The ongoing saga of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Peter Hartcher and his propaganda trip to Israel continues with this letter in the paper today: The blowback your Peter Hartcher is copping (Letters, November 18) from the anti-Israel set, furiously punching keyboards to expose a Zionist conspiracy, is a wonder to behold. Meanwhile the leaders of…
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Settlement halt? Don’t make me laugh
Two abused children and one shows who’s boss: Israel has given the go ahead for the construction of 900 housing units in occupied… East Jerusalem, rebuffing a reported US request that it block construction at the Gilo settlement, officials have said.
Gideon Levy on Israel: we are in a coma
Gideon Levy, a fine Israeli journalist, speaks to the Real News Network: I know there is a change in the Jewish community in the United States, but it’s too little and too late…Israel, the Israeli society, is in a situation of coma for at least ten years.
Israel lobby funds another media tour. Read all about it
My following article is published today on Crikey: “Peter Hartcher is the Sydney Morning Herald’s international editor. He travelled to Israel as a guest of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies.” Hartcher’s latest piece for his paper tells a familiar tale. The UN Goldstone report on the Gaza war… ”‰—”‰in which Israel and Hamas are accused…
A Middle East that could blow and soon
The idea that the status-quo is sustainable in the Middle East is both delusional and sensible. On the one hand, Israel’s occupation of Palestine will continue as long as the world powers allow it to. Without serious pressure, Zionist fundamentalists will continue pushing their apocalyptic view of the world. Alternatively, as Bernard Avishai notes today,…
How much do we really know about Zionist influence on British elites?
The entire Channel 4 Dispatches investigation of the Zionist lobby’s influence on British politics. This Guardian piece sums up the desperate need to fully uncover the role of Likud extremism on the democratic system: Every year a very grand lunch is given by the Conservative Friends of Israel at a central London hotel. Anyone who…
The daily violation of the occupation in graphic detail
What is this advertisement? Within the “One Day One Struggle” campaign organized by the Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies (CSBR), held on November 9, we are seeking to break the “walls” of silence on daily violations of our sexual and bodily rights in the Palestinian society. We are principally highlighting the…
Chomsky on our inability to see Middle East hypocrisy
Guernica: You cite a story in the New York Times where “the reviewer,” you write, “constitutional lawyer Noah Feldman, described Osama [bin Laden]’s descent to greater and greater evil over the years, finally reaching the absolute lower depths, when ”˜he put forth the perverse claim that since the United States is a democracy, all citizens…
Why can’t Palestinians just accept new dishwashers and a swimming pool?
News flash! Peace in Palestine is about to break out. The occupation is about to end? Of course not. But wealthy Arabs can live in lovely, high-rise buildings: Dusk has fallen on a terraced hillside and workers clearing the red earth hurry to finish planting trees in the twilight, their labor the initial step in…
The mainstream media should not take free trips to Israel, repeat after me
Following Peter Hartcher’s article in yesterday’s Sydney Morning Herald that allowed Zionist spokespeople yet more opportunities to white-wash their crimes in Gaza, the following letter is published in today’s paper: Peter Hartcher’s reflection on the Goldstone report fails on a number of counts (”Israel feels tarnished as critics apply apartheid tag”, November 17). Hartcher repeats…