Jewish dissenters beware: Right-wing groups in Israel want to create a climate of fear among left-wing scholars at Israeli universities by emulating the “witch-hunt” tactics of the US academic monitoring group Campus Watch, Israeli professors warn. The watchdog groups IsraCampus and Israel Academia Monitor are believed to be stepping up their campaigns after the recent…
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Without serious pressure, writes Roger Cohen, Israel will not change
New York Times columnist Roger Cohen has written extensively this year about the Israel/Palestine conflict, and his latest column continues that tradition. Its importance lies in telling Americans how content many Israelis are with the status-quo (namely occupation): I’ve grown so pessimistic about Israel-Palestine that I find myself agreeing with Israel’s hard-line foreign minister, Avigdor…
On the ground reporting under Israeli bombs in Gaza
To Shoot an Elephant, a film about Israel’s bombardment of Gaza in December and January.
Does a unilateral Palestinian state really seem likely?
Akiva Eldar in Haaretz: What will Israel do if Abbas announces that by a reasonable date, say, December 31, 2010, the option of a state and a half – Israel and alongside it a Palestinian entity – will go the way of the West Bank’s “village leagues” of the 1980s? The question therefore is not…
Zionist lobby in the UK? Perish the thought
Britain’s Channel 4 documentary on the Zionist lobby there faces the inevitable smears from groups that have a lot to hide (and prefer to operate through intimidation): Labor MP Denis MacShane, who chaired the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Anti-Semitism and is the author of Globalizing Hatred: the New Anti-Semitism, questioned the existence of such a…
The gift Israel has given the world (crazy settlers)
Women in Green are fanatical Jews intent on settling all of the West Bank. Screw the Arabs. They just sent out the following email: Below is a link to … pictures of the destruction today in Neguhot by the IDF of two homes – the home of Yehudit and Natan Ben David and their 6 children…
Our dear leader loves Israel in his toes
Isi Leibler on Australian political leaders and Israel: John Howard was instinctively, as a conservative, a friend of Israel. Kevin Rudd is a remarkable personality but I didn’t think he would maintain the course as he has. I regard him as a Christian Zionist – he understands and has some sympathy for us. Australia gives…
Abbas should do everybody a favour and leave
Rami Khouri on the crisis in Palestinian leadership: Palestine Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has reverted to an old political trick by saying he will resign and not run for re-election when the next presidential elections are held in early 2010 – and then immediately arranging a series of staged “rallies” in which ordinary people appear…
Zionist paper in Australia injects humour into its pages
The level of debate, nuance and understanding at the Australian Jewish News is clear in this week’s editorial on the Sydney Peace Prize being awarded to John Pilger: …Pilger, a polemicist who, despite early promise, has generally championed despots and terrorists. Yes, the paper is a deadly serious publication that deserves respect.
Britain’s Channel 4 looks into the reach of the Zionist lobby
Can you imagine a leading current affairs program in the US or Australia investigating the tentacles of the Zionist lobby? Hardly: Pro-Israeli organisations in Britain look set to see their influence increase if the Conservatives win the next election, a film scrutinising the activities of a powerful but little-known lobby warns today. At least half…