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Rest easy, Israel, the storm has passed, keep on occupying
What’s that about an Israeli media bubble? You say there’s nothing to worry about? Sorry what? Occupying Palestinians is fine? Rising racism against Arabs best avoided? Yes, of course it is. Guy Bechor writes in Yediot, the country’s biggest paper, that Israel is now emerging from a down-turn and even falsely claims Australia has outlawed…
ABC interview on Palestine, UN statehood and one-state solution
Debate around Palestinian statehood is becoming increasingly polarised, but necessarily so. While Israel continues to build illegal settlements in the West Bank, a two-state solution is dead and buried. That only leaves eternal apartheid or a one-state solution, my favoured option, a truly democratic state. Last week I was extensively interviewed by ABC radio on…
What really happened when Tzipi Livni came to Britain?
There are few lengths to which so-called Western democracies won’t go to protect Zionist leaders accused of war crimes: Britain blocked an attempt on Thursday to arrest visiting Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni for alleged war crimes, officials said. Livni, foreign minister during Israel’s three-week assault on the Palestinian-ruled Gaza Strip launched in December 2008,…
Head of Israel’s biggest “peace group” happy to protect colonies
If more evidence was needed of the moral collapse of the mainstream Israeli “peace movement”, this is it. The fact that the Israeli government would honour the group Peace Now is bad enough but the quotes from its leader are highly revealing, and depressing: The Peace Now movement has recently received a certificate of merit…
Chomsky on internal Israeli warnings of dire future
Noam Chomsky tells RT: For 35 years, the US and Israel have been rejecting a political settlement that is supported virtually by the entire world. A couple of months ago, there was a meeting of the oligarchs — people who pretty much run the economy [of Israel], and they warned the government that it better…
The desperate plea for Israel to hang onto land forever
It seems I’ve upset a man who rather likes Zionist occupation and dislikes my recent ABC piece on the UN Palestine bid and BDS [boycott, divestment and sanctions] against Israel. In this week’s conservative Spectator magazine, a column by Rowan Dean, headlined, “Three words you’ll never hear from Loewenstein and his BDS pals”, rehashes every…
Global launch of “On Utoya: Anders Breivik, right terror, Islamophobia and Europe”
6.30pm – Wednesday 26 October 2011 – Upstairs at the Norfolk Hotel in Sydney 305 Cleveland Street. Cnr of Cleveland and Walker Streets. See a map of the location here. We are appreciative that the book will be launched by: Lee Rhiannon, Greens Senator, Australian Parliament Antony Loewenstein, Independent freelance journalist and author of My…