Times are changing. 60 Minutes, one of Australia’s most popular commercial current affairs programs, has done a story on the West Bank. The journalist, Liam Bartlett, has written this: Trying to understand the Middle East peace process is a bit like attempting to unscramble an egg so we travelled to Israel to get a first-hand…
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Israel always wants peace but shame about those neighbours
Jerusalem Post editor David Horowitz reminds us that peace in the Middle East will never happen because Israel’s “enemies” are ready to strike again. Zionists, to the barricades! Endless war awaits: In the coming year, despite the current tranquility, Israel’s best and brightest may have to act again in order to protect us. Listen to…
The mainstream price for questioning Zionism
Following this month’s release of the film about leading US Jewish historian Norman Finkelstein, American Radical, it’s worth recalling how he made his name. Below is taken from Noam Chomsky’s 2002 book, Understanding Power: How many of you know about Joan Peters, the book by Joan Peters? There was this best-seller a few years ago…
America likes to bathe with Israeli missiles
The Obama administration comes down on the side of war criminals over its role in the Gaza war. When will more people start to realise that Washington is not an honest broker in the Middle East? The Obama administration sharply criticized a UN report Friday alleging that Israel committed multiple war crimes in its Gaza…
Israelis forgetting how to treat the other as human
Back in January, Assa Doron, an Israeli/Australian research fellow in the research school of Pacific and Asian studies at the Australian National University in Canberra, wrote a piece in the Australian about Jewish dissent over Israel: No one has a monopoly on patriotism or what constitutes national loyalty. Like many others, I too feel for…
Why Zionists know that boycotting Israel is a dangerous weapon
The following article by Philip Mendes and Nick Dyrenfurth appears in today’s Australian newspaper: A few weeks ago the Australia Israel Cultural Exchange staged the sixth annual Israeli film festival. Lost Islands, a film taking its title from a 1970s Australian television series (which amassed a cult following in Israel), kicked off proceedings. By telling…
Naomi Klein is doing something right
Naomi Klein, one of the world’s leading Jewish critics of Israel, is attacked in Canada’s National Post for an essay she wrote as a student and others crimes of humanity: As a college student in 1990, Klein wrote an editorial (see here) for the University of Toronto’s student newspaper The Varsity, entitled “Victim to victimizer.”…
Israel isn’t mature enough to examine its crimes
Yet more Zionist anger over the UN’s Gaza report. The American Jewish Committee writes in the New York Times that the UN is biased against Israel and the Jewish state is the eternal victim. The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg desperately claims that anti-Semitism is actually the real reason behind criticism of Israel: A number of loyal…
2ser Fourth Estate radio on My Israel Question
I was interviewed last week on Sydney independent radio station 2ser’s Fourth Estate program about my book My Israel Question, Gaza and the Middle East:
Not all Islamists see Israel and Jews in the same way
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad continues his foul Holocaust denial during a speech today for “Jerusalem Day” at the University of Tehran. The Hamas leader, interviewed by Ken Livingstone in this week’s New Statesman, offers many insights, including this: The conflict is the outcome of aggression and occupation. Our struggle against the Israelis is not because…