My following letter appears in today’s Australian newspaper: Campaigning for universal human rights means condemning occupation and brutality wherever it occurs, whether in a US-backed client state such as Israel or a dictatorship like Iran. A moral blind spot won’t suffice. Greg Sheridan (“West’s hypocrites betray Iranians”, Opinion, 2/7) accuses me of ignoring gross abuses…
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What punishment will they receive?
The Western-funded and armed rogue state: Amnesty International on Thursday accused Israeli forces of war crimes, saying they used children as human shields and conducted wanton attacks on civilians during their offensive in the Gaza Strip. The London-based human rights group also accused Hamas of war crimes, but said it found no evidence that the…
Don’t speak to Nokia
The role of Western multinationals assisting repressive regimes is now ubiquitous. Iran is just the latest. One American-based, Muslim group is resisting: Back in April The CRIME Report reported that Nokia had provided the Iranian regime with an advanced data monitoring center. The full implications of Nokia’s partnership did not become clear until a few…
A shame Obama didn’t condemn this kind of abuse
Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas, who I profile in my book The Blogging Revolution, is facing the wrath of the US-backed dictatorship: Reporters Without Borders condemns well-known Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas’s arrest on “national security” grounds at Cairo airport on 29 June on his return from Sweden, where he openly criticised the Egyptian government at a…
A Zionist principle I reject
The Magnes Zionist blog on Israel’s inherently discriminatory Right of Return laws: The Law of Return inherently discriminates against a group of people – who happen to be citizens and natives — on the basis of ethnicity alone.
Every inch is against the law
Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch, reminds the world of a few inconvenient facts: The debate over Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories is often framed in terms of whether they should be “frozen” or allowed to grow “naturally.” But that is akin to asking whether a thief should be…
Young Tamils take up the fight
This site has reguarly discussed the massacres in Sri Lanka and the oppression of the Tamil people. For the global Tamil Diaspora, the war is far from over. Time magazine reports: Many Tamil youth living around the world became committed to raising awareness of Sri Lanka’s plight in the West after they visited their parents’…
Killing any prospect for peace
The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions released the following statement on June 29: The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and Rabbis for Human Rights-Shomrei Mishpat welcome the Jerusalem Municipality’s announcement that it is considering a freeze on the demolition of 70% of the so-called “illegal” Palestinians homes built without a permit. The Deputy Mayor…
Oh darling, beat me with that box
What does a Western-embraced dictator do with a woman who loves to invade countries and break things? Libya’s leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi showered then-US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice with gifts during her historic visit to Tripoli last year, according to a government report.Gaddafi, who did not hide his admiration for the woman he called…
Get used to the company, Jews
Iran is burning. Not to worry, the Jewish Forward reports: “Already, in Washington policy circles, the Israelis’ mantra, let’s bomb them, has gone off the table,” said Marshall Breger, a former Reagan and Bush senior White House aide and Orthodox Jew who has been engaged in interfaith dialogue with senior Iranian clerics. “It’s not considered…