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Subject: Peace prize for Israel critic upsets Australia's Jews

 


ETHNIC INSENSITIVITY?

Peace prize for Israel critic 
upsets Australia's Jews

Australia honoring Israel critic with peace prize 
Jewish Telegraphic Agency  Tuesday, 11 August 2009

SYDNEY - Australian Jewish leaders are roiled over the awarding of 
the country's only international peace prize to a staunch critic of Israel. 

John Pilger, an award-winning Australian-born journalist and filmmaker 
living in London, will receive the Sydney Peace Prize in November. 

Robert Goot, president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, 
said it was a "sad day." 

"Pilger has done nothing to promote peace but has only promoted one 
side of the [Mideast] dispute," he told J-Wire, a local Jewish Web site. 
"He lacks objectivity and his pronouncements are often replete with 
factual inaccuracies and distortion of history. His uncritical acceptance 
of one side's narrative is made at the expense of Israel's position."  

New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies president Robin Margo said 
the decision was "a disgrace." 

The director of the Sydney Peace Foundation, Stuart Rees, said of Pilger, 
"His commitment to uncovering human rights abuses shines through his 
numerous books, films and articles. His work inspires all those who value 
peace with justice." 

Scores 'final solution' of Palestinian question

Pilger said he hoped the award would inspire young journalists "to break 
the silences that perpetuate injustice both far away and close to home." 

Previous winners of the prize include South Africa Archbishop Desmond 
Tutu, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary 
Robinson and Palestinian activist Hanan Ashrawi, whose award in 2003 
sparked a storm of protest from the Jewish community. 

In 2007 Pilger wrote that Israel and America had agreed to a "final
solution" 
to the problem of the Palestinians. Earlier this year Pilger said that
"Today's 
holocaust-in-the-making . is in its final stages. The difference today is 
that it is a joint US-Israeli project."

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