AJC, which publishes Z Word, has started a new blog featuring news, views and commentary as the Durban Review Conference in Geneva approaches. It’s called Durban II Countdown and is a must-read in the coming weeks.
Archive for March, 2009
This is a guest post by Edward P. Joseph. A leading commentator on international affairs, Joseph is the author of the essay The Open Society and Its Critics: Minorities and Political Lobbying in the United States, a critique of the “Israel Lobby” thesis, published on Z Word in February 2008.
Poor David Broder. He - and so many others - have missed the point of the whole Charles Freeman flap. The point is not Freeman’s character or his many capabilities or even whether or not Freeman got a “fair hearing.” The harsh truth is that nothing in our system guarantees potential appointees to high office a “fair hearing.”
Continue reading ‘Chas Freeman: Remember the US Constitution’
Of all the commentaries on the Chas Freeman affair, David Rothkopf on Foreign Policy offers one of the more insightful takes, not least because of his devastating assault on “Israel Lobby” co-author Stephen Walt’s tired, whiny conspiracy theories.
This is a guest post by Manny Waks and Geoffrey Winn
Australia should follow the United States and Canadian lead in withdrawing from the dubiously named United Nations Durban II “anti-racism” conference to be held in April in Geneva.
Vilified is a new short film which I wrote and directed for AJC, the organization which sponsors Z Word. Exposing the lies and libels which target Israel, you can watch it here on YouTube.
Our old friend Bongani Masuku, the international relations secretary of the South African trade union confederation COSATU, has been in action again at Wits University.
“Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair announced today that Ambassador Charles W. Freeman Jr. has requested that his selection to be Chairman of the National Intelligence Council not proceed. Director Blair accepted Ambassador Freeman’s decision with regret.” More here and on many, many other sites.
Get ready for an onslaught on the, ahem, “Israel Lobby.”
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Reading the Dalai Lama’s description of Tibet transformed into a “hell on earth” as a result of the Chinese occupation got me thinking about Chas Freeman again. But let me leave it to Michael Weiss to explain why.
Recently, I asked whether Israel was becoming the new pariah state of international sport. More evidence of that emerging status comes from the Davis Cup tennis tournament in Sweden. Mira Vogel at Engage picks up the story:
This is a guest post by David Adler. A leading writer on jazz, you can visit David’s other site here for essays, reviews and criticism.
Can you imagine a journalist for a liberal newspaper referring in neutral, even vaguely congratulatory terms to an artist’s “provocatively anti-gay rhetoric,” or “provocatively anti-black rhetoric,” or “provocatively anti-Arab rhetoric”?
Via Engage comes the sad news that Steve Cohen, a British Jewish socialist and campaigner against racism and antisemitism, has passed away.
In the wake of the US decision to disengage from the UN conference in Geneva which insists on billing itself as a pow-wow against “racism,” other countries are beginning to follow suit.
Ariel Lifschitz, a man who did much to bring crimes and irregularities at the heart of the initial investigation into the AMIA attack to light, was last night briefly kidnapped by armed men in the city of Buenos Aires. Lifschitz’s captors identified themselves as members of the SIDE, the Argentine state intelligence service, and before they abandoned their victim on waste ground on the edge of the city they tortured him with knives and a blow torch. He had the letters “AMIA” carved into his back and one account of what happened mentions a series of numbers being carved into his arm.
Continue reading ‘AMIA Whistleblower Kidnapped and Tortured’
