When one, tiny nation didn’t like war crimes in Gaza

Satire is dead. One little country dares vote to investigate war crimes in Gaza and the Jewish state is appalled, outraged and probably about to accuse the country of anti-Semitism. Ludicrous: Israel is sending a foreign ministry official to the Solomon Islands next week to seek an explanation as to why it was the only…

How two-state believers live in their own, academic world

Following the article in yesterday’s Australian newspaper by Philip Mendes and Nick Dyrenfurth – lovers of enforcing “acceptable” boundaries over Israel/Palestine – that claimed “fundamentalists” have hijacked the Middle East debate, I submitted the following, unpublished letter: Blind supporters of Israel have for decades framed the Jewish state as the victim of a vicious, global…

Jews coming together on refugees and conflict

The following email was just sent to the list of Independent Australian Jewish Voices: Dear friends, After a brutal civil war that massacred tens of thousands in Sri Lanka, many Tamils are seeking to rebuild their lives in Australia and beyond. We have not only a moral responsibility to listen to their pleas as refugees,…

Raising the alarm about Mohammad Othman

Jewish Voice for Peace have sent out the following email: Fifty days have passed since his detention, but Mohammad Othman is still in prison. The Israeli government has given no reason for his arrest. And things are getting worse. We’ve learned that Mohammad is now incommunicado — even from his own lawyers. Under these circumstances,…

How many Jewish soldiers are helping settler madness?

The IDF are “concerned” that soldiers are participating in settler “revenge attacks” (but are doing virtually nothing about… it): Mickey Haimovich [anchor]: The IDF is concerned by a phenomenon where soldiers who reside on West Bank settlements join acts of revenge and riots against Palestinians. Two soldiers were apprehended after they were spotted by IDF cameras.…

Prominent Jew helps Iran remain front and centre

Republican Whip Eric Cantor reminded the 2009 General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in Washington this week that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is “the man holding the gun with which he vows to kill Israel and the Jews”: Some Jews always need an enemy.

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