Posts Tagged ‘Avigdor Lieberman’
DENIS GOLDBERG of the ANC and Rivonia Defendant Supporting the Palestinian Hunger Strike
Denis Goldberg, Cape Town, 24 April 2017 UPDATE First Palestine Prison Hunger Striker Dies in West Bank A young Palestinian man became the first victim of the open-ended hunger strike in the occupied West Bank on Monday. The 30-year-old, identified as Mazan al-Maghrebi, passed away at his home in the city of Ramallah. Dennis Goldberg…
Read MoreCould you think of a more suitable Foreign Minister for Israel?
A good well researched story by Richard Silverstein of Tikkun Olam on the pedigree of Israel’s fascist foreign minister. A former night club bouncer from Moldova, he beat up a 12 year old child and was convicted in Israel. But none of this stopped him from being elected, along with other racists, to Israel’s Knesset …
Read MoreCorbyn Abandons 30 Years of Support for Palestine – But Despite Grovelling He Was Still Booed
The Answers that Corbyn Should Have Given to the Question What He Most Admired about Israel At the JW3 ‘debate’ earlier this week, Jeremy Corbyn was asked what he most admired in Israel. This was an ideal opportunity to tell the audience and the questioner some home truths about both the Occupied Territories and Israel itself.…
Read MoreSoldiers instructed by Defence Minister Lieberman not to play with refugee children
Refugees Threaten Jewish Identity in the ‘Only Democracy in the Middle East’ African refugees hold up banner refuting Miri Regev, Israel’s ‘Culture’ Minister, who described them as equivalent to ‘cancer’ Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman is, even by Israeli standards a fascist. He has called for the decapitation of Israeli Palestinians [Lieberman: Disloyal Israeli Arabs Should…
Read MoreScratch a Liberal Zionist and You find a Jewish Racist
Hannah Weisfeld of the Zionist Yachad group first accepts then deletes my response to her article on Jewish Identity The hypocritical Liberal Zionist group Yachad which argues that support for Israel is compatible with support for peace Hannah Weisfeld – Yachad Director who prefers to delete critical comments rather than justify her pretentious writings UPDATE: …
Read MoreIsraeli Arabs told to Keep Away From Jewish Swimming Pools
The Ugly Face of Israeli Apartheid In Israel as the article from Jonathan Cook below explains, everything from education to land is segregated. Arabs get the left overs. Israel is a state where a plurality of its Jewish population (48%) want Israeli Arabs to be expelled. Nearly half of Jewish Israelis want to expel Arabs,…
Read MoreThe Labour Right’s Anti-Semitism Heresy Hunt
Learning from Galileo and the Inquisition In 1633 Galileo was convicted for Heresy by the Inquisition for arguing in support of the Copernican belief that the Earth revolved around the Sun. This was despite the fact that most of the scientists and philosophers at the time were convinced that the Aristotelian concept of a stationery…
Read MoreWhy ZIONISM is as relevant now as it ever was
A Response to Didi Herman’s ‘Zionisms’ Didi Herman – Believes We Should Vacate Zionism & Use Israeli Nationalism In an article ‘Zionisms’ in Critical Thinking of 29th April 2016 Didi Herman argues that the left should drop the use of the term ‘Zionism’. I disagree. The term Zionism is as relevant now as it has…
Read MoreIsrael is jettisoning even the trappings of democracy
Apologists for the Israeli state always refer to the fact that Arabs have the vote in Israel, as if putting your cross on the ballot paper once every 4 years rectifies all the racist injustices of the previous years. In fact nearly 50% of Israeli Palestinians don’t even vote because it is considered a waste…
Read MoreBeyond Satire – Israel’s New ‘Justice’ Minister is an Advocate of Genocide
Rudoren covers up Shaked’s genocidal statements in ‘NYT’ An ugly heart masked by good looks Benjamin Netanyahu has appointed as Justice Minister, Ayelet Shaked, a member of Jewish Home. She is a far-Right member of Knesset who last year, just before Operation Protective Edge (the attack on Gaza) made genocidal statements against Palestinians. Shaked and…
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