Ali Abunimah is a Palestinian who resides in Chicago. As the co-founder of the essential Electronic Intifada website, his goal is to give voice to the Palestinian cause and challenge the dominant Zionist narrative of our time. Leading Jewish blogger Phil Weiss writes that people like Ali should be seriously considered as a major figure in the American debate, yet he remains marginalised. Why? Read more »
The following advertisement, sponsored by Australians for Palestine, appeared in newspapers across Australia today, including the Sydney Morning Herald and Australian. Read more »
Ali Abunimah, Sydney Morning Herald, May 13:
Israeli leaders understand what they are up against; the Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, said last November: “If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights, then, as soon as that happens, the state of Israel is finished.” Read more »
Palestine Think Tank is a new site dedicated to critically examining the Israel/Palestine conflict and debunking Zionism.
This recent article, Israel Foreign Affairs Ministry: Lies are Truth, is worth reading.
My following article appears in today’s edition of Crikey:
Antony Loewenstein, author of My Israel Question, writes: Read more »
Talking honestly about Palestine in Australia is clearly too challenging for some:
The decision by a Sydney library to dump an exhibition about Palestinian refugees after a visit by counter-terrorism police the night before it opened has been criticised as an act of censorship. Read more »
Myths on Who’s Really ‘Pro-Israel’ (by the co-founder of the new moderate Israel lobby, J-Street.)
My following piece in the Melbourne Age, co-written with Michael Shaik, reflects on Israel’s 60th anniversary:
“If you will it,” wrote Theodore Herzl, the founding father of the Zionist movement, in 1902, “it is no dream.”
The dream to which he referred was the establishment of a Jewish state in the Arab country of Palestine. Read more »
My following article appears in today’s ABC Unleashed:
The fifth anniversary in March of the Iraq war should have given the political and media elite time to reflect on their actions since 2003. Virtually ignored by the mainstream media were stories such as life in Fallujah, where citizens remain mired in poverty and resentment. Read more »
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