Gideon Levy in Haaretz reminds us that Israel is very happy to cheapen the memory of the Holocaust when it suits their needs: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cheapened the memory of the Holocaust in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday. He did so twice. Once, when he brandished proof of the…
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Rabbi calls for a one-state solution
An intriguing post from The Magnes Zionist that indicates that public debate… how Israel/Palestine is starting to get mugged by reality: … When a young modern orthodox pulpit rabbi in Chicago calls for an unlimited right of return of Palestinian refugees to the State of Israel, and proposes a bi-national Israel-Palestine, conjuring up the ghost of…
Simply not understanding why our fave Jewish state is so yesterday’s news
Oh dear. A Zionist laments the fact that Israel is no longer “cool”. Lobbyists, better spend more on PR because that’s really worked so well for you: We are no longer cool. We always had problems around here, but up until a few years ago we were still one of the coolest states on earth.…
When the penny drop about the occupation?
Israel, you are being watched and increasingly so: Citing “European Union political guidelines” regarding “occupied territories,” the Spanish Housing Ministry has disqualified a group of Israeli academics from competing in a Solar Decathlon held every two years, because they are from the Ariel University Center of Samaria, located over the Green Line. Engineers, architects, solar…
What the occupation has done to Israel
Israeli human rights group B’Tselem on driver Muhammad Id’is who claims he was beaten at an Israeli checkpoint this month. This is his testimony: I live in Beit ”˜Amra, which is next to Yatta. For many years, I have been transporting workers from the communities near Yatta and a-Samu’ to Khirbet Jinba, from which they…
HuffPost goes nowhere in Palestine
Yesterday I discussed Arianna Huffington’s love affair with Israel. Her latest post is even worse, a rose-coloured view of a country she clearly imagines exists but does not. Care to travel down the road to the occupation, Arianna? It’s hard to spend any time with Israeli President Shimon Peres and remain pessimistic about the possibility…
Could we please just pray daily for Israel?
Following my article in yesterday’s Crikey about Saree Makdisi’s recent visit to Australia, the following letter is published today: Josh Landis writes: I don’t get it. What does Crikey see in Antony Loewenstein and why are his rants continually published? The latest offering says almost nothing. Summary: 200 people including about five Jews turned up…
How spiritual is your Judaism?
Jews at the famous Burning Man festival? Jewish identity manifests itself in the strangest of places and yet it makes perfect sense. How we define ourselves in the 21st century is up for grabs. Oddly fascinating (though I can’t help but wonder whether the Middle East was never discussed):
Iran, Michael Jackson, and Generation X
My following article appears in the Asia-Pacific Magazine The Diplomat: Our writer argues that his young tech-savvy peers, celebrity fixations aside, are increasingly engaged in global issues like this summer’s riots in Tehran. The violent June uprisings in Iran ricocheted around the world. While young, old, conservative and liberal Iranians protested the stolen election win…
Murdering Arabs is actually a problem
If the US fails to hold Israel to account, those with international law on their mind may: A senior prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in The Hague said Monday that he is considering opening an investigation into whether Lt. Col. David Benjamin, an Israel Defense Forces reserve officer, allowed war crimes to be committed…