An interesting new Australian blog, Jew on This, discusses politics, Palestine and pondering. A recent post looks at the reasons more Jews are turning away from Israel: Something that interests me is that most of my Jewish friends who are not Zionists were once Zionists. We went to Zionist Jewish schools, some went to Zionist…
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Zionism enjoys expansion, discuss
Israel and the West Bank “outposts”; an abusive relationship with two willing partners: If George Mitchell, America’s special envoy to the Middle East, wants an advance estimate on the reliability of Israeli promises to evacuate outposts, he may find the High Court of Justice discussion on the outpost of Migron helpful. The state’s request to…
Jews only, please
The London Guardian reports on a sad tale of Jewish exclusivity and wanting to maintain the ghetto: The Chief Rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks, issued a rallying cry for Jews today to defend their schools from English law after the court of appeal decided that admission on the basis of a parent’s Jewish status was discriminatory.…
‘If You Don’t Agree With Us You’re Antisemitic’
My latest New Matilda column, co-written with Independent Australian Jewish Voices blogger Michael Brull, responds to predictable charges of political bias by the Zionist lobby: Labor MP Michael Danby’s accusation of antisemitism against two Jewish writers is a false and dangerous misuse of that term, write the accused, Michael Brull and Antony Loewenstein Sometimes, people…
Needing and wanting Hamas
Bitterlemons asks an obvious question: Can Hamas be part of the political process? It can and must be.
A world with no more Palestinians
Flipping Out is a 2008 documentary about Israeli men and women who finish military service and head to India. The picture is ugly; racist and aggressive:
Welcome to Israel’s mad future
Australian journalist Anne Barker explains being attacked by a riotous crowd of ultra-Orthodox Jews protesting the opening of a carpark on the Sabbath: … I was aware that earlier protests had erupted into violence on previous weekends – Orthodox Jews throwing rocks at police, or setting rubbish bins alight, even throwing dirty nappies or rotting…
When Jewish insecurity is something to celebrate
Here’s yet another example of Zionist self-congratulation and self-obsession. The Atlantic writer Jeffrey Goldberg interviews Michael Oren, the new Israeli ambassador to the US. In this clip at least, no mention of Arabs, Palestinians or the occupation. Oren has many of his own issues but it strikes me that Zionists are increasingly feeling like they…
Jews and Arabs will be hugging within years
Bernard Avishai thinks he knows how to solve the Middle East crisis.
