Encouragingly, a number of Rabbis have publicly come out and backed Richard Goldstone: Dear Judge Goldstone, As rabbis from diverse traditions and locations, we want to extend our warmest mazel tov to you as an elder in our community upon the bar mitzvah of your grandson. Bar and Bat Mitzvah is a call to conscience,…
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How the West Bank movement is inspiring Gaza
A day in the life of a non-violent protest leader in the Gaza Strip.
Insecure Zionism, an ongoing series
Another nail in the coffin of Israeli “democracy”, a fanciful word that always meant discrimination against non-Jews: A new report and billboard campaign launched by Israeli group Im Tirtzu – the Second Zionist Revolution” accuses at least twelve Israeli human rights groups of support for or involvement in the indictment of Israeli officials for serious…
Threats to shut down Haaretz and silence any questions
An important by Jonathan Cook in The National that reveals the depressing state of intellectual debate in Israel. If you aren’t for the state, get out of the country, so the thinking goes. Dissent is frowned upon, to put it mildly: An Arab member of the Israeli parliament is demanding that a newspaper be allowed…
Hamas is not above murdering its enemies
Israeli human rights group B’Tselem rightly condemns the thuggish behaviour of Hamas: B’Tselem strongly condemns the execution today of two Palestinians convicted of collaboration with Israel, by the Hamas government in Gaza. The death penalty is immoral and violates the basic right to life of every human being. B’Tselem holds that under no circumstance must…
Goldstone barred from his grandson’s bar-mitzvah
Almost comical and yet utterly parochial and pathetic: Judge Richard Goldstone, who authored a damning report accusing Israel of committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip, has reportedly been banned by pro-Israel activists from attending his grandson’s bar mitzvah in his native South Africa. According to the report circulating on Web logs, the South African…
Israel isn’t a normal country, tell the OECD
A letter that anybody can and should send to a country representative of the OECD: The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is scheduled to convene in May 2010 in order to take a formal decision on Israel’s application for membership in the Organization. A vote for Israel’s accession to the OECD will be…
How Israel markets the joys in Gaza
The latest edition of Gaza Gateway: The following guide was inspired by a report by the Government of Israel, summarizing Israel’s humanitarian activities for the Gaza Strip in 2009 and at the start of 2010, which was submitted yesterday to the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee. Take things out of context. When you say that, “41…
ABC Radio National documentary about the Gaza Freedom March and Jewish identity
Last December I attended the Gaza Freedom March in Cairo to highlight the plight of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. For the last months I’ve worked on a radio documentary feature for ABC Radio National’s 360 program, the country’s finest space for long-form radio work. Alongside co-producer Sharon Davis and sound engineer Timothy Nicastri, we…