It takes a certain kind of chutzpah for corporatised leaders to continue praising “democratic” Israel. Today in the Australian parliament the following was put on the record. Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Liberal Senator Eric Abetz): To move—That the Senate— (a) notes: (i) its decision on 23 March 2011 to acknowledge that Israel…
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Israel cancels Palestinian lives and world offers more love
Welcome to Zionist “democracy”: Israel has used a covert procedure to cancel the residency status of 140,000 West Bank Palestinians between 1967 and 1994, the legal advisor for the Judea and Samaria Justice Ministry’s office admits, in a new document obtained by Haaretz. The document was written after the Center for the Defense of the…
Bin Laden bled US and continues to do so
Asking questions about the Western obsession with Osama Bin Laden brings spluttering from certain areas of the elite class (indeed, so does saying anything against the glorious Zionist state, as a blogger in today’s Murdoch Australian says I’m polluting the ABC with anti-Israel material. Thank God standing up for Palestinians receives this bile). The real…
BDS victory; Deutsche Bahn refuses to back apartheid plan
Who says that pro-Palestinian campaigning can’t result in better outcomes for those living under Zionist occupation? The Financial Times reports: Deutsche Bahn, the German railway operator, has pulled out of an Israeli project that cuts through the occupied Palestinian West Bank, after pressure from activists and Berlin. The move marks a victory for pro-Palestinian groups…
Middle East revolutions happened despite of us
The social and political significance of the ongoing Arab revolutions are powerful. Last Friday I spoke in Sydney alongside insightful American reporter Matthew Cassel – who recently was on the front line of the Egyptian revolution and is soon to work for Al-Jazeera English – and Australian journalist Kate Ausburn. It was a fascinating night…
Palestine isn’t suddenly independent because France may say so in UN
A leading Palestinian voice in Gaza is Haider Eid. I met him in the Strip in 2009. He is well known for piercing supposedly accepted truths about the conflict. His latest article does not disappoint, puncturing those who are celebrating the possibility of a September UN vote to endorse Palestine: The induced euphoria that characterizes…
Ehud Barak; BDS is coming…but we’ll still occupy Palestinians
Very interesting new comments: “…Barak believes that a UN declaration of Palestinian statehood without a prior Israeli political initiative will paint Israel into a corner previously occupied by South Africa during the apartheid era. His admonition is pungent and scathing: ‘There are elements in the world, quite powerful, in various countries, including friendly ones, in…
BDS vital because alerts world to Zionist occupation politics
Here’s how a major American Jewish publication, Forward, discusses the Middle East, by looking into the real effects on US campuses of BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions). The result? Not many tangible successes but something else has clearly been created; raising the rights of Palestinians under Zionist occupation. And that’s priceless: An Israeli diplomat issued…
Solidarity with Palestine from those in South Africa who know
Right on: COSATU, South Africa`s largest trade union confederation, wishes to send solidarity and fraternal greetings to our Palestinian comrades in struggle as they meet for the important trade union conference that will include the establishment of the Palestinian Coalition of Trade Unions for BDS. Those of us that have had the chance to visit…