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100-year-old former Nazi guard to stand trial for war crimes
Berlin: A German court has set a trial date for a 100-year-old man who is charged with 3518 counts of accessory to murder on allegations he served as a Nazi SS guard at a concentration camp on the outskirts of Berlin during World War II. A spokeswoman for the Neuruppin state court said Monday that the…
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Liberal dose of millennial struggle
Since Emma Seligman’s comedy Shiva Baby premiered at the SXSW festival in the US last year, the film has become a huge hit, screening in Toronto and at the Melbourne and Adelaide festivals. It’s a groundbreaking LGBTQ story for female Jewish millennials and is based on Seligman’s New York University thesis short film which, like…
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Burnside partner apologises for own anti-Semitic tweet
The partner of Julian Burnside has deleted and apologised for a tweet that was interpreted as being anti-Semitic and an attack on Josh Frydenberg’s ancestry, days after the QC issued an apology for his tweet comparing Israel with Nazi Germany. Kate Durham had responded to a tweet by the Treasurer by saying: “As I told you…
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Shatha’s story: celebrated abroad, brutalised in her homeland
On July 10 I awoke to a tweet that triggered a new kind of rage in me. A friend I love and admire in Palestine had been detained by brutal and merciless men, cramped into a reception room at security headquarters with other female detainees and made to watch unspeakable acts of torture against their…
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Israel blames Iran over lethal attack on oil tanker off Oman
“The attack on the MT Mercer Street is now assessed to be the fifth attack against a vessel connected to Israel,” maritime industry analysts Dryad Global said Two crew members of an oil tanker managed by a prominent Israeli businessman’s company were killed off Oman in what appears to be a drone attack, the vessel’s…
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In the US, Biden unveils picks for key religious freedom roles
The White House announced a slate of nominations and appointments for top religious affairs roles on Friday, including the first Muslim American nominated to be the US ambassador-at-large for International Religious Freedom. President Joe Biden will select Rashad Hussain as his nominee for that post, filling a State Department slot vacant since former Kansas governor…
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A Holocaust survivor’s lesson in optimism
Phillip Maisel thought he’d lost his twin sister during the war. Finding her again by sheer chance is just one of the things for which this (nearly) 99-year-old is thankful. In the spring of 1944, Phillip Maisel had reached the lowest ebb of his life. Held captive in an Estonian labour camp, the 21-year-old Polish-born…
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Greens leader Adam Bandt called to drop Julian Burnside over ‘anti-Semitic’ tweet
Greens leader Adam Bandt is being urged to distance his party from high-profile barrister Julian Burnside after the human rights advocate compared Israel to Nazi Germany. Mr Burnside, who has since deleted the Twitter post, has been condemned by a number of Jewish community organisations since The Australian reported his comments on Thursday. Jeremy Leibler,…
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Julian Burnside’s Holocaust post attracts fire – and history ‘gift’ from Josh Frydenberg
High-profile Melbourne barrister Julian Burnside says he “regrets” likening Israel to the Nazi regime in a Twitter post condemned by the Jewish community. The former Greens candidate, who once represented some of the country’s wealthiest businessmen, has since deleted the post, in which he wrote the “treatment of the Palestinians looks horribly like the German…
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Julian Burnside’s Nazi tweet the most ‘contemptible statement’ made by a Victorian Bar member
Liberal Senator Sarah Henderson says Julian Burnside’s tweet likening Israel to the Nazis is the most “contemptible statement” ever made by a senior member of the Victorian Bar. Ms Henderson has lodged a formal complaint with the Victorian Bar Council about the incident, as there are a range of barrister’s rules in place to ensure…