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My 2012 PEN Free Voices lecture on free speech and why it matters
The following is published today as the lead piece by ABC’s The Drum: The two-hour drive from Islamabad to Peshawar is along a surprisingly smooth road. Mud-brick homes sit amongst lush, green fields. Police checkpoints are set up routinely to stop unwanted visitors. I am asked why I want to see the troubled Pakistani town…
Another totally typical day in Israel/Palestine
One (via the Guardian): A belief that every Palestinian child is a potential terrorist may be leading to a “spiral of injustice” and breaches of international law in… Israel‘s treatment of child detainees in military custody, a delegation of eminent British lawyers has concluded in an independent report backed by the Foreign Office. The nine-strong delegation,…
Thank God for Tony Blair helping transport sweaters from Gaza
Amira Hass in Haaretz: Senior British diplomats invested supreme efforts in the past year so that one truck could transfer 2,000 sweaters, to be sold in the United Kingdom. The future wearers of these sweaters must, first of all, thank their former prime minister, Tony Blair, who this week will be marking the fifth anniversary…
One huge BDS victory at a time
US Jewish newspaper Forward reports: Controversy over the Israeli army’s use of Caterpillar Inc. bulldozers to demolish Palestinian homes was a “key factor” in a corporate rating agency’s decision to drop the American manufacturer from its list of socially responsible companies. The ratings agency, MSCI, downgraded Caterpillar in February, dropping it from several indices in…
#LeftTurn on Triple J’s Sunday Night Safran
I was interviewed last weekend, with my #LeftTurn co-editor Jeff Sparrow, on ABC Triple J’s Sunday Night Safran,… … on the book, Iraq, war, Israel, Palestine and pirates:
Writer Alice Walker refuses to be published by Israeli publisher
The following letter was sent by Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker to Israel’s Yediot Books: … June 9, 2012 Dear Publishers at Yediot Books, Thank you so much for wishing to publish my novel THE COLOR PURPLE.… It isn’t possible for me to permit this at this time for the following reason:… As you may…
Come to the West Bank and shoot Ayrab “terrorists”
Celebrating colonisation, demonising Arabs and making money in the process? Welcome to Israel 2012 (via Ynet): Like a frozen turkey plunged into boiling oil, a group of American tourists descend from an air-conditioned van into the scorching heat of the West Bank. Flashing smiles all around, they march into Caliber 3, a local shooting range.…
Murdoch’s Australian offers advice for #LeftTurn; go right, my blind followers
This was inevitable. Take a former speechwriter for Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, current columnist for the Australian and constant public advocate for more right-wing policies that are rejected time and time again at the ballot box and your insights are inevitably tres deep. But hey, maybe failure will be rewarded? It certainly has in…