Israeli apartheid, with the world watching on: The social, economic, health and educational gaps between Israel’s Jewish and Arab citizens are continuing to grow, mostly as a result of unfair government policies and prejudice from the Jewish population, a study published Wednesday has found. Now in its third year, the Equality Index of Jewish and…
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Naomi Klein says the first world owns climate relief to the globe
Naomi Klein, recently speaking out against Israeli crimes in Palestine, goes back to her roots as a leading voice against rampant capitalism and here explains on Democracy Now! that it’s the duty of global citizens to challenge the supposedly accepted concepts of climate change: [There is a] growing demand for the repayment of climate debt.…
I love Israel so much, says US anti-Semitism fighter
Here’s a fun job to have. Hannah Rosenthal, former head of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, started this week as the State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism. Oh joy. Tablet Magazine asks her to respond to critics (and note how many times she has to say she loves Israel, just to…
South Africa seemingly infested by friendly Israeli agents
Sometimes, certain stories need no introduction: South Africa deported an Israeli airline official last week following allegations that Israel’s secret police, the Shin Bet, had infiltrated Johannesburg international airport in an effort to gather information on South African citizens, particularly black and Muslim travellers. The move by the South African government followed an investigation by…
Palin wants The Rapture (at least somebody realises)
Following Sarah Palin’s recent comments that illegal, Jewish settlements should expand in the West Bank (in a clear reference to the Second Coming), a former Australian Liberal Party MP Ross Cameron today challenges her on this: American policy for the past 40 years has discouraged Israeli settlements in the disputed territories. Palin told Barbara Walters…
How the children of Palestinian find inspiration in resistance
British photographer Rich Wiles, who had an exhibition about Palestine in Sydney earlier this year, writes for the BADIL Resource Centre for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights on the use of art to resist occupation: In the summer of 2008, Shira’a Center in Dheisheh Camp hosted one of its annual summer camps. In common with…
At what point will J Street realise that Israel isn’t democratic now?
J Street head Jeremy Ben-Ami debated the Executive Director of the American Jewish Committee David Harris on CNN earlier this week. They disagreed on some key points (Harris believes Israel can solve the conflict on its own while Ben-Ami believes only Washington can) but this comment by Ben-Ami was the strongest statement: The settlement enterprise…
Call for support: The One Democratic State Group – Gaza
“The One Democratic State Group is committed to the struggle for Palestinian rights. These rights will never be realized outside the framework of a unitary state with equality for all its citizens. For too long this aim has been a vision. It is time to make it happen, and the ODSG is at the forefront…
Why is even discussing anti-Semitism off-limits?
The Israeli film Defamation – slammed by the Jerusalem Post’s Caroline Glick as a work made by “leftist, anti-Israel Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir”, it is actually a fine movie that accuses Jewish groups worldwide of exaggerating anti-Semitism to insulate Israel from criticism – lands in London and makes a splash: A series of controversial Israeli…
Religious Jews should not be setting the agenda
Bernard Avishai on Intel in Israel capitulating to Jewish fundamentalism.