Max Blumenthal has become one of the leading American Jewish voices against Israeli oppression.
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Israelis enjoying themselves shows the importance of BDS
Here’s a tip for the Israelis who made this almost comical anti-BDS video. Featuring people having fun in Israel utterly misses the point. Increasing numbers of people globally are boycotting Israel for this very reason; fun-loving Israelis are loving life while Palestinians are brutalised down the road in the West Bank and Gaza under Israeli…
Mark my words; a day will come when Palestinians will rise as one
Amira Hass on the infrastructure of control imposed by Israel on the Palestinians and she asks; Sooner or later, the protective nets the Israeli tyranny has excelled at creating will tear. Will the masses flood the streets then, will they break through the barriers and roadblocks, march to Sheikh Jarrah, Silwan and Psagot, as my…
The only language the lobby knows is from the Israeli government
The recent decision by the NSW Greens to embrace BDS against Israeli apartheid has brought out predictably hyperbolic Zionist lobby rantings. Here’s Yair Miller, president of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, rehashing familiar talking points about Israeli democracy, working together with Palestinians and hugging away the occupation. Because that’s worked so well in the…
Majority Jewish Israelis loathe real democracy
Evidence: Fully 52 percent of Israeli Jews would be willing to limit the media’s freedom of expression if media reports damage the state’s image, while 64 percent would accept limits on freedom of expression in the event of a threat to national security, a poll has found. Similar percentages would accept limits on professors’ academic…
Just in case the world didn’t know what the Zionist state thinks
Autocrats rule: Israel threw its support behind Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Monday, appealing to the U.S. and other governments to support the embattled leader and giving the Egyptian military the go-ahead to deploy forces in the Sinai Peninsula once again. The popular uprising against Mubarak took Israel completely by surprise, and for several days…
Let’s not forget Israel loves autocrats to maintain its life
How does the Zionist state survive in the Middle East? Bribery, pressure, money and US backing. Nothing about democracy or rights or decency. And Egypt has been central to this for decades. So now what? Aluf Benn writes in Haaretz that Tel Aviv may have a few problems on its hands. Friends? More money may…
Bernard-Henri Lévy on trial
Tariq Ali on today’s indictment in Paris against French “intellectual” Bernard-Henri Lévy who never sees a US/Israeli war he doesn’t love.
Goldstone was right; “cleansing” Gaza was IDF goal
Israeli tank-commander speaking to Britain’s Channel 4: We needed to cleanse the neighbourhoods, the buildings, the area. It sounds really terrible to say “cleanse”, but those were the orders….I don’t want to make a mistake with the words. It gets worse.
What foreign writers should not be doing in the Zionist state
The kind of moral pressure that is clearly needed: As Israeli citizens who support the boycott, divestment and sanctions call on Israel, we believe that if Ian McEwan accepts the Jerusalem prize next month in Jerusalem (Letters, 26 January), it will make him a collaborator with Israel‘s worst human rights offenders and its “business as…