Author: Jmedia Manager

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Ben Hillier looks at some of the similarities and differences between Zionist oppression in Palestine and Sinhala-Buddhist supremacy in Sri Lanka. The ubiquitous star of David across historic Palestine—on the uniforms of occupying soldiers, on checkpoints and military vehicles, on banners waved by fascist mobs chanting “death to Arabs”, on the lapel pins of politicians…

Jerusalem’s lesson: why we shouldn’t mistake ‘quiet’ for peace

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in Print, Sydney Morning Herald

The Israeli foreign ministry has described what is happening in Sheikh Jarrah as a real estate dispute. Four Palestinian households are facing immediate eviction (there are at least 27 families in similar battles) to make way for the right-wing settler group Lahav Shomron, which acquired the land from Jewish trusts that bought it in the…

Tales of Jewish resistance rescued from history’s amnesia

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in Print, Sydney Morning Herald

There is a persistent myth that European Jewry meekly acquiesced in their own annihilation during World War II. That iconic photograph of a Warsaw ghetto boy surrendering with his arms raised is remembered more than the context: the heroic but doomed ghetto uprising of April-May 1943. The misconception that Jews were submissive or compliant was…

US faith, political leaders unite in rally against anti-Semitism

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in Online, Other Communities

Faith leaders, celebrities and lawmakers across the political spectrum in the US joined Thursday to condemn a rise in anti-Semitic incidents around the world triggered by the recent conflict between Israel and Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers. Organised by leading US Jewish groups, the virtual Day of Action Against Antisemitism included calls for policy changes and…

Israelis blast UN probe on violence

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in Print, The Australian

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denounced as “shameful” a decision by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate abuses in the Palestinian territories and inside Israel, while Palestinians welcomed the move. “Today’s shameful decision is yet another example of the UN Human Rights Council’s blatant anti-Israel obsession,” Mr Netanyahu said on Friday AEST. The…

Israel targeted in another leftist Q+A stack

May 29, 2021

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in Media Watch, Print, The Australian

There was a time not so long ago when the ABC Q+A program pretended that it had live audiences that were politically balanced. This was achieved by asking those attending the live broadcast, usually held at the ABC Soviet in Sydney’s inner-city Ultimo, to nominate which political party they supported. This invariably resulted in a…

The Holocaust is not a feel-good story

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in Print, The Australian

Of the approximately six million Jews murdered by the Nazis during World War II, the vast majority – men women and children – went to their deaths with hardly any resistance. They went, in the terrible phrase coined by the Vilna Ghetto resistance leader and partisan Abba Kovner, like sheep to the slaughter. In the…

The empire that sprang from nowhere under the banner of Islam

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in Print, Spectator

When the British formed the basis of their empire in the 1600s by acquiring territories in India and North America, they already had many centuries’ experience of foreign involvement. One of the most remarkable aspects of the force that reshaped Eurasia 1,000 years earlier is that there was no prelude: the Arab conquests, and the…

Jerusalem: A Flashpoint for Conflict or Microcosm of Peace?

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in Online, Other Source

Regardless of how the current and future violent conflicts between Israel and the Palestinians in Jerusalem will end, there will be no Israeli-Palestinian peace unless East Jerusalem becomes the capital of a Palestinian state while the city remains united. Thus, a long-term solution is necessary to ensure that Jerusalem does not continue to be a…

‘Je suis Cohen’, anybody?

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