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Germany, Gaza and the Holocaust
GERMANY’S HOLOCAUST BETRAYAL By Gideon Levy in Haaretz, May 29, 2025 Germany has betrayed the memory of the Holocaust and its lessons. A country that saw its highest task as not to forget has forgotten. A country that told itself that it would never remain silent is silent. A country that once said “Never Again,” […]
Posted in: Human Rights, Sound Israeli journalism
Pro army propaganda and true journalism
June 5, 2025
The headline is mine and this is part of an attempt to reveal — and encourage — honest journalism, that continues to survive in an increasingly fascist state of Israel. What follows is the latest op-ed item by Gideon Levy, in Haaretz, Jun 4, 2025 Two pictures and a conclusion: The editor of the Presspectiva […]
Posted in: Sound Israeli journalism
Trump, ‘Boers’ and propaganda
June 4, 2025
(First published in Groundup, South Africa) Words can be plucked out of historical and literary context and weaponised. As such, they can be used to harm individuals and groups or to rally bullies and persecutors. There have been classic examples in recent history, and last week there was a globally broadcast example of a more […]
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Bus drivers, soccer and Zionism
June 2, 2025
Another example of: they cannot say they didn’t know If you’re shocked by Israelis beating an Arab bus driver, How are you not stunned by genocide? That was the question Gideon Levy asked Israelis in Haaretz on June 1 after Beitar Jerusalem soccer fans (picture below) brutally assaulted Palestinian bus drivers. Here is his column: […]
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Elon Musk’s environmental poison
May 31, 2025
Ever wondered why Elon Musk took charge of Donald Trump’s massive state cost-cutting exercise , DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) which included eviscerating the environmental protection agencies? One of the clearest answers has now arrived in the form of an excellent report from the Portside website in the United States. Watch it and be deeply […]
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The facts about ‘human shields’
May 31, 2025
The Israeli government has claimed consistently that the reason for the number of civilian deaths in Gaza is because Hamas uses civilians as “human shields”. But the real use of human shields is by the Zionist forces using what they call the “mosquito protocol”. Democracy Now has a good interview about the practice with a […]
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The aid debacle in Gaza
May 27, 2025
ISRAEL’S MAMMOTH SICK JOKE This week saw the horrible unravelling in Gaza of a grotesque public relations stunt that might better — if inadequately — have been described as a mammoth sick joke. It was in the chaos prompted by the “intervention” of the hastily founded and clearly politically motivated Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and its […]
Posted in: Human Rights
When compassion dies
May 25, 2025
Will Not One Israeli Say: End the War for Gaza’s Sake? By Gideon Levy, Haaretz, May 25, 2025 And there is not a single righteous person in Sodom. There are in Israel more than a few politicians and public figures calling to end the war. There are many people who are fighting courageously for the […]
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Terry Bell Writes 
June 7, 2025
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