The Australian Jewish News reports today on some utterly unsurprising news. God forbid the Jewish community establishment will allow their members to hear alternative perspectives on Israel/Palestine. Thankfully, such views are getting increasingly widely aired, against the woeful judgement of the Zionist cabal: A Sydney synagogue has cancelled a March 23 appearance by an Israeli…
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Aussie Jewish paper refuses ad for activist’s speech
Global Jewish news service JTA reports: An Australian Jewish newspaper refused an ad for a lecture by an activist opposed to Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes. Robert Magid, the publisher of the Australian Jewish News, would not run an advertisement in this week’s edition for a speaking tour by Jeff Halper, a co-founder of the…
Standing accused of complicity
Showing the Zionist lobby why they’re on the wrong side of history: Dozens of Los Angeles-area Jews, Palestinians and other allies erected a mock checkpoint at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) annual Valley Fundraiser in protest of AIPAC’s attempt to steer US policy makers to ignore recent Israeli war crimes in Gaza and…
The lobby in focus
First the Sydney Morning Herald argues today that the Zionist lobby is stifling open debate over Israel/Palestine and now the Los Angeles Times follows suit: When John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt wrote about “The Israel Lobby” in 2006, many supporters of Israel were outraged. How, they wanted to know, could anyone say that the United…
With friends like these in Australia
The following editorial appears in today’s Sydney Morning Herald: Israel is a democracy. It contains many political parties with a wide spectrum of views about how to approach the great issue of an eventual Palestinian settlement, as well as many more mundane policies. It has human rights groups which put the Israeli security forces under…
March IAJV newsletter
The following email was sent today to signatories of Independent Australian Jewish Voices: Dear friends, The war in Gaza may be over, but the devastated Strip remains in dire shape. Our recent Gaza media statement generated global attention and highlighted the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, joining worldwide condemnation of Israeli aggression. Full media coverage of…
Jews who crave torture
Chuck Schumer, The Democratic Senator, was a key supporter of even the most radical Bush appointees, and then led the way in sinking an Obama appointee who made “statements against Israel.” Salon’s Glenn Greenwald examines the ways in which Democrats are often equally blinded by their Israel love as Republican opponents (and the blogger kindly…
The peace activist the Jewish News rejects
My following piece appears on Crikey today: Dr Jeff Halper is an American born, Israeli-based professor of anthropology, author and co-founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD). This 2006 Nobel Peace Prize nominated group resists the Israeli policy of demolishing Palestinian homes in the illegally occupied West Bank. It uses non-violence and civil…
How to score an own goal, part 7543
The Australian Jewish News publishes the story below today. Who says the Zionist establishment isn’t petrified of debate? The more these clowns try and shut down discussion about Israel/Palestine, the more they look like cowards. And how do they think this plays in the wider community? Jews trying to stifle open debate. Yet another own…
The weak Jewish nation
The Israel Lobby co-author Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Policy blog: …I cannot help but be struck by how little confidence Freeman’s critics seem to have in Israel itself. Apparently they believe that a country that recently celebrated its 60th birthday, whose per capita income ranks 29th in the world, that has several hundred nuclear weapons,…