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Medics work to identify 45 people killed in Israeli stampede
Mount Meron: Medical teams are working to identify 45 people crushed to death in a stampede at a religious festival on the slopes of Israel’s Mount Meron, with children among the dead. Witnesses spoke of seeing a “pyramid” of people who were asphyxiated or trampled in a passageway around three metres wide at the crowded event in…
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Tribal identity politics undermines our bedrock values
Scott Morrison rightfully espouses that “human dignity” constitutes the most inviolable tenet of the Judaeo-Christian tradition. But to attack so-called “identity politics” (“Don’t give in to identity politics, Scott Morrison urges”, 30/4) as somehow abrogating the necessity to view “people as individuals with agency and responsibility”, Morrison completely mischaracterises the linkage been social justice and…
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Israel religious festival crush kills 45
At least 45 people have been crushed to death at an over-crowded religious festival in Israel, with attendees describing scenes of chaos in which others died in front of their eyes. More than 100 people were injured in the chaos where tens of thousands thronged to the Galilee tomb of second-century sage Rabbi Shim Bar…
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Morrison critiques ‘cancel culture’ in speech to Jewish group
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has again struck out at modern-day cancel culture and identity politics, saying people should instead seek the “inherent dignity of all human beings”. He made the comments during a speech at a United Israel function in Sydney on Thursday night on faith and community, referencing Australia’s Judeo-Christian heritage. “Seeing the inherent…
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Israeli religious festival stampede leaves dozens dead
Jerusalem: At least 44 people were crushed to death and 150 injured at an over-crowded religious bonfire festival in Israel on Friday, in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as a “heavy disaster”. The crush occurred as tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews thronged to the tomb of 2nd-century sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai on Mount…
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Russia is astutely playing the players in Yemen
Since February, US President Joe Biden’s administration has clearly communicated its approach to the war in Yemen, and its policies exhibit almost complete continuity with its predecessor in practice despite some rhetorical differences regarding Iran. This approach can be boiled down to prioritising narrow counterterrorism missions and humanitarian aid while pursuing multilateral, United Nations–led diplomacy…
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Greek neo-Nazi MEP arrested in Brussels after Parliament lifts immunity
Yannis Lagos, a former leading member of Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party was arrested in Belgium on Tuesday, hours after the European Parliament lifted his immunity, Greek police said. Legislators overwhelmingly voted to strip Greek MEP Ioannis Lagos of his immunity in a secret ballot held on Monday. The European Parliament said 658 parliamentarians voted…
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Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel gets seat at Washington National Cathedral
Washington National Cathedral, the massive Episcopal house of worship that prides itself on being an unfinished work-in-progress whose stones and stained glass tell the story of the 20th and 21st centuries, is unveiling its newest addition: a carving of iconic author, human rights campaigner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. The carving completes a quartet of…
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Israel committing ‘crime of apartheid’ against Palestinians: HRW
Human Rights Watch says Israel has “an overarching policy to maintain the domination by Jewish Israelis over Palestinians” Human Rights Watch said Tuesday that Israel is committing the crime of “apartheid” by seeking to maintain Jewish “domination” over Palestinians and its own Arab population, an allegation fiercely denounced by Israel. Israel, currently being investigated by…
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Israel’s ‘apartheid’ is a lie: a son of South African Jews responds to Human Rights Watch
As a child of South African immigrants, I’m all too familiar with apartheid’s atrocities. Black people were devalued as human beings; they were expendable. Growing up in apartheid South Africa, my parents understood how much black lives didn’t matter. Their black maids gave up years with their own families, instead raising my parents in cities…