My following article was recently published on Mondoweiss: Antony Loewenstein writes from East Jerusalem: The occupation hits you from the very beginning. Arriving at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, I caught a shared shuttle to East Jerusalem. I noticed an advertisement mentioning service to a number of settlements. It’s simply a normal part of…
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Most crimes are tolerated
A fascinating post by The Magnes Zionist, written here in Jerusalem, that discusses the ways in which IDF abuse in Gaza and the occupied territories is tolerated by the mainstream of Israeli society: I don’t think that the IDF, under the present circumstances, can be seriously reformed. The problem is not with the IDF; it…
Not so silent anymore in Israel/Palestine
A forthcoming mini-documentary by Max Blumenthal and David Jacobus about dissent in Israel and what many of us are currently thinking: why and how?
So this is what the US means about balance
What matters in the Middle East conflict is arms and money. So: The US administration is going to increase defense aid that is given to Israel in 2010 to USD 2.775 billion as part of the gradual increase in aid to USD 30 billion over the course of a ten-year period. In the coming years…
When the lobby likes to tell lies
The following letter appeared in the Australian Jewish News on July 10: Last week a member of the Jewish community was slandered in the media but I’m not expecting Jamie Hyams’ “Media Week” column to point out the glaring unfairness of the description. Why? Because the person was the community’s enfant terrible, Antony Loewenstein. I…
The real stories behind the Gaza outrage
Israeli human rights group Breaking the Silence has released a devastating report of testimonies from Israeli soldiers who saw and did horrible things during this year’s Gaza war. Read it here, here and here. The world’s most moral army, indeed.
Making occupation clean and friendly
Being here in Israel and Palestine, something I hear time and time again is the desperate need for life to be “normal”. Both sides want it, but only one is living under occupation. Due to Israeli human rights groups, the US and even Israeli pragmatism, the West Bank occupation is getting nicer by the day.…
When standing is a threat
Another way that Israel wants to break the back of resistance to its occupation: Adeeb Abu Rahme, a leading Palestinian non-violent peace activist was arrested in the weekly Bil’in demonstration against the Apartheid Wall (see the video, Adeeb is the protester in the orange shirt with the mega-phone). The Israeli military is charging Adeeb with…