One more example of how the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel is gathering steam, mostly far away from the mainstream media. The Edinburgh Film Festival, after pressure from the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC) and film-maker Ken Loach, has decided against accepting money from the Israeli Embassy. Loach’s statement was strong: I’m…
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They will never forget
Al-Jazeera English on the Palestinian day of mourning, May 15, reported from a devastated Gaza:
Pick apartheid or freedom, your choice
Palestinian MP Haneen Zoabi tells the Age why a Jewish state is utterly incompatible with democracy: I do not accept Zionism. How could I support a movement that, by design, excludes me? My struggle is for a state that governs for all of its citizens, not one that discriminates against people because they are not…
This is not about an existential threat, and repeat after me
Haaretz journalist Reuven Pedatzur cuts through the spin: The continual harping on the Iranian threat stems from domestic Israeli politics and a desire to increase investment in the security realm…
Please let us bomb Iran for the world’s sake
Dan Diker, the foreign policy analyst at the neo-conservative Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, outlines his perspective on the upcoming meeting between Barack Obama and Benyamin Netanyahu: One of the difficult differences between Netanyahu and Obama concerns their fundamentally different views over the linkage of the Palestinian-Israeli peace process to the containment of Iran’s nuclear…
Seven Palestinian children
The global controversy over the play Seven Jewish Children – played out in Australia as well by a handful of paranoid Jews who see anti-Semitism under their dinner tables – now has a Palestinian brother. Mondoweiss reports: Tell her that Dr. Salman [Abu Sitta, chronicler of erased Palestine] warns the Jewish people: “. . .…
We cannot forget 1948 and we won’t
Palestinian MP Haneen Zoabi (interviewed on Radio National Breakfast on Friday) spoke to ABC Radio PM last night. This took place before a well-attended event at New South Wales Parliament House last night to commemorate 61 years since the Nakba of Palestinian dispossession. Zoabi was the key speaker, in front of parliamentarians and members of…
Welcome, now please come and see our Holocaust memorial
Bernard Avishai on the troubled Israeli soul: …In the early 1960s, Israeli elites saw the Jewish state so much as a pioneering adventure–the culture of Hebrew labor, the dignity of self-defense–that they tended to bury talk of the Holocaust, which seemed to them a symbol of Diaspora Jewry’s woeful path. Ben-Gurion staged the Eichmann trial…
A Sydney paper starts opening its eyes
A senior journalist at the Sydney Morning Herald tells me that the relatively new editor is keen to show to the Zionist lobby that he can’t be intimidated. The last months have been an interesting ride. Hardly revolutionary but a noticeable shift. First an editorial in March telling Jews to accept wider views on the…
When the anti-Semitic smear is all they have
Following a letter in yesterday’s Age about the ability of Jews to openly debate the Middle East, the letter below appears in response in today’s paper: I write to clarify the misrepresentations of Ingrid Weinberg (Letters, 14/5). When Dr Ghada Karmi came to Australia at the invitation of the Sydney Writers Festival in 2003, she…