Last Straw

It surprises me to the degree that many people lose their moral compass over Israel. We’ve come to expect it from Israelis; currently they’re promising to protect their war criminals from international prosecution over their recent massacre of Gazans.
But, then there’s people like Mark Thompson, the BBC’s director general, who has been instrumental in the BBC’s [...]

An international boycott against Israel, not unlike that against Apartheid South Africa, finally looks to be gaining traction.
Naomi Klein has made a good case as to why is long past time and reports in Israeli media indicate that, since Israel’s recent massacre of 1300 Palestinians, the boycott is starting to have an effect.
If you want [...]

No Right Turn speculates on Israel’s real military goal:
Israel has announced that it is nearing its military goals in Gaza. Given that they seem to have accomplished nothing of military significance in their campaign – they have not destroyed Hamas, and the rockets they claim to want to stop (but in fact provoked with their invasion) [...]

This is video of Oakland policeman Johannes Mehserle shooting an unarmed man, Oscar Grant, while he lay face down on the ground.

Update: I just had someone email me to say Mehserle is not a coward because he mistaken his gun a for a taser. So, however unlikely that sounds, let’s suppose for a long minute that Mehserle mistaken his gun for a taser. [...]

Oxford professor of international relations Avi Shlaim served in the Israeli army and has never questioned the state’s legitimacy. But its merciless assault on Gaza has led him to devastating conclusions:
The only way to make sense of Israel’s senseless war in Gaza is through understanding the historical context. Establishing the state of Israel in May [...]

Israelis1 showing off how monstrous they are:
Israel’s assault on Gaza has exacted the bloodiest toll of civilian lives yet, when the bombing of UN schools being used as refugee centres and of housing killed more than 50 people, including an entire family of seven young children.
Most of those killed were in the school playground and in the [...]

This video clip was taken with a mobile camera immediately after a terrorist Israeli air strike hit a busy market early on Saturday 03, Jan 2009, Gaza.

Naturally, Zionism sees new media as “a new war zone”:
The body, known as the National Information Directorate, was set up eight months ago following recommendations from an Israeli inquiry into the 2006 Lebanon war. Its role is to deal with hasbara – meaning, in Hebrew, “explanation”, and referring variously to information, spin, and propaganda.
One of [...]

It’s deplorable the number of people, mostly so-called “liberals,” who choose to keep their mouths shut in the face of the scourge that is Zionism, something Ronnie Kasrils, a South African politician who was active in the fight against apartheid from the 60’s onwards, described as “far worse” than apartheid South Africa.
Imagine what these same people would be saying, [...]