Search Results: anti-Semitism
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AUSTRALIA
- Ruby Hamad
- 14 November 2011
16 Comments
Israel is using its positive treatment of gays as a means of 'selling' its campaign against Palestinians. Before automatically siding with Israel, the international gay community would do well to consider the ways in which all forms of discrimination are linked.
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AUSTRALIA
- Antony Loewenstein
- 03 September 2010
31 Comments
The Australian Jewish News has condemned the National Council of Churches in Australia (NCCA) for calling on Australians to boycott Israeli goods made in the illegally occupied Palestinian territories. The NCCA is supporting a campaign of groups determined to act where western political leaders have failed. Leaders including Barack Obama, Julia Gillard or Tony Abbott refuse to acknowledge what they are backing when they declare they are ‘pro-Israel’.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 09 April 2010
6 Comments
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Mendes
- 05 February 2010
3 Comments
The myth of an international Jewish communist conspiracy has long been a central diet of anti-Semitic agendas. Dutch academic Andre Gerrits provides a dispassionate an balanced account of this contentious topic.
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AUSTRALIA
- Nigel Mitchell
- 25 May 2009
7 Comments
The Pope visited the Middle East in an attempt to address the controversy regarding 'Holocaust denier' Bishop Richard Williamson. In the same week, in Australia, 'revisionist' historian Frederick Toben was sentenced to three months in jail.
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AUSTRALIA
- Peter Matheson
- 08 January 2009
4 Comments
An overweening trust in
military muscle has led Israel into this campaign; it is hard to overlook the parallels with the Shock and Awe
curtain-raiser to the Iraq debacle. It seems there is an unspoken assumption that
Palestinian lives are not so important as Israeli ones.
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AUSTRALIA
- Philip Mendes
- 09 May 2008
25 Comments
Israel's 60th anniversary next week will be an occasion for celebration by Jews throughout the world. The formation of Israel in 1948 gave Jews renewed hope, but Palestinians remember it as a time of mourning. These conflicting narratives are reflected within the Australian context.
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INTERNATIONAL
We have to take racism seriously, says Anthony Ham.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Mike Ticher reviews Hugo Hamilton’s The Speckled People.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Moira Rayner
- 24 June 2006
Moira Rayner on Janusz Korczak and the early history of children’s rights.
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INFORMATION
- Philip Mendes, Stephen Brown
- 05 June 2006
What is anti-Semitism? | The undeserving poor
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Juliette Hughes
- 31 May 2006
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Juliette Hughes looks at the impact of The Passion of the Christ.
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