July 30, 2005

Jane's military turns

No not the arms experts. This is Jane Fonda we're talking about here. Chris Doyle of the Council for the Advancement of Arab British U...

The old will die and the young will forget

No prizes for guessing that those are the words of Ben Gurion regarding the victims of Israel's first ethnic cleansing campaign. I was ...

Vatican wrong on Israel!

The Vatican has issued a rather blunt statement condemning Israel's war crimes against the Palestinians. The Vatican pointed out that it...
July 29, 2005

"Excuse makers" to be blacklisted

Some commentators across the pond are saying that anyone who suggests that America's own actions have increased terrorism against Americ...
July 28, 2005

Jewdas on the lookout

I just want to highlight a comment left by one of the contributors to the Jewdas website: Hi, I'm one of the people behind Jewdas. We...

Settlers have a dream

Ha'aretz had a report yesterday on how a setllers' leader, Pinhas Wallerstein, has compared the settlers to Martin Luther King's...

The rough with the smooth

Some good letters in today's Guardian, criticising Jonathan Freedland's article in yesterday's Guardian. There are some bad on...
July 27, 2005

Jonathan Freedland: No one excuses zionist atrocities

In a comment piece criticising Ken Livingstone for equating Hamas with Likud, here's Jonathan Freedland: Since the intifada began five y...
July 26, 2005

What do zionists do?

Here's a new website with a guide for the lazy zionist . The third pillar of British Zionist identity is a classic: the letter of compla...

What is zionism and is it like fascism?

Well I think it's very like fascism though I've even been ticked off by anti-zionists for saying so. The link above is to a review ...

War criminal awaits apology from Ken

Another one for the definitions of chutzpah section. The war criminal Ariel Sharon says that he expects an apology from Ken Livingstone for...
July 25, 2005

Met police build Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land

[Hat-tip Eurosabra ] Lenin (of the Tomb) carries the story of how the British Metropolitan police have been trained in Israel. The only sign...

Three poems by Michael Rosen

who is not now, nor has he ever been, a member of the Socialist Workers Party. From Iraq We have no mouths We evaporated You don’t see the h...
July 24, 2005

Beyond Chutzpah "ready to roll": UCP

"Marilyn" at the University of California Press has emailed Norman Finkelstein as follows: Norm, just wanted to assure you that I ...
July 23, 2005

With Fox on our side

When the first suspicions arose that the restrained man shot five times in the head by British police may have been innocent this is what Fo...

Pollard stays in jail

Jonathan Pollard, who is serving life in America for spying for Israel, has had yet another appeal turned down. I wonder what those people ...

Shot man "innocent"

According to reports, the Asian looking man (who is believed to be Brazilian) who was shot five times in the head while two men held him dow...

Howard Jacobson: why can't they be more like us Jews

"They" being Muslims of course. Here's Howard Jacobson in the Independent today explaining why, in spite of the fact that, fo...
July 21, 2005

Ken upsets the zionists, part 94

Ken Livingstone has upset the zionists and their cohorts in the war party by daring to suggest, on BBC Radio 4, what most people are suggest...
July 20, 2005

Finkelstein's Beyond Chutzpah heads for the shops

Statement by University of California Press The University of California Press is pleased to publish Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-...