Just another day in the life of the extreme Zionist lobby looking like fools by pressuring the Canadian government to bar George Galloway. Will they ever learn that they simply come across as insecure Jews fearful of open debate?
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Freedom of the local press?
The following letter appears in today’s Sydney Morning Herald: Jeremy Gilling’s assertion (Letters, March 20) that Robert Magid’s reason for pulling an ad promoting talks by Jeff Halper “doesn’t cut it” is irrelevant. Magid is not answerable to Gilling or to the Herald. Extending Magid’s first reason (Halper’s promotion by groups that Jews find offensive),…
Jewish leaders who fear anything other than conformity
The following letter appears in today’s Melbourne Age: Last week a major Jewish newspaper refused to run an advertisement publicising talks by prominent Israeli academic and peace activist Professor Jeff Halper. This week Jewish leaders are campaigning against talks with former Iranian leader Mohammad Khatami at La Trobe University’s Centre for Dialogue. While it is…
Scoring an own goal day after day
The following letter was submitted this week to the Sydney Morning Herald but remains unpublished: It seems that we are again witnessing a distortion of facts in Australia when it comes to the Palestine/Israel question.… I refer to the visit of Israeli Professor Jeff Halper and the refusal of the Australian Jewish News to print…
Don’t write the obituary quite yet
The Israel Lobby co-author, John Mearsheimer, on his argument in the London Review of Books that the Zionist lobby is declining in power: An even more important reason for the lobby to drive Freeman out of his job is the weakness of the case for America’s present policy towards Israel, which makes it imperative to…
US-funded extremists
One of the best anti-Zionist blogs in the US, Mondoweiss, on the real danger in the Middle East; the fundamentalist settler movement: In a speech at a New York synagogue Wednesday night, Nadia Matar, a leader of the Israeli settlers’ group “Women in Green,” called for the assassination of Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the…
Jewish spying in the land of freedom
Oops, the Jewish state has a slight problem: Uzi Arad, who is expected to serve as national security adviser in the next Israeli government, has been barred from entering the United States for nearly two years on the grounds that he is an intelligence risk. Mr. Arad, a former member and director of intelligence for…
Yes, please, more defence of the indefensible
Visiting Israeli/American peace activist Jeff Halper remains in Australia and continues his tour (with his latest opinion piece published last week detailing a dedication to equal human rights for both Israelis and Palestinians). His visit has attracted a great deal of controversy thanks to the decision by the Australian Jewish News (AJN) and the Zionist…
The lobby has battles on many fronts
Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery writes about the controversy over Charles Freeman and the Zionist lobby’s successful attempt to stop him becoming Chairman of the National Intelligence Council. His main point? “It may be too early to call this episode the Rape of Washington”, he writes, but argues it’s clear that the Obama administration has…
Cover your tracks and throw smoke
Sometimes you just have to laugh. Yesterday I wrote a piece for Crikey about the visit of leading Jewish activist Jeff Halper and the multiple, ham-fisted attempts by the Australian Jewish News (AJN) and Zionist lobby to ignore and censor him. Suffice to say, it’s back-fired spectacularly, even leading the Sydney Morning Herald to today…