero: Ehud Olmert is a giant of contemporary Middle East politics. As Israel’s prime minister he made war – twice – in Lebanon…
Settlers have every intention of building more colonies
Israel’s “settlement” freeze is causing the radical settlers to revolt. Here’s the latest missive from the notorious Women in Green: The announcement of the building freeze in Judea and Samaria is proof that Netanyahu, to our shame, is following in the path of Ariel Sharon – betraying the will of the Jewish majority that elected…
The young no longer tolerate second-class status Arabs
What and who is the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israel?
Viral film forces us to imagine life for Palestinians
A disturbing British short (via Mondoweiss) that reimagines Israeli checkpoints and the Palestinian experience in a totally different land:
“Your mother may be a Jew but you no longer are one”
Following the feature in yesterday’s Jakarta Post about my work and critical Judaism, I received the following email from Charles Solnik (a former IDF physician): I don’t know how you can be proud to be a Jew. The foundation of Jewishness is the Torah. That is even if one is secular or not their knowledge…
Political process fails, Palestine activists take action
Leading BDS campaigner Omar Barghouti writes: After the semi-coordinated, effective campaign against Veolia and Alstom across several European countries, this is the first fully coordinated BDS campaign in Europe, targeting the main Israeli exporter of agricultural produce (including products of colonial settlements), Agrexco-Carmel. It is worth noting that the coalition against Agrexco-Carmel in France alone…
Israel is forced to fight 1947 over and over again
Israel, you have a global credibility problem and you aren’t even aware why: If the United Nations General Assembly were to vote today on Resolution 181, the Partition Plan that led to the creation of the modern State of Israel, “there is no doubt” that it would not be approved, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon…
The Wire on Israeli settlement “freeze”
I was interviewed yesterday on Adelaide-based current affairs show The Wire about Israel’s colony “freeze”: