Sydney-based film-maker Daz Chandler has made this short documentary about free speech, the Israel lobby, Australian media, bashing Muslims, yours truly and Palestine:
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The West Bank is still occupied, Washington
Please tell me that American diplomats read this story in Haaretz and aren’t fooled: The Israel Defense Forces has canceled a number of planned arrest operations in the West Bank fearing soldiers will be seen by American diplomats touring the territories. IDF officers serving with their units in the West Bank said they were instructed…
How Hamas shoots itself in the foot
Inept, racist and bigoted fool: A Hamas spiritual leader on Monday called teaching Palestinian children about the Nazi murder of 6 million Jews a “war crime,” rejecting a suggestion that the U.N. might include the Holocaust in Gaza’s school curriculum… Hamas spiritual leader Younis al-Astal lashed out after hearing that the U.N. Relief and Works…
Once were Jewish terrorists
Former Australian diplomat Bruce Haigh in the Canberra Times: As they say, history is written by the victors. Equally it might be said that commentary and analysis are provided by those with access to power and influence. During negotiations over the formation of Israel, frustrated Zionists, members of an organisation known as the Stern Gang,…
Boycotts are the new tool of pressuring Israel
The debate over film-maker Ken Loach’s pressure on the Melbourne International Film Festival to refuse Israeli government funding continues. The festival’s director expressed his view last week in the Guardian. Today, Loach, his producer and writer respond: When we decided to pull our film Looking for Eric from the Melbourne International Film festival following our…
Survey puts Israel and Zionism under scrutiny
My following article appears in Crikey: Monash University’s Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation has released the preliminary findings of its survey of Australian and New Zealand Jewry in which… 6200 Jewish people answered 144 questions on a variety of subjects, including anti-Semitism, Israel and Zionism, inter-marriage, education and identity. It’s the biggest study of its sort…
When words in the Middle East have no meaning
The following directive was just sent out internally by SBS News and Current Affairs: As Middle East peace talks gather momentum once again, it is important that all programs take care in the language used to describe the Occupied Territories. Recently the SBS Ombudsman ruled the use of the term “Palestinian land” in a World…
Is Iran soon to be hit without US backing?
Micah Zenko, fellow in the Centre for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations, writes in the Los Angeles Times that the Islamic Republic should get prepared: Iran has until late September to respond to the latest international proposal aimed at stopping the Islamic Republic from developing a nuclear weapon. Under the proposal, Iran…
Media advocating bombing runs over Iran
The Wall Street Journal and Jerusalem Post have already decided that a military strike against Iran is long overdue. The worst friends Zionism ever had.
My Israel Question Sydney launch
My Israel Question will have its Sydney launch on 17 September at Gleebooks in conversation with Australia’s leading foreign correspondent, Paul McGeough: At this event, Antony Loewenstein will have just returned from the Middle East and Paul McGeough from Afghanistan. Loewenstein and McGeough are the foremost Australian journalists and writers covering these war-torn, troubled countries.…