The following interviews are published this week in Green Left Weekly. One: Antony Loewenstein is an independent journalist and author of My Israel Question and The Blogging Revolution. Green Left Weekly’s Simon Butler asked Loewenstein about recent attempts to intimidate supporters of the boycott, sanctions and divestment (BDS) campaign against Israel. * * * Nineteen…
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At least one Australian politician stands up for Palestine
Bravo Lee Rhiannon and as always the Murdoch Australian is incapable of framing this movement as anything other than outright anti-Semitism: Greens senator Lee Rhiannon has again refused to back away from the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign, despite opposition from her leader, Bob Brown. Her comments came as a group of federal MPs…
Why Palestinian children rightly hate Israel
An occupying nation that loves colonisation of Palestinian land needs to continuously find new ways to humiliate the “natives”. Read on: The boy, small and frail, is struggling to stay awake. His head lolls to the side, at one point slumping on to his chest. “Lift up your head! Lift it up!” shouts one of…
Israel was on verge of yet another futile war against Gaza last week
Israel’s biggest newspaper has the story. And what will be the global reaction to this? Silence, because after all, if Israel would have attacked Gaza it would have been seen as “defensive” even if white phosphorus was used, like during Operation Cast Lead. This is the Holocaust excuse, used time and time again, and yet…
Paying for anti-Islam hate
An important report but shame that there isn’t more public discussion about the kind of people who are spreading this message against Muslims are also some of Israel’s biggest backers:
PressTV interview on BDS, Palestinian rights and faux anti-Semitism
The debate around Israel/Palestine in Australia has descended into calling critics (and backers of BDS) Nazis. Yes, that dignified. And the Zionist establishment is leading the charge, completely undermining its argument that the memory of the Holocaust should be holy. For them, Israel must be protected no matter what, even if dead Jews must be…
BDS activists aren’t Nazis and neither are any mainstream leftists
Following my article this week damning the Jewish, political and media establishments for shamefully comparing BDS against Israel to Nazi Germany, I’m not alone in my concerns:
Glenn Beck brings pro-settler hatred to Israel (but few turn up)
Almost beyond farce: As he did at a rally he led in Washington last year, Mr. Beck gave out awards at his Jerusalem rally. One went to the settlement of Itamar and the Fogel children who survived a horrific Palestinian attack on their home in March that killed their parents and three siblings. More incongruously,…
If Israel was a mature country, it would welcome Arab revolutions
But, as Robert Fisk writes, Zionism only wants “democracy” for itself, screw the Arab masses: Israel, which has been so skewed and immature in its response to the Arab awakening – why on earth did its leaders not welcome the Egyptian revolution, opening their arms to a people who showed they wanted the democracy which…
BDS isn’t akin to Nazi Germany and damn those who say so
My following essay appears in New Matilda today: Equating the BDS movement with Nazism is both offensive and outrageous. So why aren’t members of the Jewish community speaking out on this, asks Antony Loewenstein Joseph Stalin changed his name and so did New South Wales Federal Greens MP Lee… Rhiannon. Stalin, writes Alan Howe, executive editor…