Author: Jmedia Manager
-
Arrested Palestinian Authority critic dies
Hundreds of Palestinians have showed their anger on the streets of Ramallah in the West Bank after a prominent critic of the Palestinian Authority died while being arrested. Nizar Banat’s health apparently deteriorated during the operation by Palestinian security forces at his residence in Dura and he was subsequently pronounced dead at a hospital in…
-
Left’s hypocrisy exposed in response to Iran’s new leader Raisi
In a perverse parody of democracy, Iran last week elected a mass murderer and extreme hardliner, Ebrahim Raisi, as its new president. Two elements of the reaction to it tell us a good deal about the doleful state of Western political culture today. First, it did not create the slightest stumbling block for the Biden…
-
The Girl Who Fled The Nazis And Revolutionized Computing
In the early 1960s, the tech industry scoffed at them. They were called from The Times newspaper the “computer girls”, and no one took seriously the group of women programmers who, under the leadership of mathematician Stephanie Shirley and her company Freelance Programmers, revolutionized the world of business with a radical culture. different and, against…
-
China panic: what can be done about anti-Chinese racism?
The work of combatting Sinophobia must be combined with a critique of Australian foreign policies. There’s a principle here that needs defending: criticising the CCP for its policies is not, in and of itself, racist. The idea that criticism of the Chinese government is in any way inherently “anti-Chinese” has to be dismissed. I have…
-
US seizes Iranian state news websites
US Justice Department said Wednesday it had seized 33 Iranian government-controlled media websites, as well as three of the Iraqi group Kataeb Hezbollah, which it said were hosted on US-owned domains in violation of sanctions. Visitors to leading Iranian media sites like Press TV and Al-Alam, the country’s main English language and Arabic language broadcasters,…
-
Iran-linked news websites ‘seized by US’
Notices have appeared on a number of Iran-affiliated websites saying they had been seized by the United States government as part of law enforcement action. Iranian news agencies said that the US government had seized several Iranian media websites and sites belonging to groups affiliated with Iran such as Yemen’s Houthi movement. The website of…
-
Aussie Language
A report in the Australian said ‘anti-Semitic’ hate crimes are on the rise in America – and the FBI and the NYPD are launching new community outreach programs and patrols in affected neighbourhoods. They say recent conflict in the Middle East saw a 77 per cent increase in anti-Semitic hate crimes. The term ‘anti-Semitism’ was coined…
-
Covid-19 cases surging in Israel, particularly in young people
The world’s most vaccinated country had returned to life as normal, but Covid-19 has arrived again with a terrifying new trend. The most vaccinated country in the world is experiencing a new spike in coronavirus cases thanks to the fastest spreading variant detected so far. Israel on Monday recorded 125 new cases of Covid-19, a…
-
Introducing Iran’s president-elect
As was widely predicted, Ebrahim Raisi, a hardline conservative, won last Friday’s Iranian presidential election in a landslide and will succeed Hassan Rouhani as president in August. However, the historically low turnout of voters and highest ever informal vote clearly demonstrated Raisi’s low public appeal and serious disillusionment with the regime’s policies. Although the Guardian Council…
-
Media Statement: ECAJ meeting with ABC Managing Director
The ABC’s coverage of Israel – in particular, its highly controversial Q + A program which focused on the recent Israel-Hamas war – was the subject of a high-level meeting between the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) and the ABC leadership at ABC headquarters in Sydney on Monday, 21 June 2021. It was attended…