Following my story last week in Crikey about Sydney’s Marrickville council endorsing BDS against Israeli apartheid, the following letter appeared in Friday’s Crikey: Simon Sawday, Australasian Union of Jewish Students, Vice Chairperson, writes: Re. “NSW election: Greens Marrickville candidate labelled ”˜Hamas harlot’”. As the Vice Chairperson of the Australasian Union of Jewish Students (AUJS), I…
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Why do tax dollars help Israeli colonies?
It’s surely time to stop Western states talking publicly against Jewish settlements in the West Bank but allowing citizens to fund them via the tax system: Margaret A. Weirich (J.D. 2010, Iowa) has published Hijacking the Charitable System: An Examination of Tax-Exempt Status for Charities that Support Israeli Settlements, 14 J. Gender Race & Just.…
Bibi spins on CNN while Gaza continues to burn
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to CNN and lies by saying his country lifted all the restrictions on Gaza (truth here) and the left is now working with radical Islamists to bring down the Zionist state. Ah, Bibi, I’m sure the Zionist lobby still loves you but nobody else accepts your delusions and occupying…
Who says BDS isn’t working against Israel?
Example one: The Israeli security firm Hashmira, which is owned by the Danish concern G4S, announced last weekend it will stop providing equipment to security installations over the Green Line. The move comes in the wake of public pressure in Denmark following a report from the Coalition of Women for Peace, which runs the “Who…
Channel 10 TV on playing global football in Palestine
This happened: The Palestinian national soccer team faced Thailand on Wednesday in an Olympic qualifying match deep in symbolism: It’s the first time the Palestinians have hosted a competitive match at the international level, and for excited fans in this conflict-ridden area, it marks an important step in their struggle for independence. Following a 1-0…
If only Israeli state really cared about stopping terrorism
The recent murder of Jewish settlers in the West Bank was an appalling act of terrorism. No ifs or buts. But watch the debased response of the Zionist state to this outrage. Haaretz editorial: The despicable murder of five members of the Fogel family on Saturday is a crime against every human being. But the…
“We don’t need no thought control” over Palestinian rights
Roger Waters, once of Pink Floyd fame, has become a high-profile supporter of Palestinian rights and endorser of BDS: In 1980, a song I wrote, Another Brick in the Wall Part 2, was banned by the government of South Africa because it was being… used by black South African… children to advocate their right to equal education.…
Neo-Nazis love Zionist treatment of Muslims
Who are really the most strident backers of Israel these days? Christian fundamentalists and far-right bigots. More than 60 years after the Holocaust, Nazis take comfort in the Zionist state. Tragic and yet utterly logical. Newsweek reports: To the casual observer, the visiting Europeans at Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial in the hills above Jerusalem,…
Jews who understand why BDS must force Israel to be legal and decent
The International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network has released the following statement (that I’ve happily signed) articulating an alternative and supportive Jewish perspective on boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel: Because academic, cultural and commercial boycotts, divestments and sanctions of Israel: are being called for by Palestinian civil society in response to the occupation and colonization of…
How to face “incitement” allegation in Israel
Beyond parody (but such is the reality in modern Israel). Via The Only Democracy in the Middle East: Sara Benninga, whose speech I reposted here on the blog, was interrogated by the police after speaking at the JStreet conference I attended. She provided one of the voices for a new direction for Jewish and Israeli…