Archive for January, 2010
Myself and a few others – including but not limited to the authors of the Democrat’s Diary, For Tomorrow and Convenient Lies - have just launched a new leftist political site, New Left Project, to provide a space for non-sectarian, progressive, internationalist political commentary. We’ll be publishing original articles as well as aggregating the best from [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, Media, US | 10 Comments
Tags: Gaza, Haiti, humanitarianism, New Left Project, Noam Chomsky, Racism
Related reading: – Israeli Minister Yuri Edelstein cited the Holocaust to dismiss the Goldstone report: “The connection between the Goldstone Report and the international Holocaust memorial day is not an easy thing. On the other hand, however, we must learn the lessons from what happened. Then too, those who yelled out were told that Hitler [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, Videos | 4 Comments
Tags: Holocaust, Holocaust Industry, Israel Charny, Norman Finkelstein
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, Videos | 1 Comment
Tags: Gaza, Norman Finkelstein, Operation Cast Lead
The anchor in the video – the one repeatedly dismissing an elected Israeli-Palestinian MK as “impudent” for daring to protest the murder of Palestinian children – is Dan Margalit, among other things a former reporter for Ha’aretz and former editor of Ma’ariv. He rejected the Goldstone report into the Gaza massacre as “classic anti-Semitism“, dismissing [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, Videos | 2 Comments
Tags: colonialism, Dan Margalit, MK Jamal Zahalka, Racism, zionism
More Ha’aretz racism
No, I’m not here referring merely to the execrable Bradley Burston: Ha’aretz, the bastion of Israel’s liberal elite, has form in this regard: see, for instance, here, here and here. What does it say about the degraded state of a society’s political discourse if its most intellectual and liberal mainstream paper is able to run [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, Media | 8 Comments
Tags: 'demographic balance', Ha'aretz, Racism, zionism



