A very helpful “digested read” in the Guardian of the latest work by Melanie Philips: This book arose from a sense of perplexity that almost everyone in the world thought I was clinically mad. Everywhere I looked there were people who believed boarding a humanitarian aid convoy in international waters and murdering nine people was…
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Inciting race hatred on Murdoch money
A helpful reminder of the kind of hatred that regularly appears in the pages of a leading Murdoch publication. Alan Howe is a senior figure in Melbourne’s Herald Sun newspaper who loves to demean Arabs and praise Israel (free trips to the Jewish state thanks to the Zionist lobby have certainly helped him hone his…
Is the Aussie Zionist lobby in trouble?
One of Australia’s foremost academics, Scott Burchill, senses a change in Australian public opinion over Israel. The Zionist lobby will have noticed. As will the lobby’s closest backers (such support is always helped by regular free trips to Israel and a constant stream of press releases). Over to Burchill in an online exclusive: Sometimes government…
What the Pixies think may be catching
A piece in today’s Murdoch Australian highlights the almost unstoppable movement towards isolating Israel until it recognises the error of its occupying ways. Not much evidence that many Israelis do believe that, but give them time: The piece is by Michael Shaik: “MICHAEL, she’s dead.” It was March 16, 2003. The huge anti-war protests of…
Fox News tells us the truly fair and balanced view on Gaza
Fools and desperados, allow Fox News’ Glenn Beck show you the light over Israel’s attack on the Gaza flotilla (because only He knows the vile hatred thrown at the Jewish state from all the quarters of the “lamestream” media:)
Moving from watching Fox News to understanding Palestine
During my experience with the Gaza Freedom March in late 2009 in Cairo, I spent time with a remarkable American woman and mother, Debbie Mardon. She once was a right wing, Fox News watcher but is now a fiercely passionate activist for Palestine. Her transformation was documented in New York’s Indypendent newspaper last week and…
Sorry, Israel, you’re too kind to those activists, please come again
Are we seriously saying that a group of activists on a ship threatened the lives of Israel, its people and pets? Jon Stewart has a few words: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Clusterf#&k to the War House – Korean Peninsula & Middle East www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes…
BDS gets noticed by Murdoch press
This piece in the Wall Street Journal highlights a serious problem faced by Israel and its Diaspora supporters: Israel’s bungled attempt to stop the aid flotilla from reaching Gaza also highlights how an increasingly forceful strategy by Palestinians and their supporters to turn to boycotts, international isolation, and relatively nonviolent protests is confronting Israel with…
A few simple steps for Israel to win back friends (measured in decades)
Note yesterday’s editorial in Murdoch’s Australian broadsheet. Defensive, seemingly pained that the beloved Israel had acted so brazenly and less defiant as usual. Next step, backing a targeted boycott campaign (ok, I can dream): The Jewish state must reassure the world it wants peace In boarding vessels intent on breaking the Gaza blockade the Israeli…
Thank God Israel stopped those 700 terrorists
What is a man to do who simply loves Israel like a fine wine, an aged cheese, a voluptuous lady? Over to you, Murdoch man Andrew Bolt: Jihad was also the spirit on the Mavi Marmara as it sailed for Gaza. Those on board refused offers by Israel that they dock at an Israeli port…