Words fail (via the Independent): Israel has admitted for the first time that it has been giving Ethiopian Jewish immigrants birth-control injections, often without their knowledge or consent. The government had previously denied the practice but the Israeli Health Ministry’s director-general has now ordered gynaecologists to stop administering the drugs. According a report in Haaretz,…
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What just happened in Israeli election is many things; true democracy isn’t one of them
The final results of the Israeli election remain unclear. The Institute for Middle East Understanding has produced the following graphic which reveals the democracy deficit in Israel and Palestine:
Establishing Palestinian bantustans always the plan
Amira Hass in Haaretz: When Habayit Hayehudi party leader and rising political star Naftali Bennett calls for annexing Area C, the part of the West Bank under full Israeli security and civil control, he is following the logic of every single Israeli government: maximize the territory, minimize the Arabs. ”¦ Bennett can propose annexation because…
Israel’s unashamed racist future; welcome to Naftali Bennett
Ali Abunimah explains why this party, Jewish Home, is the best manifestation of where Israel is proudly headed: The Bennett phenomenon is simply more evidence that there are no internal forces within Zionism that can stop this descent to hell. Bennett’s rise is merely a reminder that efforts to isolate this pariah regime through boycott,…
“This is a Jewish neighbourhood”
Just another racist rally in Israel. This is the real Jewish state. Another great short film by David Sheen:
No, Kevin Rudd, boycotts against Israeli institutions aren’t anti-Semitic
Late last year Rupert Murdoch’s Australian newsletter ran a campaign against the head of Sydney University’s Centre of Peace and Conflict Studies, Jake Lynch, for bravely rejecting institutional links with occupation-supporting Israeli universities. Today former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd appears in the same paper with quotes implying that boycotts are anti-Semitic and concerned people should…
Obama dislikes Netanyahu and sees Israel’s growing isolation?
According to American Zionist journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, a man close to the White House, Barack Obama is pissed with Israel and his anger is only growing. Time will tell but we’re a long way from Washington sanctioning the Jewish state for its daily violations of international law: Shortly after the… United Nations General Assembly… voted in late…
What blind Zionism looks like; Palestinians invisible on Birthright
Great The Real News story by Max Blumenthal and Lia Tarachansky: