Jews, your job is to shut up and support Israel. Not clear? Allow Isi Leibler (this Australian born Jew has a pedigree), writing in the Jerusalem Post, explain: We must pay more attention to the threat from within. Today, self-loathing Jews (including Israelis) are at the forefront of almost every campaign to denigrate and defame…
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Sri Lanka and Israel should get a room
Sri Lanka and Israel use terror in similar ways: the “war on terror” they’re both fighting causes nothing other than mass destruction and hatred. Some victory. The relationship is murky and ever-deepening. This headline is revealing: S.L. Govt. uses Israel to soften American pressure
Australian Jewish academics pray for peace (but urge no action)
The saga of holding Israel to account continues. Following the recent call for a campaign against apartheid Israel, played out in the media and online, comes this response by some of Australia’s best-known Jewish academics: We write in response to the two letters published in The Australian on Monday 21 September by Anthony Loewenstein and…
If a Rabbi can be a humanist, what about the rest of us?
American Rabbi Brant Rosen is an outspoken defender of Palestinian rights. Here he is in the Chicago Tribune this week on the occasion of Judaism’s holy day: On Sunday night, the Jewish community will begin our annual Yom Kippur fast. The physical deprivation is a crucial element of the day, but as with many faith…
Moving from a Jewish state to fascism in a few steps
A headline in Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper: Israel is teetering toward theocracy, with the rise of the Haredim
Helping start World War III
Discussion in America about a military strike by Israel against Iran has moved from “if” to “when”. Fox News continues the charge:
True justice over Gaza won’t happen on its own
Last week America told the world that the UN Gaza report was terribly unfair to Israel and should essentially be ignored. This week, in yet another sign of Washington’s “seriousness” over Middle East peace, we have this: The United States called on its close ally Israel on Tuesday to conduct credible investigations into allegations of…
Of course Israel should attack Iran and soon
This is mainstream American news television, a discussion about how Iran should be bombed, when it should happen, if Israel should be assisted and if Israel should assassinate Iranian leaders to bring regime change. Can you imagine the outcry if Iranian television had the same kind of program, discussing the ways in which Israeli leaders…
The Palestinians should tell their 1948 story
A new book, Rosemarie M. Esber’s Under the Cover of War: The Zionist Expulsion of the Palestinians, presents 1948 history as it really happened as opposed to how Zionists would like to white-wash events: During this civil war period, Esber writes, “Zionist Jewish military organizations forced more than 400,000 Palestinian Arab inhabitants from their homes…
If Israel calls itself a democracy it has to act like one
Following my letter in last week’s Australian supporting the targeted boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israel, Labor MP Michael Danby responds: Antony Loewenstein and Jake Lynch (The Australian, Letters blog, 22 September) criticise Philip Mendes and Nick Dyrenfurth for their opposition to the campaign for “boycott, disinvestment and sanctions” directed at Israel. But they…