July 09, 2008

Love, Money and Power at the AIPAC annual convention

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Phillip Weiss goes to the AIPAC convention and is stricken by how much love is in the air. He is also stricken by how much power and money a...
July 07, 2008

Support Namibian workers striking against Leviev

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Workers at a diamond polishing plant in Namibia belonging to Israeli settlement magnate Lev Leviev are on strike, and are looking for suppor...
July 06, 2008

Demonstrators religiously oppress Israeli Soldiers

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The Palestinian village of Na'alin is protesting against the Apartheid Wall which encroaches on their land. Protests are a non-no. So th...
July 05, 2008

Do Israeli soldiers kill civilians including children?

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It's a simple enough question but it seems to have the academics at Engage in a bit of a spin. It all started, this time, with this pos...
July 04, 2008

FLEEING OR FLYING?

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Here is a post by Ruth Tenne in response to Lyn Julius's recent Comment is free piece titled Jewish nakba Lyn Julius's account of t...

Michael Warschawski has a very very very good idea

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Michael Warschawski gave a talk at recent The Haifa Conference on the Palestinian Right of Return. The talk is available on the Alternative ...

Islamophobia?

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Here's Peter Osborne in today's Independent : Islamophobia – defined in 1997 by the landmark report from the Runnymede Trust as ...
July 03, 2008

1st candidate for the Villlage Idiot Award of 2008

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OK, what's the Village Idiot award? It's just my way of rewarding web commentary that goes well beneath anything I could have ever i...

On Hasbara and Brotherhood

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Yesterday a Palestinian construction worker from Occupied East Jerusalem drove an earth moving bulldozer down the main street of West Jerusa...

Can 600 Rabbis be wrong?

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From the European Jewish Press , July 1: In Brussels, the Rabbinical Center of Europe (RCE), which represents around 600 communal rabbis acr...

Rationalizating Israeli racism

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Richard Silverstein from Tikun Olam also blogged about the same issue of racism in Kiryat Gat. His post covers the story well, and of cours...

There's a place just outside Lisbon

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I know I'm a little late for explaining why it was all eyes on Ireland just recently but I didn't have anything within the remit of ...
July 01, 2008

Solid evidence that not all Israeli Jews are racists

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Despite 60 years of racist indoctrination that teaches Israeli Jews that Arabs are dangerous, dirty, and violent, some Jewish schoolgirls in...

Police dive on diva

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She looks like Melanie Phillips and sounds a bit like her when she talks, but can Mad Mel sing? I can't embed the video but you can see...

Silverstein on M & W on the telly

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Richard Silverstein had a Comment is free piece out yesterday on a Dutch documentary on Mearsheimer and Walt, which I haven't actually ...
June 30, 2008

Zionazi medal II

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Look what Lenni Brenner found: I already posted on the first find of the silver or silver plated medal and the fact that I don't reall...
June 29, 2008

Comedian found guilty of Blasphemy

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No, not in Saudi Arabia. This happened this week in France, a country where it is OK to publish offensive cartoons of Mohammed hiding a bom...
June 28, 2008

Not nice but not a nakba?

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There was a response on Comment is free yesterday to Lyn Julius's nasty little piece "on" the departure of Jews from Arab sta...