News/Politics

An Australian block to BDS

 

 The Australian government, Israel and its collaborator, the Palestinian Authority (PA) scored a victory over the Palestinian Boycott Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) Movement on November 29, 2014.

 

 
 

Vacy Vlazna

This was the shameful day that the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) , at its AGM, voted for No.1 from the following options,

THE TRAGEDY OF MODERN DEMOCRACY

Image: Israel collective punishment montage (courtesy Uprooted Palestinian)
 
 

Israel’s endless patter of propaganda always includes the refrain, “the Middle East’s only democracy.” The press does not think to ask how you can have a democracy with only one kind of person wanted as a voter and with only one kind of citizen enjoying full rights. Nor do they inquire about the millions who live under systematic oppression enforced by that “democracy.”

 
 
 

My Shame As A German Jew And Refugee From Nazi Germany

 Image: An area decimated by Israeli air strikes in Beit Hanoun, Gaza. Despite Israeli claims that the attacks have been targeted, many residential areas have faced widespread destruction.
 
 

I need to say again, as a Jew and refugee from Nazi Germany  I am ashamed of Israel, a country I once hoped to love.  Zionism  has succeeded  to activate the rise of anti-Semitism, a result in my view of a grisly, brutal agenda of ethnic cleansing, , apartheid and human rights crimes against Palestinians.

 

 

Obama takes hypocrisy to new high levels

An informed visitor from another planet who listened to Obama would scratch his head and say, “Has the president not heard about the occupied and oppressed Palestinians and their long struggle for freedom, justice and dignity?”

by Alan Hart

In laying out his plans to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIS, President Obama said this: 

‘I want to cut your throat’: Galloway beaten by pro-Israeli fanatic for Gaza views

 In his first TV interview after release from hospital, British MP George Galloway told RT he is surprised by the lack of condemnation from other UK politicians of the brutal attack on him. The assault by a pro-Israeli man left Galloway in much pain.

 
Galloway, 60, was brutally beaten in Notting Hill, London last Friday allegedly for his views on the conflict in Gaza.