With Canada and Israel now having formally withdrawn from the UN’s 2009 Durban II conference, serious questions are emerging over the attendance of other democratic states.
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A gray-haired, white-skinned, male journalist is savaging the first black President of the United States as an unreconstructed warmonger, under a headline lifted from the title of a Public Enemy track released back in 1988. Yes, it’s John Pilger.
This is a guest post by Karl Pfeifer, a veteran anti-fascist and journalist based in Vienna. His report here is based upon translations from the Hungarian press
On October 25, 400 new members of the Hungarian Guard, including some children, took the oath of the extreme right-wing movement in Budapest’s Heroes Square.
Continue reading ‘Right Wing Extremists Take to Budapest’s Streets’
Omar Barghouti is a leading advocate of BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) against Israel and a key figure in PACBI (the Palestinian Campaign for an Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel). If his latest article on the execrable Counterpunch website is anything to go by, Barghouti is worried that some boycotters are getting cold feet.
Continue reading ‘Antisemitism Lies at the Heart of the Boycott Movement’
This is a guest post by Karl Pfeifer, a veteran anti-fascist and journalist based in Vienna.
UPDATE, OCTOBER 16: Haider’s successor has confirmed that Haider was drunk - very drunk - when he crashed his car.
The Austrian papers are full of pictures of the suntanned politician Jörg Haider, who was a man for all seasons and who learned the lesson from American politicians to always smile and to shake hands with everybody. If one could believe some newspapers and some declarations of the Austrian political elite, a sort of Austrian Mother Teresa has passed away. The former Social Democrat Heinz Fischer, who is now President of Austria, described Haider’s death as a “human tragedy.”
Continue reading ‘Jörg Haider: A Leader Who Died As He Lived’
Noel Ignatiev is one the last people you would expect to be authoring an entry on Zionism for an encyclopedia published under a well-known, trusted imprint. But open Volume 3 of the “Encyclopedia of Race and Racism,” which carries the names of both Macmillan Reference USA (now owned by the Michigan-based Gale, Cengage Learning company) and the Macmillan Social Science Library, and you will see that he has done just that.
Continue reading ‘Macmillan USA Encyclopedia Damns Zionism as Racism’
This is a guest post by Karl Pfeifer, a veteran anti-fascist and journalist based in Vienna.
Austria does usually not make international political headlines, but managed to do so on 28 September when the country’s main two extreme right wing parties, the Freedom Party (FPÖ) led by H.C. Strache and the Alliance for Austria’s Future (BZÖ) led by Jörg Haider, together won 29% of the parliamentary election vote, giving the lie to those who claim that the extreme right is going to be marginal in Austria.
A new survey of global attitudes on subjects ranging from minorities to gender to terrorism makes grim reading. In Europe, malign sentiments towards Jews and Muslims are on the rise. In the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world - from Egypt to Turkey to Indonesia - opinions about Jews are overwhelmingly negative.
Now here’s an intriguing one. A Malaysian politician has issued a thinly veiled threat of mob violence against that country’s Chinese minority by warning them not to become like American Jews.
