Norman Finkelstein on David Cameron’s Dodgy ‘Friends’

British Prime Minister David Cameron has long professed himself a ‘passionate friend of Israel’.  He is also a passionate supporter of the Conservative Friends of Israel, whose meetings he has repeatedly addressed and whose long-time director, Stuart Polak, he awarded with a peerage.  Cameron is reputed to be an intimate friend and ally of Israel’s…

Norman Finkelstein on Bernie, Palestine and Politics

The great Norman Finkelstein has been interviewed on Bernie, Palestine and Politics. Among other things, he talks about how Israel has successfully defanged human rights NGO coverage of Israeli crimes: most human rights organisations sat out Operation Protective Edge (2014), while Amnesty reverted to its pre-1987 apologetics. This is an extremely dangerous development, since the human rights…

EXCLAMATION POINTS

Second Lebanon War (2006): [D]uring the final 72 hours of the conflict… Israel engaged in saturation cluster bombing, hitting more than 850 strike sites with millions of submunitions. According to the United Nations, 90 percent of Israel’s cluster munition strikes took place over this brief period. A commander of an IDF MRLS unit told a…

WHY IT’S IMPORTANT TO PROTEST DURING ISRAEL’S MASSACRES

Benjamin Netanyahu explains: BILL MAHER: Unlike America, Israel seems to be able to fight wars very quickly. What is your secret? Because we don't seem to have the hang of that. NETANYAHU: The secret is that we have America.  And America... The point is that Israel, when it fights, is subject to international pressures, and…

EXCLAMATION POINTS

Second Lebanon War (2006): [D]uring the final 72 hours of the conflict... Israel engaged in saturation cluster bombing, hitting more than 850 strike sites with millions of submunitions. According to the United Nations, 90 percent of Israel’s cluster munition strikes took place over this brief period. A commander of an IDF MRLS unit told a Ha’aretz…

MEET THE IDF’S NEW CHIEF OF STAFF

First published at New Left Project A big day for Gadi Eisenkot, as he is sworn in as the new chief of staff of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). Eisenkot has decades of experience enforcing Israeli rule in places that aren’t Israel, serving as an officer in the First Lebanon War and as a commander…