During last night’s Sydney Ideas event with Sareee Makdisi, I gave the following introduction: Sydney Ideas 22 September, 2009 Excavating Memory in Jerusalem Professor Saree Makdisi, US academic, author and Middle East analyst Seymour Centre, Sydney University An introduction by Antony Loewenstein During an interview with the Boston Globe in 2008 during the release of…
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The Israeli Jewish bubble
Back in July, Joseph Dana and I walked the streets of West Jerusalem to check Israeli public opinion towards Arabs, Barack Obama and settlemets. The main message? Leave us Jews alone. Racism was everywhere. Now Al-Jazeera has pounded the same area and heard virtually similar comments. At what point will Israeli Jewish racism be exposed…
And Israel wonders why it is so hated
A day in the life of a Palestinian in Gaza: Abu Wael, my white-haired host in Beit Hanoun, so gentle and soft-spoken, sat and graciously urged his guests to eat more of food that he grew with his own hands on his northern Gaza farm, while he spoke of his grief. The farm used to…
The thought of telling Israel what to do is pleasant and necessary
Wow, things must be getting desperate for an old-time American war-monger to warn Israel against bombing Iran: The national security adviser for former President Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski, gave an interview to The Daily Beast in which he suggested President Obama should make it clear to Israel that if they attempt to attack Iran’s nuclear…
Launch wars and never look back in Gaza
Zionist commentators are concerned that the UN Gaza report – a detailed study of wilful Israeli killing of Palestinian civilians – is just all too inconvenient. Here’s Uriel Heilman in JTA: For an Israel desperate to steer international focus toward the threat of Iran, the debate over the Gaza conflict is a distraction and an…
What the Zionist mind has become since 1948
Daniel Pipes is loved by the fundamentalist Zionist community, invited, feted and respected for views such as these: The Palestinians must be made to understand in the deepest recesses of their consciousness that they are a defeated people. Charming. His latest essay is introduced to his readers thus: I have written over 300 pieces on…
Zionist enforcer slams anyone who dares speak of two-state solution
Following Israel Lobby co-author Steve Walt’s rational article in the Washington Post that simply outlined Barack Obama’s seeming inability or unwillingness to control a rampant Jewish state, Atlantic Zionist writer Jeffrey Goldberg responds with a typically vitriolic and fact-free side-swipe (after Walt expressed pleasure with J Street): J Street would be better off with Osama…
The importance of standing up for Palestinian rights, those occupied
Following an article in the Australian on the weekend – that accused critics of Israel of extremism – the paper publishes the following letters today: This week a leading US Jewish newspaper, The Forward, has published an article with the headline “Palestinian-led movement to boycott Israel is gaining support”. It explains how the global and…
Why the Goldstone Gaza report matters
Richard Falk, the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, has spoken extensively about Israel’s crimes in Palestine, including after the Gaza war. Now, after last week’s UN report about the conflict, Falk wrote the following for a Turkish publication: “So why did the Israeli government boycott the commission? The real…