Israel 2023, South Africa 1948. I’ve lived through it before: grabbing power, fascism and racism, destroying democracy. Israel is going where South Africa was 75 years ago. It’s like watching the replay of a horror movie. In 1948, as a teenager in Cape Town, I followed the results of the May 26 election on a […]
Read MoreEditorial | The Legal Coup Is the Means. The Ends Are Annexation and Apartheid
While public attention is focused on the government’s planned legal coup and the opposition and the protest movement are both devoting their energy to preventing it, the settlers are expanding their settlement enterprise, preparing to annex territory and erase the Green Line – the line between Israel and the West Bank where Israeli sovereignty ends […]
Read MoreGreens say Israel is ‘practising crime of apartheid’ and call for boycotts of far-right figures
The Greens have adopted a new policy position on Palestine and Israel which expresses concern that Israel’s “ongoing colonisation of Palestinian land” is eroding the potential for a two-state solution and states that “Israel is practising the crime of apartheid”. The updated resolution — which was backed by Greens MPs and senators and drafted in […]
Read MoreCivil society organizations condemn Israel’s targeted smear campaign against UN rapporteur, Francesca Albanese
Civil society organizations condemn Israel’s targeted smear campaign against UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese The smear campaign against UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese is the latest in a pattern of attacks aimed at silencing criticism of Israel and undermining the work of the United Nations. BY OPEN LETTER DECEMBER 26, 2022 The following statement was issued by […]
Read More“World’s oldest hatred”: Rabbi Shmuley claims people who attack Israel hate Jews
Author Rabbi Shmuley Boteach says when people claim they hate Israel but love Jewish people, they are “dyed in the wool liars” and anti-Semites. He said Jewish people are not hated because of “Israeli aggression”, but rather Israel is hated because of anti-Semitism. “The reason why people attack Israel is they don’t care about Arab […]
Read MorePalestinians ‘weren’t there at all’– Netanyahu tells credulous Jordan Peterson
Palestinians ‘weren’t there at all’– Netanyahu tells credulous Jordan Peterson BY PHILIP WEISS DECEMBER 14, 2022 ( https://mondoweiss.net/2022/12/palestinians-werent-there-at-all-netanyahu-tells-credulous-jordan-peterson/ ) Conservative scholar/media star Jordan Peterson turned over a new leaf this fall by touring Israel with the ideologue Ben Shapiro and dining with Benjamin Netanyahu. Now Peterson has published an interview with Netanyahu titled “Does Israel Have a Right […]
Read MoreIsraelis have put Benjamin Netayahu back in power. Palestinians will likely pay the price
Israelis Have Put Benjamin Netanyahu Back in Power. Palestinians Will Likely Pay the Price. Dec. 13, 2022, 5:05 a.m. ET Top of Form Bottom of Form By Diana Buttu (New York Times) Ms. Buttu is a lawyer and former adviser to the negotiating team of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Sign up for the Opinion Today newsletter Get expert […]
Read MoreThe Age Letters, ‘Challenging choices’
I agree with Peter Hartcher (“We must stand with the Uyghurs”, 6/9), but before we take on China, a major trading partner, “we should stand with the Palestinians”, and implement all Hartcher’s recommendations against Israel. Our supposed ally is, according to the same organisations quoted by Hartcher, an apartheid regime and a major violator of Palestinian human rights.
Read MoreNo room for love in Apartheid Israel
The right to intimacy serves as both a realm of domination as well as a form of resistance under Israeli settler-colonialism.
Read More‘NYT’ and UN Security Council platform apartheid charge against Israel
‘NYT’ and UN Security Council platform apartheid charge against Israel
Influential Jewish organizations who denounce as antisemitic the reports
accusing Israel of apartheid are a "threat to freedom," Peter Beinart writes in
the New York Times.