My following book review appeared in Saturday’s Melbourne Age: Gaza: Morality, Law and Politics Edited by Raimond Gaita University of Western Australia Publishing, $29.95 Raimond Gaita’s collection tries to analyse a contentious conflict, writes Antony Loewenstein. MONTHS after the release of the UN-backed Goldstone report that found alleged war crimes by both Israel and Hamas…
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Israelis who reject their government’s plans
Sometimes, an event happens that provides a wonderful counter-point to the grinding Zionist project. Individuals or groups who refuse to be co-opted to support occupation and colonisation. Israeli blog Promised Blog reports on an advertisement that appeared in Friday’s Haaretz: WE DO NOT OBEY. Women in the footsteps of Ilana Hammerman: not obeying illegal and…
Another US Jew wondering why her people occupy Arabs
Emily Henochowicz, the American Jew who lost her eye from a Israeli tear gas canister in May, tells her story for the first time in a TV broadcast on Democracy Now! These stories are moving because they represent the growing numbers of American Jews questioning the Zionist state.
BDS grows in power in Australia and Zionists don’t even wonder why (hint: the occupation)
Following the current controversy over the Melbourne Film Festival accepting money from the Zionist state, the Jewish News includes a very revealing and fearful quote: Zionist Federation of Australia president Philip Chester has spoken out against an attempt by the makers of the film Son of Babylon to boycott the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF)…
Crocodile tears for Israel
A sign of the times. Online newsletter Bitterlemons features a series on “Israeli’s growing international isolation“. A combination of fear and arrogance permeates the collection, as Zionists either realise that Israel is on a path towards greater panic or more arrogance. Then there is Ghada Karmi, leading Palestinian writer: Can Israel survive its recent battering…
The how and why a rabbi backs BDS
The recent decision by Olympia co-operative in the US to boycott Israeli goods was an American first. Progressive Rabbi Lyn Gottlieb backs the decision: Boycott is a time honored method which was the catalyst that ended legal segregation in the United States. Boycott is the primary tool of those engaged in nonviolent resistance to systematic…
More on the Wikileaks/Israel/Afghanistan connection
Mondoweiss follows up my investigations on the Israel-connection in the Wikileaks dump (and curiously, searching for “Israeli” brings some different results to “Israel“): I’m poking around the Afghan war diaries from Wikileaks (inspired by Antony Loewenstein) and it looks like one element of our nationbuilding effort in Afghanistan is working: the people there have demonstrated…
Which views are acceptable in Israel these days?
Israel’s growing neo-McCarthyism is virulent and largely ignored by the Zionist Diaspora.
Better Place’s electric cars will be haunted by Palestine
I’ve written extensively about the Israeli electric car company Better Place and its highly questionable connections to working for the occupation in the West Bank. A letter in today’s Sydney Morning Herald denies political favours for the firm (the NSW Premier’s husband is a senior member of the company): Your story ”Keneally rivals shut out…
Radio New Zealand Media Watch interview on Middle East reporting
The issue of media bias in Middle East reporting is something that obsesses the Zionist lobby. Hearing any Palestinians is a problem. This edition of Radio New Zealand’s Media Watch, featuring my interview on the subject, examines the ways in which this area is hotly debated and why more reporters should be based in the…