Author: Jmedia Manager

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As a boy, Norman Swirsky was raised in genteel poverty in a Jewish family living in Glasgow. When he was 10 years old his dad decided to change the family’s surname to Swan in a response to ongoing anti-Semitism in Scotland after WWII. Norman wanted to be an actor growing up, but his parents encouraged…

To kill all Jews? No…

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in Letters

With respect to Wakil and Macklin (Letters, 21 July) the assertion that the Palestinian resistance wants to kill all Jews in the world is wholly untrue. Hamas was voted into power on their manifesto of seeking a solution based on the ’67 lines and has repeatedly offered Israel truces, which Israel has rejected. The aggressor (Israel) is always the…

Why Israel is rolling out a third Covid jab

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in Print, Spectator

Israel has today become the first country in the world to offer a third Covid-19 booster vaccine on a large scale. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced that Israel will vaccinate all people over the age of 60 again, with the new Israeli President, Isaac Herzog, and his wife, the first people to receive their third…

Israel offers third booster shot to older citizens

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in Australian Financial Review, Print

Jerusalem | Israel’s Prime Minister on Thursday (Friday AEST) announced that the country would offer a coronavirus booster to people over 60 who had already been vaccinated. The announcement by Naftali Bennett makes Israel, which launched one of the world’s most successful vaccination drives earlier this year, the first country to offer a third dose of a…

‘Suicide drone’ used to attack ship tied to Israeli billionaire, killing crew members

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in Print, Sydney Morning Herald

Dubai: An attack on an oil tanker linked to an Israeli billionaire killed two crew members off Oman in the Arabian Sea, authorities said, marking the first fatalities after years of assaults targeting shipping in the region. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the Thursday night raid on the Liberian-flagged tanker Mercer Street. However, a US…

Greens leader Adam Bandt distances party from Burnside tweet

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in Print, Sydney Morning Herald

Greens leader Adam Bandt has moved to distance his party from a comment by former high-profile candidate Julian Burnside likening Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to Nazi Germany, which drew a fierce backlash from the Jewish community. Several leading Jewish figures accused the prominent Melbourne barrister of anti-Semitism and breaking his promise to Holocaust survivors…

Greens leader Adam Bandt keeps the party away from Julian Burnside’s tweets

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in Online, Other Source

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, to which Australia is a member, provides 11 examples in the definition of what constitutes anti-Semitism, such as “drawing a comparison between modern Israeli and Nazi policies.” Dr. Dvir Abramovich, chairman of the Anti-Semitic Commission, was “extremely disappointed” that he did not directly condemn “the sarcastic exploitation of the Holocaust,”…

Odiousness comparisons in 280 characters or less

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in Print, The Australian

It is a familiar fact that some of the best educated in our midst also sometimes seem the most unwise. Take Melbourne barrister Julian Burnside QC, for example. He voted for the Liberal Party up to and including John Howard’s victory over Labor’s Paul Keating in March 1996. Burnside then gradually moved to the left…

Barrister Julian Burnside likened Israelis to Nazis

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in Print, The Australian

Jewish figures have accused Julian Burnside of anti-Semitism and breaking a promise to Holocaust survivors after the prominent human rights barrister took to social media to equate Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to Nazi Germany. Mr Burnside, who once represented Alan Bond and Rose Porteous but has more recently taken up various human rights causes,…

UN discrimination against Jews traps Unilever and J Street

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