Israeli-American Joseph Dana, residing in Jerusalem, asks a profound question about modern-day Israel: does violence pay and are religious, Jewish fundamentalists the acceptable face of mainstream Zionism? The settler movement routinely uses violence against the authorities of the state with little or no ramifications. I am not referring to acts of violence against Palestinians, which…
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When the Jewish and Christian Right combine
First, we have an Israeli government wanting to forbid Arabs students from learning their history. Now, religious fundamentalists of a different kind: The Christian right is making a fresh push to force religion onto the school curriculum in Texas with the state’s education board about to consider recommendations that children be taught that there would…
Find out the Gaza truth now
It’s a start, from inside Israel itself: Yesterday’s Haaretz featured a front-page petition, signed by well-known Israeli writers, artists, entertainers, and intellectuals on the center-left side of the political spectrum, calling for an independent investigation into the IDF’s conduct of the Gaza Operation. Here’s the petition in Hebrew.
Who is the junkie in this deal?
Michael Oren, the new Israeli Ambassador to the US, tells Jeffrey Goldberg about the complex relationship between America and Israel: Israel needs the political and economic support of American Jewry, and American Jewry increasingly needs the spiritual infusion of the Jewish state. … In recent years, we have found that a 10-day visit to the…
The tale of a disgruntled, occupied force
Illegal, Jewish settlers in the West Bank worry about their safety. Perhaps they should think a little harder about why some Palestinians dislike being thrown off their lands.
The full Israeli/Palestinian history is necessary
Many Zionists (sometimes rightly) accuse Palestinian school children of not being taught the full picture of the Middle East. How is this decision by Israel any less democratic (and Israel claims to be a democracy)? The Israeli government will remove references to what Palestinians call the “catastrophe” of Israel’s creation from textbooks for Arab schoolchildren,…
Featuring Hitler a little too close to Israel
A report on 80 + 1 by Californian technlogy writer (and friend) Cyrus Farivar: Jews and Palestinians in Israel have been at each others’ throats basically since the British showed up and screwed everything up. It’s been an intractable struggle that’s been going on for the better part of a century. The latest episode incarnation…
Loewenstein sucks, says Jew
The following letter appeared in a recent edition of the Australian Jewish News: Sorry Sal Salbe, but on balance, Greg Sheridan is correct (AJN 10/07). Antony Loewenstein might occasionally criticise the Iranian regime on his blog, but compared to his repeated and hysterical media condemnations of Israel he is, as Sheridan phrased it, listless. Proof…
A response to the Israeli Cellcom advert
From the weekly Bil’in demo in mid-July: (The original Cellcom ad, a racist piece of Zionist propaganda).
Australian thinker mentions the Holocaust, again
Raimond Gaita is a leading Jewish, Australian intellectual. Like so many of them, he expresses profound ignorance and intolerance towards the Palestinian narrative and the recent Gaza war. Truth is forgotten when it comes to backing the Jewish state. The moral blind-spot is revealed yet again. Independent Australian Jewish Voices writer Michael Brull investigates. UPDATE:…