- Our only goal as Jews is to see Israel destroyed
- Debating Zionism’s boundaries
- Afghanistan has been given nothing but misery
- The confused identity of those Jews (and fellow travellers) who rather like occupation and bombing
- Privileged Australian Zionists moan about censorship while Palestine disappears
- How the Palestinian Authority is building the Israeli roads that kill their future
- American Radical: Norman Finkelstein documentary screening in Sydney
- Isolating Iran is part of the “great energy game”
Our only goal as Jews is to see Israel destroyed Posted: 03 May 2010 06:32 PM PDT
Atlantic journalist and blogger Jeffrey Goldberg, commenting on John Mearsheimer’s recent speech in which he mentions some progressive Jews like Naomi Klein and Tony Judt, alleges that these kind of people are:
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Debating Zionism’s boundaries Posted: 03 May 2010 04:23 PM PDT
My following essay appears in the current edition of Jewish, American magazine Tikkun:
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Afghanistan has been given nothing but misery Posted: 03 May 2010 07:02 AM PDT
Robert Fisk on the destruction of ancient cultures while the West talks about “democracy” and “liberation” at the barrel of a gun:
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The confused identity of those Jews (and fellow travellers) who rather like occupation and bombing Posted: 03 May 2010 06:47 AM PDT
Following the publication today of Overland’s smackdown of Zionist attempts to silence alternative views on the Middle East in Australia, leading Australian academic Scott Burchill – we like him on this site – sent me the following response:
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Privileged Australian Zionists moan about censorship while Palestine disappears Posted: 02 May 2010 11:10 PM PDT
A sorry saga that needs no introduction.
Independent Australian magazine Overland recently received this letter from six Jewish academics. It was sent to the editors of the publication and the editorial board:
Overland has responded brilliantly (see below), skewering the increasingly desperate tactics of a Zionist community that less people are listening to. As Palestine burns and the occupation deepens, these dinosaurs are complaining about their poor views being marginalised. I look forward to the same passion being spent on condemning the illegal settlements in the West Bank and siege on Gaza:
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How the Palestinian Authority is building the Israeli roads that kill their future Posted: 02 May 2010 10:58 PM PDT
This is the kind of story that should be read by anybody who actually believes that the US-backed Palestinian Authority will bring freedom to its people in 2011. Or ever.
The article in The Nation shows how the PA is actively killing its own chances of statehood and entrenching the Zionist occupation. Perhaps the long list of Western reporters who visit Ramallah and praise its leadership (Roger Cohen in the New York Times is but the latest) would like to actually get past the talking points:
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American Radical: Norman Finkelstein documentary screening in Sydney Posted: 02 May 2010 10:32 PM PDT |
Isolating Iran is part of the “great energy game” Posted: 02 May 2010 10:18 PM PDT
Here’s my interview with Foreign Policy Journal by Kourosh Ziabari:
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