Jonathan Cook writes how the bulk of the Western media based in Israel proper ignore the illegal, Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem: There are about half a million Jews living illegally on land occupied by Israel in the 1967 war. Give or take the odd few thousand (Israel is slow to update its figures), there…
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The face of modern Zionism is so pretty
Another day and another example of Zionist fanatics trying to silence alternative views on the Middle East. This was sent to me from The Berkeley Daily Planet: A few East Bay individuals are threatening to bankrupt the Berkeley Daily Planet unless it stops publishing criticisms of Israel’s policies and actions—opinions and ideas they brand “anti-Semitic.”…
Oh yes, those poor, little kids
Is this a joke? Rep. Gary L. Ackerman (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House foreign affairs subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia, said focusing on settlement activity “detracts” from top U.S. goals in the region. However, he added: “I do not support a settlement freeze that calls on Israeli families not to grow, get…
The occupation, day 76532
The separate May meetings in Washington between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signalled an undoubted shift from the Bush administration. Obama is reportedly examining ways he can pressure Israel to cease all settlement building in the West Bank, a reality that radically upsets the Zionist…
The people the world ignores
Harvard Middle East scholar Sara Roy writes in the Harvard Crimson about the forgotten world of Gaza: Gaza is an example of a society that has been deliberately reduced to a state of abject destitution, its once productive population transformed into one of aid-dependent paupers. This context is undeniably one of mass suffering, created largely…
How to pressure the abusers
An important message from US group Jewish Voice for Peace: Let CAT know what you think. We will hand-deliver your message. Next Wednesday, June 10th, 2009, Caterpillar will hold its annual shareholder meeting. For the sixth year in a row, Jewish Voice for Peace will be there to tell the company to get out of…
Hating Palestinians is just fine
I recently argued the case for free speech for even Holocaust deniers and the hypocrisy of Zionist groups that only care about supposed anti-Semitism and not racism in general. Now Michael Brull, blogger for Independent Australian Jewish Voices, has continued the argument: Australia’s Zionist lobbies recently scored what they consider a triumph. Frederick Toben of…
The mainstream does not speak for us
A Mondoweiss reader responds to my report on Sunday’s Salute to Israel parade: As a father and uncle of Jewish Day School students and a member of a very Zionistic extended family, I have great troubles with the parade every year.… I have not gone to the parade since I have been more educated about…
A perversion known as Arab-hatred
Following my Mondoweiss report on Sunday’s New York Salute to Israel parade, Rabbi Sid Schwarz writes in The Jewish Week that he was equally disturbed: …After the parade we heard that there was going to be an Israel-themed concert in Central Park so we decided to attend. It was a shock to the system. I…