Next Sunday, 25 July, I’ll be appearing at one of New York’s leading independent bookshops, Revolution Books, for an event that can’t be missed! Palestine and Iraq — 2 Occupations Brunch roundtable discussion with authors Michael Otterman (Erasing Iraq: The Human Costs of Carnage) and Antony Loewenstein (My Israel Question and The Blogging Revolution). On…
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What are we doing to arrest Israel’s slide into authoritarianism?
There really isn’t anybody like Gideon Levy in Haaretz. His latest piece is stunning, and although it’s directed at Israeli Jews who look away as their country is declining towards fascism, his criticism could equally be targeting the Zionist Diaspora who largely remain silent when occupation deepens and outright racism is a daily fact of…
International NGO views Zionist occupation in the right way
How Israeli apartheid infects attitudes around the world and will continue to tar Jews and many Israelis until the Middle East changes: Uvira, Democratic Republic of Congo – Having never visited Africa before, Israeli burn specialist Dr. Eyal Winkler was apprehensive about what was in store for the delegation of five medical specialists which he…
Hardline Zionists want one Jewish state, so read on
Fantastic freelance Israeli journalist Noam Sheizaf examines in Haaretz the rise in the concept of a one-state solution amongst the settler Right: It’s still not a full-fledged political camp and there are still holes in the theory. But although its advocates do not seem to be working together, the plans they put forward are remarkably…
British Jews can only imagine partition in the Middle East
Depressingly predictable results from British Jews. Unimaginative, ignorant of history, sold lies by their leadership and unable to see that the two-state solution will never happen. And then what? Deafening silence: The majority of British Jews favour a “two-state solution” to the situation in Israel, and more than half would support negotiations with Hamas, according…
Beijing isn’t Washington’s replacement for Tel Aviv
China, Israel and the Jews; a long, tortuous, sometimes mutually beneficial relationship. But if Israel expects to have found a newfound friend in a post-American world, think again: It is hard to say just how much influence Israel has on China. Israel can’t expect the Chinese to come to its defense, diplomatically or otherwise. There’s…
Don’t touch anything Palestinian, it’s toxic
Any company that dares work for a pro-Palestinian cause is being targeted by the Zionist lobby (nobody is safe): A U.S. public relations firm said it will not renew its contract with a pro-Palestinian group that helped to organize the flotilla that aimed to breach Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip. The announcement from Fenton…
How to trick Washington in one easy move
Just in case any readers think that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanayahu is serious about peace, doesn’t love the settlements and believes America isn’t easily fooled. Read on (from a talk he gave to settlers in 2001).
The importance of the right of return
I just signed the following recent statement written by Al-Awda, the US-based Palestine Right to Return Coalition: In the year and a half since Israel’s massacres in Gaza, the Palestine solidarity movement, for fifteen years weakened by the two-state “Peace Roadmap” of the 1993 Oslo Accords, has gone through what can only be described as…
“They want us to be loyal to the occupation”
Jewish American journalist Max Blumenthal interviews one of the Palestinian politicians targeted by the Israeli occupation forces, a world away from the “only democracy in the Middle East”: On 9 July, as Israeli Border Police officers brutalized demonstrators at the weekly protest in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem, forcing them away from…