An interesting article in the San Francisco Chronicle about Israel’s never-ending campaign to remove Palestinian identity: Peace will remain elusive so long as Israel’s approach to Palestinian refugees is to erase them from history; when Palestinian property in the West Bank continues to be expropriated and developed for Israel; or when Palestinian families must be…
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Australia’s role in this messy, Mid-East affair
A sordid tale of the Australian Labor Party’s relationship to Israel and the growing international moves to work with unions against apartheid in Palestine.
When the state is really out of control
The ongoing ethnic cleansing in East Jerusalem is challenged by a good Haaretz editorial: The sight of the evicted Palestinian families, who had lived in these houses for decades, paints Israel in the world’s eyes as a country that maintains a cruel regime of occupation, oppresses the weak and strives to create political facts in…
Resisting occupation by a party of volunteers
The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions hosts an annual camp for visitors to learn about the occupation and assist the building of a home for a Palestinian family. Here’s a report by a volunteer on the first day: I am here as part of a 60-member delegation to the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions seventh…
Terrorists and haters, the lot of them
There are “no moderate Palestinians“, screams the headline in Israel’s biggest daily newspaper. I guess this means that Israel can continue occupying the Palestinians forever.
My Israel Question returns
The third edition of my first book, My Israel Question, is released in September by Melbourne University Publishing: Antony’s Loewenstein’s My Israel Question was a bestseller when first published and generated a storm of controversy, critical praise and robust public debate. Loewenstein’s forensic discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues here in a fully updated and…
Paying for your own destruction
A revealing video from April featuring children cleaning up rubble after a house demolition in the Old City of East Jerusalem when their home was destroyed by Israeli military. If the rubble is not cleaned up the family will be charged $600 a day along with paying for the house demolition itself.
A democracy increasingly in name only
The Israeli government’s decision to target NGOs that criticise its behaviour towards the Palestinians is given appropriate context by leading peace activist Jeff Halper: Every dictator, from Hitler to Milosevic, has said that there must be no interference in their sovereign affairs, and that everyone else should butt out. But international law says human rights…
The Zionist lobby’s bastard child
I wrote this morning about Orly Taitz, the woman behind the Obama “fake” birth certificate controversy. Now some more about this mysterious woman: Orly Taitz claims that she is merely a “lawyer,” with a purely “legal” interest in the details of Obama’s birth, but I obviously suspect there’s more to her Obama birth obsession than…
How to be crazy in Israel and happy
Yoel Marcus in Haaretz: The ready availability of weapons in a country where the entire nation is in the army has turned us into a violent society. It was truly unbelievable to see a soldier shooting a bound Palestinian in the leg while his commander held the man down. Or to see border policemen freely…