Dan Diker, the foreign policy analyst at the neo-conservative Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, outlines his perspective on the upcoming meeting between Barack Obama and Benyamin Netanyahu: One of the difficult differences between Netanyahu and Obama concerns their fundamentally different views over the linkage of the Palestinian-Israeli peace process to the containment of Iran’s nuclear…
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A Sydney paper starts opening its eyes
A senior journalist at the Sydney Morning Herald tells me that the relatively new editor is keen to show to the Zionist lobby that he can’t be intimidated. The last months have been an interesting ride. Hardly revolutionary but a noticeable shift. First an editorial in March telling Jews to accept wider views on the…
When every Arab is quiet, they’ll be happy
BBC reporter Jeremy Bowen was recently censured by the BBC Trust for “biased” reporting on the Middle East. It was just another attempt by the Zionist lobby to silence any criticism of Israel. And it will fail. But, argues British broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby, the costs could be great: Dimbleby said that Zionist publications, lobby groups…
Time to welcome open debate
Following yesterday’s article in the Australian newspaper by two supposed leftist academics praising Israel, my following letter appears in the paper today: Israel recent war against the Gazan people has caused many people around the world, including Jews, to reassess their support for Israel. With countless men, women and children murdered and the illegal use…
Another day, another own goal by the Zionist community
Following the story in the Melbourne Age yesterday of news that Jewish Care had cancelled a fund-raising performance by actress Miriam Margolyes due to her involvement in the play Seven Jewish Children, the paper today publishes the following letters: THOSE people who did not have a chance to hear Miriam Margolyes on Monday missed a…
Nationalist solidarity or nothing
Just another McCarthyist example of Canadian Zionists trying to silence alternative Jewish perspectives on the Middle East. Their fear of open debate grows by the day. First they came for the artwork, then the playwrights..
Let the locals manage our occupation
This is what Israel and the US consider “Palestinian independence“: Last Thursday, in what was billed as his very first on-the-record address, Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton, U.S. security coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority, spoke to the 2009 Soref Symposium organized by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. WINEP, of course, is the…
Fear in the lobby
My latest column for New Matilda is about the Zionist lobby and its hopefully stunted plans for the Middle East: Public and private noises from the Obama administration have the Israel lobby spooked. Now they’re getting ready for the fight of their lives, writes Antony Loewenstein Last week in Washington 7000 delegates from America’s most…
The Zionist lobby is felt by all and sundry
The Australian Jewish News (AJN) conducts a very serious investigation into the “Jewish lobby” in Australia and finds no evidence of it at all: There is no evidence that professional Jewish groups collude to lobby the Government to work in favour of the Jewish community or Israel. This statement is utterly false. There is a…
When are we going to analyse the corrosive Zionist lobby?
An interesting debate from al-Jazeera English after last year’s AIPAC conference (before Obama won the election). The kind of discussion that rarely happens in the Western media: