This Haaretz headline speaks for itself: Israeli Minister to Swedish Jews: Anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism I guess that settles the matter then.
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Israel murders Arabs in Gaza and then asks for a cuddle
The UN report on Israeli massacres in Gaza has received the predictable Israeli response. Victimhood, victimhood and victimhood. Over 1400 Palestinian civilians were murdered but we’re supposed to feel deep empathy for the Israelis. Nice try. Perhaps the most priceless comments were from President Shimon Peres: The report in practice grants legitimacy to terrorism, premeditated…
American Radical; a key film about Jewish questioning
American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein has just been screened in the US for the first time: The film-makers have given me a preview screening of the film. It’s a powerful work, revealing the history of Finkelstein himself and his leading critics. In many ways, I feel deep sympathy for Finkelstein, a man who…
Please keep changing the topic and don’t talk about Palestine
Following the speech in parliament by Labor MP Michael Danby against the supposed evils of Israel criticism (and Crikey’s Guy Rundle in response), today’s Crikey publishes these letters: Michael Danby, the Federal Member for Melbourne Ports, writes: Re. “Rundle: No wonder Danby is pissed off” (Monday, item 12). Eric Beecher, the owner of Crikey has…
How many US citizens know they are funding illegal settlements?
Not before time: Israeli peace activists are planning to ratchet up their campaign against groups in the United States that raise money for settlers by highlighting how tax exemptions are helping to fund the expansion of illegal settlements in the West Bank. Gush Shalom, a small peace group that advocates Israel’s withdrawal from the occupied…
Israeli who use the Holocaust to make a cheap point
Jewish writer Shraga Elam posts an interesting piece of news about the Israeli mindset: Below is another example of Israeli bad taste and abuse of the Nazi Judeocide. The German soccer club FC Bayern Munich played yesterday against the Israeli team Maccabi Haifa and the game was held in Israel. According to a ynet report…
Abuses in the name of Zionist security
Yet more evidence that the recent Gaza war was a travesty: A United Nations fact-finding mission investigating the three-week war in Gaza issued a lengthy, scathing report on Tuesday that concluded that both the Israeli military and Palestinian armed groups committed actions amounting to war crimes, and possibly crimes against humanity. The four-member mission, led…
Why are the Palestinians romancing a rogue Sri Lanka?
Yet more evidence that the Western-backed Palestinian Authority is a) clueless about the true nature of the Sri Lankan regime (ie. barbarism against the Tamils) b) unaware that Israel helped arm the government in its recent war or c) desperate to appear close to a state that now loves Israel: Palestinian National Authority has decided…
Hold Israel to fair standards or pay the price
The justified outrage over the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) spotlighting Tel Aviv (and ignoring Israel’s occupation and abuses in the West Bank and Gaza) is rightly causing waves. Naomi Klein explains that critics who accuse us of demonising Israel are deliberately missing the point: Imagine that this year the Toronto International Film Festival had…
Brazil is unwilling to normalise relations with Israel
After speaking today at an event at Sydney University about the academic and cultural boycott of Israel – there is deep support for the movement but also profound denial by many Zionists, unable to understand that “democratic” Israel should be targeted – this is welcome news: The Brazilian Parliamentary Commission on Foreign Relations and National…