Leading Australian academic Scott Burchill has some thoughts about Libya: 1. Military intervention like this can make the humanitarian crisis worse, as it did in Serbia in 1999. Milosevich’s attacks on Kosovars only escalated after NATO’s bombing campaign begun. So even though the West controls the skies over Libya, expect ground attacks by Gaddafi loyalists…
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Which state won’t allow Palestinians to recognise dispossession?
One more step in Israel’s seemingly inevitable path towards excluding Arabs entirely; making it illegal for Palestinians to get any state funding to mark the 1948 Nakba. Key BDS backer Omar Barghouti writes: One major difference between Israeli apartheid and its South African… sibling… was that the former shrewdly avoided… overt racial discrimination that prevailed in the latter.…
South Africa knows about apartheid and sees it in Israel
Wonderful news (via Joseph Dana): In a major victory for… proponents… of the academic boycott of Israel, the University of… Johannesburg has voted to end its relationship with Ben Gurion University. This… decision… to boycott Ben Gurion University carries… special… significance… given South Africa’s history of Apartheid and the… successful… boycott that was… launched… against the country in the 1980’s. The university’s decision is another confirmation of…
Inside the minds of Itamar colonists
Inka Stafrace is an Australian film-maker concerned with Israel/Palestine. Her first film, Hope in the Sling Shot, was accepted then refused screening on “our” ABC. Brave souls at the national broadcaster. She’s currently working on a new project but in the meantime has shot this beautiful short piece on the recent settler murder in Itamar…
Australia’s Zionist lobby worried BDS may be catching
The ongoing controversy over Sydney’s Marrickville council backing BDS against Israel is getting the political and media establishment and Zionist lobby worried. So what to do? Find a compliant Federal politician who loves Israel to death and will do anything to defend Zionist occupation. Victorian Liberal Mitch Fifield is your man. He’s been on trips…
Israel is “an island of stability”
Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak tells a Jewish audience in the US that Zionism is peachy, occupation is lovely (oh, apart from this and this, of course, but he must have mentioned this when the recorders were off) and the Jewish state should be given even more Western backing. Who believes this nonsense (apart from…
News Goo on Palestine and Wikileaks and our media’s cluelessness
Why does the mainstream media report as it does? Corporate pressure? Reporter laziness? Set narrative? A few months ago a few of us here in Sydney discussed the idea of a Democracy Now! show in Australia, a progressive and critical look at the world, views so often ignored by the MSM. Sydney University’s Jake Lynch…
Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show says occupied Palestine isn’t free
How many other mainstream American commentators do? The Daily Show – America’s Freedom PackagesTags: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook