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 […]

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 […]

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) are […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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Des­pite the Israeli government’s threat to for­cibly stop them the Free Gaza group made a second suc­cess­ful sail­ing to Gaza Strip today. Their first sail­ing, on 24 August, made them the first people to freely enter Gaza Strip in forty-one years. Israel has imposed an immoral and illegal1 block­ade on Gaza Strip since June 2007, in an attempt to […]