June 07, 2009

In Israel the law is supreme

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As we all know, Israel is a state of law. Everything the state does is legal and pedantically lawful. Citizens are held to the same high sta...

Ben White for beginners

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Always useful these beginners' books. Ben White has written Israeli apartheid: a beginner's guide and it's being launched (kind...
June 06, 2009

Abunimah on Bush lite

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Here's a perceptive Comment is free piece by Ali Abunimah : Once you strip away the mujamalat – the courtesies exchanged between guest ...

Galilee communities: We're not racist, we just don't want Arabs

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Give it to Haaretz editors for this smart headlines. What is it about? It is about Jewish settlers in the Galilee. The stupidity and sense o...

Tagging along with all the young Jews

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It was the tags on this youtube clip that struck me before I even saw the disgusting video. See them here: israel ...
June 05, 2009

Revisiting the chosen people

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Here's a rather naive article in yesterday's Ha'aretz by Shulamit Aloni about Israel's lurch from something acceptable to s...
June 02, 2009

Israel and Egypt murder black refugees together

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An Egyptian security official says border police fatally shot an African migrant trying to cross into Israel on Tuesday. The official says p...
June 01, 2009

Abbas doing his best

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to satisfy the marching orders he received from Emperor Obama last week in Washington. And his best is killing Palestinians who refuse to ta...

Biden to Lebanon: how would like to be destroyed?

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In a week or so, people in Lebanon go to the polls in an important elections that pits the parties that want to carry water for Washington a...

Trying to shake Ken Loach

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There's a letter in today's Independent condemning the sheer disingenuousness of Ken Loach's detractors, one in particular, ove...
May 31, 2009

With friends like Saudi Arabia, who needs enemies

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Saudi Arabia awarded $1.8 billion dollars to a consortium that would build a rail link between Mecca and Medina. One company in the consorti...

Prisoners of Conscience jailed for 65 years for helping Palestinian children

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Five victims of the Holy Land Foundation witch hunt, including Ghassan Elhashi (left) and Shukri abu Baker (right) sentenced to 65 years in ...

World Medical Association headed by overt racist

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Wonderful report in the Jewish Chronicle . It's "about" the protest signed by 752 physicians from 40 different countries call...
May 30, 2009

Israel's fear of history

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Many thanks to johng for pointing this article in today's Independent to me. For the Palestinian citizens of Israel, life is becoming ...

A tale of tu quoques

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Actually it's more than two. There are a few things that sparked off this post. First up, there was an insanely racist post at Harry...
May 29, 2009

Pride comes before a fool

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Well this is a turn up. Well a turnabout rather than a turn up. See a piece of the article from the Toronto Post in my earlier post : Que...

Shame on Pride!

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What a disgrace! See this report headed, Toronto Pride organizers ban anti-Zionist group, by Joseph Brean in the Toronto Post : Queers Ag...
May 28, 2009

Israel's racism is in the water

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as well as everything else.Here's a report from the Guardian : A deepening drought in the Middle East is aggravating a dispute over wa...

More everyday academic apartheid in Israel

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There's a grimly fascinating account in AIC about the mundane nature of Israeli apartheid in academia. The story is how a private school...
May 27, 2009

65 years jail for aiding Palestinians

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I've only just read that one of the founders of the Holy Land Foundation, at one time the largest Muslim charity in the US, has been giv...