The following statement was just released by two leading Jewish Australian academics, John Docker and Ned Curthoys: The December 2008 Gaza Massacre We are part of an increasing number of people around the world of Jewish descent who are sickened by the coldly calculated massacre of the Palestinians of Gaza and who utterly repudiate Israel’s…
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So much for free speech
The Iranian press watchdog shut down leading reformist newspaper Kargozaran on Wednesday over publication of a piece criticising Palestinian militants, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Zionist hyperbole contestants
The keffiyeh is…the new swastika. Condemning Israeli war crimes is clearly akin to supporting Hitler. Surely the “distinguished” Israel apologist Alan Dershowitz would agree?
Oh to be a good little client state
Robert Fisk writes that “The rotten state of Egypt is too powerless and corrupt to act” during the current Gaza onslaught. Why? Because it’s a brutal US ally that knows where its bread is buttered.
The voice of Jewish ethics
Sara Roy, Christian Science Monitor, January 2: I hear the voices of my friends in Gaza as clearly as if we were still on the phone; their agony echoes inside me. They weep and moan over the death of their children, some, little girls like mine, taken, their bodies burned and destroyed so senselessly. One…
Some Iranian solidarity
Different groups representing Iran’s Jewish community on Tuesday gathered in front of the United Nations office in Teheran in order to protest “Israeli war crimes and the slaughter of the innocent people in Gaza Strip,” the Iranian IRNA news agency reported. The protesters, led by the Jewish representative in Parliament, Siamak Mara-Sedq, carried placards with…
No crisis means there is a crisis
Clearly disgraced Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert likes his country’s handywork: Gaza is not undergoing a humanitarian crisis. We’re constantly supplying it with food and medications, and there’s no need for a humanitarian cease-fire. No crisis? Murdering civilians must make Zionists the world over so proud.
Israel no victim
The following article, co-written with Peter Slezak, was published today on ABC Unleashed: Vic Alhadeff is a senior Zionist organisation official. His Unleashed article provides an opportunity for analysis that is instructive about our media and intellectual culture. The very persuasiveness of Alhadeff’s case for Israel is the reason it deserves attention. It misrepresents the…
Which side of history?
Zionist blogger Jeffrey Golberg writes: It’s a strange world, but there you have it. I’ve been talking to friends of mine, former Palestinian Authority intelligence officials (ejected from power by the Hamas coup), and they tell me that not only are they rooting for the Israelis to decimate Hamas, but that Fatah has actually been…