Quick link – 60th anniversary of the Slansky Trial: Stalinism, anti-semitism and “anti-Zionism”.
Here is a very interesting article about the emergence of anti-semitism (parading as anti-Zionism) as a key element of Soviet and Eastern European Stalinism after WWII.
Cate Faehrmann on NSW Greens
NSW Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann has a column in today’s Sydney Morning Herald critical of the NSW Greens’ performance in, and preparation for, the NSW State election. Not everyone will agree with Cate’s assessment, but it has the benefit of [...]
Quick link: Engage in the struggle against anti-Jewish racism
Engage is a website originally formed by left-wing activists in Britain’s University and College Union opposed to proposals for an academic boycott of Israel. Engage’s current focus is as follows: Engage is a single issue campaign. It focuses on one [...]
Uncommon sense on Israel/Palestine from an interesting source
Yesterday, prompted by a link Paul Burns provided on my One day that shook the world thread, I did a Google search for reviews of Robert Service’s biography of Trotsky. Not surprisingly, many such reviews were on Trotskyist websites and [...]
Here we go again…
The Grauniad reports that the Israeli-Palestinian peace process might resume: Barack Obama is close to brokering an Israeli-Palestinian deal that will allow him to announce a resumption of the long-stalled Middle East peace talks before the end of next month, [...]
Australian Jews support Obama's MidEast Statement
My attention has been drawn (by Sol Salbe via the Australian Broad Left network) to this petition initiated by the Australian Jewish Democratic Society. The petition reads as follows:
What if they held a conference on racism and all the whiteys stayed away?
As I wrote in 2006, I support Israel’s right to exist and a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict, and I am a critic of unbalanced, inflammatory and obsessive criticism of Israel. However, I am also critical of unbalanced, inflammatory [...]
Israel votes
An open thread for discussion of the Israeli election… As a brief discussion starter, it seems to me that commentary which suggests that Likud, Kadima and Labour have all been vying with each other to prove how “tough” they are [...]
Eyeless in Gaza VII
Discussion on a previous thread on the Israeli/Gaza conflict can be continued on this one. Linking again to the latest from Open Democracy, I thought both Paul Rogers on Israel’s exhausted strategic doctrine and Khaled Hroub on whether the Israeli [...]
Eyeless in Gaza VI
It’s probably time to continue the Gaza conversation on another thread. A discussion starter might be to link to some interesting thoughts from Daniel Levy, who for mine is one of the clearest thinkers about the whole morass of Israeli-Palestinian [...]
The Obama inauguration: some interesting links
By Mark Bahnisch on January 21, 2009
There’s probably literally millions of reactions to Barack Obama’s inauguration on the intertubes today, so I wanted to try to highlight some more specific articles and posts which raise some interesting issues which might otherwise get lost in the crowd. [...]
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