Author: Jmedia Manager
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How to prevent another Gaza conflict
The Israel–Hamas conflagration of 10–21 May, the fourth such conflict since 2008, has been over for almost two months. Diplomatic drama and manoeuvrings continue in its aftermath: incendiary balloon attacks from Gaza sparking Israeli retaliation, ceasefire talks mediated by Cairo including discussion of possible prisoner exchanges, intra-Palestinian unrest, and ongoing negotiations on arrangements for international…
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ECAJ hosts meeting between Federal Opposition leader Anthony Albanese and national Jewish community leadership
Federal Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has denounced the use of the apartheid analogy to demonise Israel. “The use of terms like apartheid not only is not appropriate to describe the Israeli political system and structure, it also cheapens the struggle against apartheid that occurred in South Africa led by Mandela and others. It’s a dangerous…
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Your ABC’s complaints process might surprise you
The ABC, with its multi-platform presence across television and radio stations and the internet, is our nation’s most prominent source of news and current affairs. Being taxpayer-funded, it has a code of practice which prescribes required standards of journalistic professionalism, under self-explanatory headings such as “accuracy” and “impartiality”. Anyone who feels the ABC has breached…
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Swastika on Israel flag ‘well outside’ intellectual freedom
A sacked academic who displayed a slide of a Nazi swastika superimposed on the Israel flag during a lecture has been accused of behaving “well outside” the remit of intellectual freedom and breaching his employment conditions. Tim Anderson, a political economy lecturer at the University of Sydney, lost his job in 2019 after a series…
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Israel gov’t confiscates $7.7 million crypto allegedly owned by a terrorist group
The Israeli government has recently seized 84 crypto addresses allegedly linked to the terrorist organization Hamas. According to the country’s intelligence, the wallets that have been seized have received more than $7.7 million in cryptocurrencies. With this discovery, it clearly suggests that terrorists are already using crypto to transfer ill-gotten money to further evade the surveillance of…
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Canberra capers, Australia and East Timor’s long history and the Jewish commandos of X-Troop
Laura Tingle reports on the latest on Canberra’s COVID strategy, Peter Job on our long and complicated relationship with East Timor and Leah Garrett tells the remarkable story of the Jewish commandos that formed X-Troop during WW2. Listen to the episode of Late Night Live with Phillip Adams.
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The ABC’s anti-Israeli bias has become ‘activism’
Journalists are becoming activists by picking a side in Israeli-Palestinian conflicts, according to Sky News Digital Editor Jack Houghton. Mr Houghton said the ABC should not have rejected a complaint by the Australia Israel and Jewish Affairs Council about a QandA episode in May concerning the recent conflict between Israeli forces and Hamas insurgents. “Four…
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Israelis blow up home of US citizen suspected of killing student
Israel’s army said on Thursday it had demolished the home of a Palestinian man with US citizenship accused of fatally shooting a Jewish student in the West Bank. The move was denounced by the US, which said the punitive demolitions of Palestinian homes “exacerbate tensions and undercut efforts to advance a negotiated two-state solution”. An…
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Why does the ‘woke left’ tolerate anti-Semitism?
Towards the end of May, one London-based Jewish academic colleague told me: “When you hear a group of demonstrators chanting ‘Death to the Jews’ you feel scared. But when you see that the people around them take no notice and don’t react to their vile outburst of anti-Semitism you feel alarmed and alone.” There has…
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Calls for Apple, Google to pull ‘degrading Hitler game’
Australian Jewish groups are calling on tech giants Apple and Google to pull a mobile phone game from their online stores that lets players decide whether Adolf Hitler should go to heaven or hell after the game was downloaded at least a million times. Anti-Defamation Commission Chairman Dvir Abramovich said Judgement Day: Heaven or Hell was…