Author: Jmedia Manager
-
Unmasking an international neo-Nazi group’s Australian recruiter
Counter-terrorism investigators raided an Australian neo-Nazi cell late last year whose members include a 23-year-old tradesman acting on behalf of a violent international organisation to recruit young men to their cause. The federal police and ASIO have been investigating allegations that tradesman Matthew Golos was encouraging others to join the racist extremist group. Among them…
-
Palestine with Freedom and Equality
I read with interest the letter from Amin Abbas because of the small behind-the-scenes part I have played in what led to this story. I have met Mr Amin and his fellow Olive Kids Director Nasser Mashni along with Ron Finkel, the Founding Director of Project Rozana, the Melbourne-originated and now internationally established Not-For-Profit with similar people-to-people…
-
‘Poor choice of words’: Jeroen Weimar apologises to Jewish community
Victorian COVID-19 response commander Jeroen Weimar has apologised to Melbourne’s Jewish population after he mentioned members of the Orthodox community were among those who tested positive during a coronavirus briefing, saying it was a “poor choice of words”. Mr Weimar, while describing on Wednesday the diversity of people who had caught COVID-19 in St Kilda and surrounding…
-
NSW government protecting anti-Semitic messaging ‘very mysterious’
Australian Jewish Association President David Adler says it is “very mysterious” the NSW Government is putting up a “shield” around a contractor who posted anti-semitic comments online. A woman who is contracted by the Education Department made an anti-Semitic comment on the Australasian Union of Jewish Students’ Facebook page. The Labor opposition has called for…
-
Far-right extremists still downloading Christchurch massacre footage
Dozens of Australians are still downloading vision of the Christchurch terrorist’s attack and manifesto along with other far-right extremist material, according to a counter-terror probe. A confidential federal police online tracking project examining right wing radicalisation and peer-to-peer websites estimated that almost three quarters of the most popular extremist files shared involved abhorrent right-wing content.…
-
Misha’s incredible story of survival became an international bestseller. None of it was true.
Misha Defonseca always had an affinity with animals. Her house was full of pet cats. Several wolf-themed clocks hung on her kitchen wall and her shelves were cluttered with wolf figurines. So when she got up on stage at the Temple Beth Torah in Holliston, Massachusetts, on Holocaust Remembrance Day in 1989 or 1990 and…
-
Evidence of Nazi Brutality Uncovered in Poland’s ‘Death Valley’
New details are emerging about atrocities committed by Nazis in Poland during the onset and closing stages of the Second World War, including how they tried to destroy evidence of their crimes. Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, triggering the Second World War. The opening months of the conflict were particularly brutal, especially…
-
Chaos foreseen
As Robert Gates, former defense secretary in the Obama administration, once put it, Biden has ‘been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades’. He certainly left an impression by being the only senior person in the Obama administration to argue against the pursuit and execution of…
-
The Interview: Bruce Chilton on his new book plumbing the role the Herods had in forming early Jewish, Christian views
Few periods were as critical to the development of Judaism and Christianity as the 100 years before and after the birth of Jesus. Those were roughly the years governed by the Herods, the dynastic royal family that controlled Judea, the region surrounding Jerusalem, as well as the northern stretch once known as the kingdom of…
-
Sam Edelman shares life story from scuba diving in Israel to becoming a KFC viral sensation
Sam Edelman radiates energy. It’s the kind of energy that creates a community – it brings people together, lifts people up SAM Edelman radiates energy. It’s the kind of energy that creates a community – it brings people together, lifts people up. This entrepreneur became a worldwide viral hit, with his quest for his Alice…