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News & Views by Terry Bell
A future Nuremberg?
We have heard it all before: ‘We were only obeying orders’. It’s the standard excuse by state sponsored murderers, torturers and assorted sadists when finally brought to book. As Gideon Levy points out in this latest column in Haaretz, it applies very much in Israel today. May 22, 2025 The Israel Defense Forces has killed […]
Posted in: Human Rights, Sound Israeli journalism
Netanyahu’s genocidal legacy
May 19, 2025
Provided as a contribution to understanding and a tribute to honest journalism STOP CALLING IT A GAZA ‘WAR’By Gideon Levy, May 19, 2025 (in Haaretz) Over the weekend, the Israeli military launched a destruction operation in Gaza that all of Israel is a partner to, whether by action, by disregard or by indifference. No one […]
Posted in: Uncategorized
‘Annihilating Hamas’ = Destroying Gaza
May 15, 2025
Gideon Levy, writing in Haaretz, May 11, 2025, highlights the dominant views in Israel and the reality that continues to be ignored. Everyone is in favor of destroying Hamas. Who would oppose this? No one would. Extremists want it to happen before the hostages are released, and the moderates say: Let’s release the hostages first […]
Posted in: Sound Israeli journalism
11. bullets and a 14-year-old boy
May 14, 2025
IDF soldiers in an ambush rained fire down on a trio of 14-year-old Palestinian Americans who may have been throwing stones, but harmlessly. Two escaped, wounded; the third was killed after being sprayed with bullets by Gideon Levy with photographs by Alex Levac (unavailable) May 2, 2025 A brightly lit, elegant, spacious living room. Hanging […]
Posted in: Uncategorized
Satire, race and ‘Afrikaners’
May 14, 2025
I once maintained that it would be impossible to write and produce a good satirical show in today’s South Africa. Now I am sure I was right: even before any writing is complete, reality will make the subject matter redundant. Mind you, this week’s Amerikan refugee saga took matters to an even more ludicrous level […]
Posted in: Uncategorized
The psuedo science that poisons society
April 2, 2025
(First published by News24, South Africa) Pseudo-science, advancing racist, gender and ageist discrimination is a major problem that continues to be widely promoted on digital media. And one important area where it has a malign influence is on parental attitudes and on government policies, especially regarding children and education. Yet if we wish to build […]
Posted in: Commentary
Supporting honest journalism in israel
March 26, 2025
This is the lead editorial in the Haaretz newspaper in Israel this week. It is one indication of the existence of genuine journalists in an authoritarian and racist state. They deserve the support of principled journalists and democrats everywhere. Three weeks ago, Hamdan Ballal, a Palestinian activist and resident of the West Bank town of […]
Posted in: Uncategorized
Terry Bell Writes 
May 22, 2025
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