Yoel Marcus in Haaretz thinks the new Israeli government has a problem on its hands: These days, when Obama has a majority in Congress and the world’s eyes are on him, we cannot pressure him using our power hubs in Washington. The Jewish lobby has lost much of its strength in the current administration. And…
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We’re waiting for Jews to assert themselves
The New York Times magazine published an essay yesterday by Zev Chafets on Obama’s Rabbi: Rabbi Capers Funnye celebrated Martin Luther King Day this year in New York City at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, a mainstream Reform congregation, in the company of about 700 fellow Jews — many of them black. The organizers of…
The more Jewish angst the better
American Prospect blogger Ezra Klein on the fears of the Zionist lobby: My sense of the situation — and this is substantially informed, and thus biased, by the reaction to my commentary — is that there’s a lot of generational anxiety in the Jewish community. The experience of Jewishness for older Jews — the generation…
Jews are getting the image of being afraid of debate
My following article appears on the leading US blog Mondoweiss: Jeff Halper, Israeli/American peace activist, retired anthropologist and head of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), writes in his recent book, An Israeli in Palestine, of the moment he became a “critical Israeli”: “I first became aware of being an ”˜Israeli in Palestine’ on…
Some Jews have less friends
For all its inherent conservatism – belief in a two-state solution etc – the US-based Israel lobby J Street is starting to make political head-way. When fanatical Zionists are upset, you know you’re doing something right. Senior Zionist figures are worried. A sign of progress, indeed: So why J Street? Why all this fury? More…
Foreign Correspondents’ Association
Prominent Australian journalist and writer Antony Loewenstein was Guest Speaker at an FCA Newsmaker Luncheon in Sydney on Thursday 26 March 2009. Antony’s address focused on the ways in which most of the Western media gloss over the realities of the Israel/Palestine conflict, not least the Israeli occupation, and related topics. This was a wonderful…
An unhelpful discourse on Israel
The following article is written by Israeli/American peace activist Jeff Halper for the Australian Jewish News but the paper refuses to run the piece, despite spending weeks attacking Halper and his supporters in its pages: The uproar in the organized Jewish community over the prospect of my speaking in Australia is truly startling to an…
Time is running out for Israel to adapt
My latest column for New Matilda is about the realities facing the incoming Israeli government: The ground is slowly shifting in international attitudes towards Israeli policies. But the longer Israel delays changing direction, the fewer options it will have, writes Antony Loewenstein As the new Israeli Government under Benyamin Netanyahu begins its tenure, a small…
The enforcers are weak
Independent Australian Jewish Voices blogger Michael Brull writes in New Matilda about the limits of “acceptable” debate on Israel/Palestine in Australia: Desperate to promote Israeli Government policy, the Australian Jewish establishment has resorted to calling all kinds of people anti-Semites — even Jews
When will the reporters refuse to be bought?
The role of the Australian Zionist lobby starts to get the treatment it deserves in the mainstream media, namely exposure. But there is a long way to go.