Author: Jmedia Manager
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Palestine and guerrilla memorials in the digital age
Lujayn Hourani considers the effectiveness of the game-like temporal memorial, Re: Visit Palestine, in tandem with their own personal memories In a poem published in Running Dog last month, I write about my frustration towards news cycles. I write, it is always about footage. It’s never the violence itself that outrages the masses, it’s the video evidence of it.…
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Iran under new management: what could make or break Raisi’s presidency
Ebrahim Raisi took on multiple challenges when he became Iran’s new president on 5 August. How he copes with four of them could make or break his presidency—and determine Iran’s level of stability for the foreseeable future. The four challenges are to resuscitate Iran’s economy and relieve the severe hardship affecting all citizens, to seek…
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More than half of state’s Jewish community targeted by anti-Semitism
An alarming survey indicates anti-Semitism is on the rise in Queensland, placing renewed urgency on the government’s review of the Anti-Discrimination Act. Six in 10 members of Queensland’s Jewish community say they have experienced anti-Semitism to some degree. Queensland Jewish Board of Deputies Vice President Jason Steinberg told Neil Breen anti-Semitism occurs every day in…
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Israel puts faith in booster shot as cases rise
Israel has given a booster third coronavirus vaccination to one in three of its citizens over 60 but cases and hospital admissions have continued to rise. Naftali Bennett, 49, the prime minister, said 420,000 people had received a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine by yesterday afternoon. This includes some who are younger than 60…
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3CR program about Palestine specialises in lies
On July 3rd there was an interview on the Palestine Remembered radio program with Baha Hilo, a Palestinian activist, who was a guest on that program to talk ostensibily about the murder of Nizat Banat by the Palestinian Authority, a hugely significant event in the Palestinian arena, which has not been covered anywhere by our…
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Israel’s Ashram claims individual gym gold
Israel’s Linoy Ashram has won the individual all-around rhythmic gymnastics gold medal, breaking a Russian stranglehold on the Olympic title that stretched back to 2000. An Olympic medal event since 1984, rhythmic gymnastics sees athletes perform exquisite contortions and manoeuvres to music while using hoops, balls, clubs or ribbons. Ashram top-scored in the first three…
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Brown Study
It was very odd that last week, when all the nightclubs and gin palaces of Melbourne were closed, a new dance was being invented and released on an unsuspecting public. Christened the Burnside two-step, it has so many intricate moves that it could be mistaken for a stately 18th century minuet. But it also has…
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Can Iran’s ‘butcher’ president make peace with the Saudis?
It’s official: after eight years of a relatively pragmatic administration, Iran is now under new management. Ebrahim Raisi, a disciple of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the former judiciary chief, was inaugurated this week as Iran’s next president. Clad in a white shirt, black robe and thin-framed glasses, Raisi accepted a task that will…
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An eerie Nazi time capsule containing brass knuckles, gas masks, and a portrait of Hitler uncovered in German floods clean up
A man who cleaned his aunt’s house following the German floods found a trove of hidden Nazi artifacts. It included a gun, brass knuckles, and a portrait of Hitler behind a plastered wall. Experts excavating the home have since collected 12 boxes of artifacts. A German man who was cleaning a house after it was…
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Musicologist hopes to reconstruct 12-century organ from Bethlehem church that survived crusades
FROZEN in time, like a “musical Pompeii,” the 221 remaining original organ pipes from the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem may fill a gap of knowledge of more than three centuries in the history of the organ and its cultural context, medieval church culture, music and technology. “This organ dates from the 12th century…