American film-maker Max Blumenthal attends a “pro-Israel” rally in New York to support the war against Gaza: No one I spoke to could seem to find any circumstance in which they would begin to question Israel’s war. No number of civilian deaths, no displays of extreme suffering –nothing could deter their enthusiasm for attacking one…
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Failure on every count
The conflict between Israel and Hamas should give us cause to pause and wonder what the Jewish state has become. War crimes are taking place: “There is no doubt that Israel is using phosphorous bombs over Gaza. Israel is flagrantly violating the Fourth Geneva Convention,” says Raji Sourani, head of the Palestinian Center for Human…
Not reporters, shameless hacks
You would think journalists who take free trips to Israel paid for by Zionist organisations would disclose such visits. You would be wrong.
Let’s equal the equation
Dr. Ahmed Yousef, Hamas Deputy Foreign Minister and Former Senior Adviser to Prime Minister Ismail Haniyah in Gaza, asks a question: It is clear that attacking Hamas is tacitly sanctioned while civilian deaths, the statistical majority, are tolerated. If the world believes then that to kill Palestinians for their beliefs is tolerable, then it is…
Talk. To. Your. Enemy.
The former senior British diplomat Sir Jeremy Greenstock tells the BBC that engaging Hamas is inevitable, unavoidable and necessary.
The way not to win war
Such a noble goal to defeat an “enemy”, Hamas, that is impossible to defeat: Israel supporters respond to the cyber-attacks launched by Islamic hackers through DDoS. A group of students have developed an application that allows Israel sympathizers to use their computer resources and Internet bandwith in order to knock Palestinian websites offline. The online…
This is one way forward
Boycotts [against Israel] may achieve what bombs and guns can’t. As a previous opponent of the boycott, divestment and sanction movement, I now support it. I share the position of Naomi Klein who argues that it is the only moral response to the Jewish state’s barbarity towards the Palestinians. Plus: The reason the BDS strategy…
This is where the truth should lie
Robert Fisk speaking on the BBC: It is the job of journalists to be impartial on the side of those who suffer most.