Planned Palestinian Authority “statehood” push a sham

Read articles that Israel is worried about the proposed September UN vote where the PA will declare itself a state? The Zionist Diaspora are finding ways to stop the move (well, they’ll stop Palestinians doing anything to live decent, unoccupied lives). Ali Abunimah writes that it’s all an elaborate scam and the PA has nothing…

Australian media incapable of hearing Palestinians

How to define farce? The Australian media’s coverage of Israel/Palestine and BDS. Palestinians and Arabs remain largely absent from discussion, lest they infect people’s minds. Instead, today we have a litany of articles that say nothing about the Middle East apart from craven white people desperate to pray at the altar of Zionist “democracy”. The…

Murdoch press finds humour in Jewish-free Sydney suburb

This is what passes for comedy in Sydney’s Daily Telegraph. The message is very clear; be critical of Israel, condemn the occupation and urge Israel to follow international law and be accused of Jew hating and anti-Semitism by the Murdoch thugs. Sydney’s Marrickville council endorsed BDS as a principled and increasingly popular global movement. The…

Tell me Zionists; which Jews are acceptable for you?

The illusion is coming apart; the idea that Jews in general love and back Israel, no matter what. Jewish Voice for Peace is a US-based progressive, Jewish group aiming to expand debate on Israel/Palestine. Of course the usual suspects don’t like it one bit. For them, Israel is beyond debate and the glorious occupation and…

Where are the Arab voices in Aussie BDS debate?

My following story appears in today’s edition of Crikey: A few weeks after the start of the Iraq war in 2003, I talked to a senior editor at The Sydney Morning Herald and asked her why there were basically no Iraqi voices in the paper, either for or against the conflict. “I never thought of…

Australian media on Palestine; ignore the Palestinians

Satire is clearly dead. Weeks of media coverage of Israel/Palestine in Australia and the BDS campaign pushed by the NSW Greens and Sydney’s Marrickville council and not a peep from Arabs or Palestinians. I mean, why should they be heard? It’s only about their land in the Middle East but let’s not focus on details.…

Text and images ©2024 Antony Loewenstein. All rights reserved.

Site by Common