Salon’s Glenn Greenwald on the frustration of Zionist neo-conservatives who only imagine a world with violence and occupation: Neocons arrogate unto themselves the right to make appeals to what they believe is the “dual loyalty” of American Jews — most of whom, in fact, reject their radical ideology — when trying to coerce support for…
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Gideon Levy, a Jewish beacon
Haaretz reporter Gideon Levy, one of Israel’s finest investigators of the occupation, is interviewed by In These Times and reveals once again why his voice is central to highlighting Israel’s moral decline: How did you get from there to where you are now: a journalist famous for ferociously speaking out for Palestinian human rights and…
The West Bank terror
Roi Maor and Dror Etkes write in Haaretz: The settlement issue has been at the top of the public agenda for the past several months, with the Israeli political scene abuzz in the face of talks between the Israeli government and envoys of U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration on a “freeze” of construction work in…
Jews should only be tough, aggressive and angry
Following the publication of this weekend’s New York Times Magazine feature on the rise of J Street and more liberal Jewry, hardline Zionists have responded with anger (God forbid that Judaism is shown as anything other than violent). Here’s the Jerusalem Post’s Shmuel Rosner: J Street is “bringing highly placed Israeli peaceniks to spread their…
Jews occupy Arabs because they’re a threat
Following my article in the Canberra Times this week outlining the harsh realities in the West Bank and Gaza, this letter is published in the paper today: Antony Loewenstein (”Drop rose-coloured views to lift Gaza peace hopes”, September 9, p11) claims that Hamas is boycotted because Israel and the West refuse to accept its election.…
US-backed shock troops to silence Palestinian voices
Some in the global media (example number one) are enthralled by the Western-backed Palestinian Authority, allegedly building a civic society in the West Bank. In fact, writes Mohammed Khatib,the secretary of Bil’in’s Village Council and a leading member of Bil’in’s Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements, these measures are actively engaged to erase any…
Minute by minute planning to bomb the Islamic Republic
Amos Harel in Haaretz on the supposedly normal plans to bomb Iran: For an Israeli attack to be considered, Israel would need the tacit approval of the Obama administration, if only in the sense that it looks the other way. This is due above all to the necessity of passing through the Iraqi air corridor,…
Finally, with momentum against Israel, boycotts are discussed
Forward newspaper, a supposedly liberal Jewish paper in the US, editorialises against Desmond Tutu’s call for a boycott of Israel: His voice is authentic and experienced. It’s also South African. And by speaking as he does, by backing the Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, by implying that Israel resembles apartheid, Tutu…
How to be a tough Jewish man and fight for Israel
I attended the Salute to Israel parade in New York in late May. It was a joyous festival of Israel fellation and Jew love. A wonderful day to celebrate some Arab bashing. Eli Valley, whose column “Comics Rescued From a Burning Synagogue in Bialystok and Hidden in a Salt Mine Until After the War,” appears…
SBS Arabic radio on My Israel Question
I was interviewed this week on SBS Radio Arabic about my book My Israel Question, my observations of Gaza and the West Bank and the prospects of peace under Barack Obama (hint: not high):