Index on Censorship highlights an apparent case of free speech being only acceptable to some (and as for criticising saintly Israel…): The US State Department has withdrawn an invitation to Palestinian… Majed Badra to attend a government-sponsored international exchange program for political cartoonists after deciding that some of his work was “anti-Semitic.” The program, part of…
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Nakba denial is an ugly thing
But Daniel Pipes has no hesitation leading the charge: …The building of Israel represents about the most peaceable in-migration and state creation in history…Israelis should hold their heads high and point out that the building of their country was based on the least violent and most civilized movement of any people in history. Gangs did…
Remember all the Western journalists praising Fayyad in the West Bank?
It was an illusion, built on seemingly endless Western aid and no plan to end the Zionist occupation on Palestinian land: For years, Fayyad’s soft talk and cheery dedication enabled policymakers throughout the world to ignore the brewing crisis. And this may be where Fayyad, despite his impressive management skills, did Palestinians a disservice. In…
Imagine if Palestinians admitted to killing Israelis
It would be front page news globally. But instead, this story will inevitably disappear down the memory hole: Undercover Israeli intelligence officers appeared on national television Saturday to talk about assassinating Palestinians in a program broadcast on Israel’s Channel 10. Oren Beaton presented a photo album of Palestinians he killed during his time as a…
Killing fields of Sri Lanka
Here is the devastating Channel 4 in Britain documentary on the brutal civil war in Sri Lanka. Assisted by China, Israel, India and the US, Colombo murdered over 40,000 Tamil civilians. We will not forget. And we will demand accountability:
How can we get young Jews to hate Arabs in only 10 days?
Send them on the Birthright trip. Here’s an interesting feature in the Nation on the countless number of Jews who are sent on a short propaganda trip to Israel in an attempt to convince them that Arabs are terrorists and the occupied Palestinian territories are in fact Zionist land: Birthright’s boosters seem strangely unaware of…
Don’t play Israel and join the Gaza flotilla
Canadian film-maker John Greyson unleashes yet another fine work: Gaza Island from Albino Squirrel Channel on Vimeo. More here.
Now why would you expect Israel to have a viable peace plan?
Israeli writer Etgar Keret – who I interviewed in Indonesia last year and found him engaging, argumentative, passionate and funny – travels to Italy and asks Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu about the Zionist state’s plans for peace with the Palestinians. Suffice to say, there is no plan: The briefing is already drawing to a close…
Zionist leader worries that democracy in Israel/Palestine is bad thing
Hear the fear in the words of somebody who knows that true equality for Jews and Palestinians will mean the end of Jewish privilege. We should welcome it: President Shimon Peres is concerned that Israel might become a binational state, in which case, he warned, it would cease to exist as a Jewish state. “I’m…
Some question and answers about responsibility of writers
Following my essay in the latest edition of literary journal Overland on cultural boycotts, politics, Palestine and Sri Lanka, the magazine interviewed me on various matters: Passionate and outspoken about Israel/Palestine, among other things, Antony Loewenstein is a freelance independent journalist based in Sydney. Author of My Israel Question and The Blogging Revolution, he is…