Akiva Eldar writes in Haaretz of where the real power lies in Israel: Rather than demand an apology, the Israeli peace camp needs to send Moshe “Bogie” Ya’alon a large bouquet of flowers. The videotaped appearance of the vice premier before a group of Feiglinites last week is worth its weight in gold. His statements…
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Israel will soon pay a price for ignoring decency
Step by step, global public opinion is realising that direct action is the only way to isolate Israel and highlight its crimes: The British Fire Brigades Union (FBU), which represents 85% of firefighters and support staff in Britain, plans to move motions at the Trade Union Congress’s (TUC) annual congress in September for the British…
Anti-Zionism as a contribution to world peace
The following letter appears in this week’s Australian Jewish News: Dr Colin Rubenstein and others, who made a fuss about Hanan Ashrawi receiving the [Sydney Peace Prize] honour several years ago, have been truly vindicated [John Pilger won this year.] Maybe next year they will give the prize to Hizbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, or maybe…
Herding non-Jews around like cattle
Israel’s increasingly draconian restrictions on Palestinians (and others) entering Israel and the occupied territories receives coverage in Time magazine: When Canadian businessman Sam Ismail brought his wife and five children to visit his brother’s family in Ramallah last week, he planned to stay for 10 days and tour both Israel and the Palestinian territories. They…
Zionists shout loudly and people laugh, part 6532
Following Israeli academic Neve Gordon’s call in the LA Times for a boycott of Israel, some American Jews have taken the bait. As usual. Magnes Zionist explains: This has got to be one of the funniest stories of the dog days of August. Never Gordon, a leftwing professor at Ben-Gurion University, published an op-ed in…
The day a Jew become an elected man in Fatah
Uri Davis, an Israeli-Palestinian Jew with a long history of challenging Israeli apartheid in Palestine, recently made a very unique record: the first Israeli Jew to be elected to Fatah. The Observer reports today: What does he hope to achieve as a Palestinian Hebrew who is a full member of the Revolutionary Council? His core…
Brutality brought to you by Zionist military service
The following article, which appeared in Israel’s right-wing paper Maariv, was translated by Keren Rubinstein and distributed by the Middle East News Service. The author is the editor of the arts and culture supplement: With baton in hand: that’s us Shai Lahav The wide public debate about violence has ignored one of the most basic…
A Jewish nation of crooks and spivs
Uri Avnery on the increasingly fascist rumblings of the Israeli political elite. This is what Zionists the world over are supporting when they refuse to criticise the obvious signs: Israel in 2009 is a state largely run by criminals, racists and quasi-fascists: My first thought was: Good God, this man was responsible for the lives…
What Zionism has created for itself through occupation
As somebody who visits the West Bank weekly with Israeli peace group Ta’ayush to protect Palestinians from Israeli soldiers and mad settlers, American-Israeli Joseph Dana knows what he’s talking about: I do not think that one can act morally as a soldier in Israel’s occupation. One is forced to do too many immoral acts day…
Jews who hate Arabs (and the state that backs it)
The reality of Jewish fascism in Israel isn’t a fringe mentality; it’s a growing minority of Jews who despise Arabs and believe Israel is given to us by God. Fat chance. I spent a great deal of time observing these people during my recent visit to Israel and the West Bank. It is a reality…