Jewish American blogger and writer Max Ajl is currently in Gaza and wrote this moving post about his wish list for 2011: A friend of mine here said that what we need are not “new year’s resolutions but new year’s revolutions.” So what do I hope for in this New Year? I hope for revolutions.…
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Israel, the US and corporate press selling Iranian “threat” for decades
It must be resisted now as much as ever.
Yet more Wikileaks cables to devour
When the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten recently announced it had received the entire collection of the Wikileaks cable dump, the world was strangely silent. But there is a treasure trove in there and should be examined. Heaps on Sri Lanka from the last years, including Colombo allegedly purchasing weapons from North Korea and Iran. Norway as…
Tel Aviv more than happy to help Beijing target its own people
What’s a Zionist state to do when it has such wonderfully useful skills at managing occupation and repressing people? Sell that knowledge to another repressive state such as China: Sino-Israeli relations were generally distant prior to the 1980s but that decade saw the beginning of significant Israeli arms and technology transfers to China. Early efforts…
How much racism can a “democracy” take?
One: Palestinian detainees are systematically denied the right to meet a lawyer during interrogations by Shin Bet, the Israeli internal security service, according to a report published today by an Israeli and a Palestinian rights group. The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club say detainees from the occupied West…
Sarkozy doesn’t dislike Arabs all the time?
Putting aside the unworkability of a two-state solution, this shows growing international anger towards Israel. Next step is financial and diplomatic punishment for the Zionist state: Former French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner in January 2010 had already discussed with the US the idea of recognizing a Palestinian state regardless of the outcome of negotiations with…
“Don’t come back to Nabi Saleh you piece of shit”
Joseph Dana, leading Jewish Israeli activist against the occupation, was arrested last week: On Friday, I was detained by Border Police officers in Nabi Saleh along with another Israeli. We were handcuffed behind our backs, thrown to the ground and beaten. The other Israeli was beaten much worse than I. His head was smashed against…
Zionist fear of fascism grows and who should they blame?
A Zionist chauvinist worries that his beloved Jewish state is starting to show signs of ignoring democracy. Over to you, Jeffrey Goldberg: Is it actually possible that one day Israelis — Jewish Israelis — would choose to give up democracy in order to maintain Israel’s Jewish voting majority? … Let’s just say, as a hypothetical,…
But is there a real Left in Israel?
An important Haaretz editorial that demands decent Jews, Arabs and others inside the Zionist state either stand up now or like most Jews in the Diaspora remain silent as the country becomes more fascist by the day: The demand by a group of academics and intellectuals that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suspend the state-funded rabbis…