Yet another tale of radical Jewish settlers determining the policies of Israel.
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How to show solidarity with good Jews
A Jewish peace activist, writing for the US-based Jewish Voice for Peace, recalls a comical yet tragic encounter: Several weeks ago, while on a solidarity visit with Ta’ayush in the South Hebron hills region of the West Bank, we were stopped by a makeshift Israeli Army roadblock and told that we could not pass into…
We stand up for all human rights, not just Jews
Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) recently released a collection of essays by Jewish dissenters. My chapter, as the co-founder of Independent Australian Jewish Voices (IAJV), is about the situation in Australia and the growth of public anger towards Israel’s war crimes in the occupied territories. The book, A Time to Speak Out, launched in London and…
The end of Israel as a Jewish state?
My following article appears in today’s ABC Unleashed: The vast majority of Israeli citizens oppose the settler movement. Despite this, the colonialists recently launched a campaign to lure Israelis to visit the West Bank, the Jewish Forward newspaper reported. “Some 1,000 billboards have gone up across the country, showing photographs of cherubic settler children dressed…
Jewish hatred for all to see
Gideon Levy, Haaretz, October 26: My settler colleague, Israel Harel, his community’s champion at rolling his eyes, playing innocent and speaking with a honeyed tongue, is once again grieving and playing the victim. In a column published here last week (“Have we become Sodom?” October 23), he complained that the reason for what he termed…
Making hay while the sun still shines
Who said nobody is making money from illegally occupying another people’s land? The price of property in the West Bank is rocketing beyond the reach of most local business and homeseekers, pushed up by a weak dollar and Israeli control of large chunks of the territory, according to a World Bank report published Thursday.
Political vaudeville
My latest New Matilda column is about the forthcoming US election: Vacuous coverage of the US election has only skimmed the surface of the economic and foreign policy challenges facing the next President, argues Antony Loewenstein Mainstream media debate over the forthcoming US election has been fixated on the trivial rather than the substantive. Foreign…
The daily Jewish pain
Gideon Levy, Haaretz, October 16: It’s routine under the occupation: On any night soldiers are liable to raid any house in the territories and do as they wish. Sometimes it ends with nothing, a futile search. Sometimes it ends with arrests. It always involves great fear and sometimes even death, as in the tragic case…
The time to speak is now
A Time to Speak Out was released this week by Verso Books. It collects a number of dissident Jewish voices from Britain and the world who challenge the dominant Zionist narrative around Israel and the Palestinians and the necessity of creating an alternative Judaism, one not defined by occupation. I have a chapter in the…
Making peace with only one side
The Independent’s Robert Fisk, in his regular Saturday column, highlights the unspoken reality of last week’s Vice Presidential debate: Palestinians ceased to exist in the United States on Thursday night. Both Joe Biden and Sarah Palin managed to avoid the use of that poisonous word. “Palestine” and “Palestinians” – that most cancerous, slippery, dangerous concept…