The following short clip is from a forthcoming feature-length documentary by Sydney film-maker Inka Stafrace about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. It focuses primarily on Israel’s brutal occupation of the West Bank. I was a consultant on the movie:
How an increasingly vocal group of young Canadian Jews are speaking out against Israel’s racism and brutality.
The following article appears in this week’s Australian Jewish News (AJN):
Speaking to a crowd of almost 200 people at Gleebooks in Glebe recently, outspoken Israel critic Antony Loewenstein spoke with Palestinian-American author Ali Abunimah about his perceived need for a shift in understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the necessity of moving towards a one-state solution. Read more »
What the hell is wrong with American Jews?
Popular U.S. clothing store Urban Outfitters has halted sales of a T-shirt apparently supporting Palestinian violence that has sparked outrage in the American Jewish community. Read more »
Prof. Mordechai Kedar of the Arab Studies Department in Bar-Ilan University argues on al-Jazeera that Jerusalem will always remain the undivided capital of the Jewish state and Israel’s occupation of the West Bank isn’t actually an occupation at all. These are the voices, too rarely heard in the West, that have made a two-state solution an impossibility. Jewish racism in all its squalor: Read more »
Following my debate last week on SBS Television regarding Israel/Palestine and the death of American peace activist Rachel Corrie, the following comment was left on the program’s website by Melbourne-based Jewish writer, Philip Mendes: Read more »
The following program screened last night on Australia’s finest current affairs program, SBS Dateline: Read more »
Israeli newspaper Haaretz has become one of the great journals of the world, fearlessly reporting the effects of the occupation. But a new German owner appears determined to radically shift its focus. An insider writes: Read more »
The following interview appears in today’s Sydney Morning Herald:
Which writer, alive or dead, would you most like to see at a writers’ festival?
George Orwell. We need somebody to skewer the imperial ambitions of the right and the self-righteousness of the left. He could regale audiences with tales of war and hopefully convince any waverers in the audience that the next Iraq should best be avoided. Read more »
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