Zionists, better spend more on fruitless PR, me thinks: Many more Australians think that Israel’s military action in the Gaza Strip in January this year was not justified, a new poll conducted by Roy Morgan Research finds. And more Australians generally have sympathy for the Palestinians than the Israelis in the Middle Eastern conflict.
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Yes, we still occupy them
Thank God some Israelis are still protesting the West Bank occupation: Thousands of left-wing activists marched in Tel Aviv Saturday marking “42 years of occupation”. Protestors were chanting: “End the occupation – start living”. I guess it’s far easier to hate Arabs than actually wonder why Palestinians aren’t that fond of you.
Murdoch fans the flames
Yesterday’s shooting at Washington’s Holocaust Museum was partly due to the rise of anti-Zionism in the US. So says Fox News: Or, in another Fox News special, perhaps Hitler was actually a leftist…with a direct line to yesterday’s shooting?
The Jews who really need an Iranian bad-man
MJ Rosenberg gets it in one: Foreign Policy’s Laura Rozen has a great piece on what might be happening in Iran. The madman could lose. It seems like almost too much to hope for. But, as I noted earlier, there is some evidence that the neocons are worried. They want Ahmadinejad in there because without…
It’s more than just swiping your plastic
Israeli peace group Gush Shalom alerts the world to the direct complicity of Mastercard in the West Bank colonial project: The holders of an Isracard and/or Mastercard credit cards in Israel have received in the past weeks an offer for a “City of David tour” with “attractions for the entire family” – an innocuous sounding…
Full marks for chutzpah
Dream on, Israel, you’re tied to the US, and if you want to survive there ain’t a damn thing you can do about it: In a sign of growing concern in Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government over US President Barack Obama’s Middle East policies, Minister-without-Portfolio Yossi Peled proposed Israeli sanctions on the US in a…
This is the answer?
Ron Kampeas of JTA has an idea how to better sell Zionism to the world: Israel could — with some degree of success — portray the occupation as relatively benign. Look, the Palestinians have a free press (sometimes). They go to universities (sometimes). They elect their own mayors (once). Yes, those Arabs really don’t mind…
Perhaps not the best rep
If the UN retains any dignity, this move must be firmly rejected: Egypt is pushing hard to get its culture minister named as the head of the UN agency promoting cultural diversity. But as Farouk Hosni heads to Paris Wednesday to campaign for the job, he has to overcome controversy over his comments vowing to…
Free Ezra
A message from Jewish Voice for Peace: Join Naomi Klein, Neve Gordon, Noam Chomsky and thousands of others and tell Israel not to jail Ezra Nawi, one of Israel’s most courageous human rights activists. His crime? He tried to stop a military bulldozer from destroying the homes of Palestinian Bedouins in the South Hebron region.…
Obama hates Jews, did you hear?
Zionist fanatic Anne Bayefsky thinks Barack Obama has sold out the poor Jews: President Obama’s Cairo speech was nothing short of an earthquake — a distortion of history, an insult to the Jewish people, and an abandonment of very real human-rights victims in the Arab and Muslim worlds. It is not surprising that Arabs and…