What it means to advocate the ‘Sri Lanka model’ for Israel/Palestine
It is easy to frame the conflict in Israel and Palestine as inherently unique. In many ways it is – decades-old occupation, US-supported racial discrimination and failure of Western journalism to hold...
View ArticleLoewenstein Gaza doc is on Australian national radio
Last December I attended the Gaza Freedom March in Cairo to highlight the plight of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. For the last months I’ve worked on a radio documentary feature for ABC Radio...
View ArticleAslan says 2-state solution is dead, and Indyk calls him a liar
“The future of relations with the Muslim world” was the UN-sponsored event hosted at the New York Times building in central Manhattan on 21 July. Filled with journalists from Egypt, China and Turkey...
View ArticleMeeting Alan Dershowitz
Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz is currently in Sydney for the Festival of Dangerous Ideas and last night debated, in front of 2000 people at the Sydney Opera House, lawyer Geoffrey Robertson on...
View ArticleIsrael supporters using Wikileaks to promote attack on Iran are ignoring Arab...
Sever Plocker, a columnist for Yediot Aharonot, recently wrote with pride and some sadness that, “At least on the Iranian issue — and apparently on more than a few other matters — the leaders of the...
View ArticleAustralian detainee Mamdouh Habib recounts torture at the hands of the...
Australian citizen Mamdouh Habib was captured and tortured in the years after September 11 in both Egypt and Guantanamo Bay. For years, “war on terror” supporters defamed Habib and claimed he was lying...
View ArticleBoycotts, literary festivals and the responsibility of writers
‘For thirty years the country [Sri Lanka] went through a kind of hell and endured untold economic and cultural deprivation. Now, with things looking up, we need all the friendly input we can get from...
View ArticleHate Muslims and multiculturalism? Welcome to the Zionist party
The anniversary of 9/11 is a good time to reflect on one of the growing alliances in modern times; the far-right in Europe and beyond and hardline Zionism. Its most extreme form was expressed by the...
View ArticleDiscussing life ‘after zionism’ in Israel/Palestine
The drive from East Jerusalem to Tel Aviv takes around one hour. It’s a stinking hot day and I’ve come from Ramallah in mid-August 2012. Despite flying into Ben Gurion airport in the morning I am...
View ArticleIsrael’s image takes another hit with the ‘Prisoner X’ scandal
(Image via NPR) This post originally appeared in newmatilda.com. The case of Australian and Israeli citizen Ben Zygier and his alleged suicide in an Israeli jail in December 2010 provides an...
View ArticleLoewenstein: Looking for God in a West Bank colony, Jews shoot me death stares
Antony Loewenstein writes from East Jerusalem: The occupation hits you from the very beginning. Arriving at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, I caught a shared shuttle to East Jerusalem. I noticed an...
View Articledirty couches, dogs without water, synagogue seats, and teenage boys with...
(Settlers are shown a court order by the IDF on Hilltop 26. Photo by: Laura Weisman) Antony Loewenstein writes: Dining at a hamburger joint on the weekend in Jerusalem with a few members of...
View ArticleHope lives in Gaza despite siege, desperation and anger
The author with farmers east of the al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza. The drive from Gaza City to Khan Younis takes around 40 minutes. The roads are rocky and the landscape barren, with...
View ArticleStories from Gaza
The Western view of Gaza is of a desperate and violent place. Terrorism, extremism, Jew-hatred and poverty merge to create a dangerous brew. The Hamas-controlled territory poses a supposedly...
View ArticleLiving in Israel isn’t the solution to antisemitism
“Europe will forever be tainted”, wrote Haaretz journalist Anshel Pfeffer in the wake of the terrorist attacks against Charlie Hebdo magazine and the kosher supermarket in Paris. “It will always be the...
View ArticleThe global arms race between the US and China is devastating Africa and the...
The global arms race has never been more lucrative. America and China are engaged in unprecedented levels of spending around the world to influence and shape global affairs. The effects are devastating...
View Article‘We don’t want to find ourselves in a position like apartheid South Africa’:...
One of Israel’s biggest newspapers staged the country’s first national conference against the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement this week in Jerusalem. Yedioth Ahronoth and its website...
View ArticleGrassroots Jerusalem seeks to resist Israeli occupation while avoiding the...
Palestinians in Jerusalem, and the state of the city itself, are routinely ignored in much international press coverage of the Israel/Palestine conflict. While the rise in Jewish, religious...
View ArticleThe Palestinian state never had a chance: a review of Toufic Haddad’s...
Palestine Ltd: Neoliberalism and Nationalism in the Occupied Territory (I.B. Taurus), by Toufic Haddad The Israeli media barely covers Palestine. Although many local, corporate outlets have “Arab...
View ArticleIn photos: the dark reality in the occupied Jordan Valley
The Israeli occupation of Palestine is largely reported in the Western media, if it all, through the lens of the West Bank and Gaza. These areas contain millions of Palestinians whose lives are...
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