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Abbas postpones first Palestinian elections in 16 years
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said on Friday that elections had been postponed until there was a guarantee voting can take place in East Jerusalem, further delaying polls in a society which last voted in 2006. Addressing a meeting of Palestinian factions, Mr Abbas said he had urged the international community to push Israel to allow…
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Afghanistan’s last Jew eyes exit ahead of Taliban return
For decades, Zebulon Simentov refused to leave Afghanistan — surviving a Soviet invasion, deadly civil war, brutal rule by the Taliban and the US-led occupation of his homeland. But enough is enough for Afghanistan’s last Jew, and the prospect of the Taliban’s return has him preparing to say goodbye. “I’m the last, the only Jew…
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New laws needed to fight terror, says ASIO boss Mike Burgess
Displaying Nazi or Islamic State flags and possessing terrorist manifestos would be outlawed under new powers being sought by the Australian Federal Police to combat violent extremism. AFP Deputy Commissioner Ian McCartney told the parliament’s intelligence and security committee legislative changes were needed to prevent early-stage planning of terrorist attacks, the radicalisation of new and…
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HRW report on Israeli apartheid comes at a pivotal moment
In March, when the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced that it would be investigating alleged war crimes by Israelis and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank since June 2014, the Biden administration moved swiftly to condemn scrutiny of its main Middle Eastern ally. But State Department spokesman Ned Price’s press conference illustrated the void…
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Iran, US warships in tense Gulf encounter
American and Iranian warships had a tense encounter in the Persian Gulf earlier this month, the first such incident in about a year amid wider turmoil in the region over Tehran’s tattered nuclear deal, the US Navy says. Footage released by the Navy showed a ship commanded by Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard cut in front…
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‘Grave abuses’: Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of apartheid
Human Rights Watch has accused Israel of apartheid and persecution against Palestinians as a report finds the country has crossed a vital threshold and is privileging one group of people at the expense of another and carrying out inhumane acts. Both apartheid and persecution are deemed crimes against humanity under international law. Human Rights Watch…
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Post licensees ties to racist party probed
A group representing post office licensees has defended links to a fringe political party accused of racism, anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories. Licensed Post Office Group copped bipartisan criticism at a Senate hearing on Tuesday over links to the Australian Citizens Party. LPO Group executive director Angela Cramp said it was great to receive support from…
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French protest ruling that antisemitic killer cannot be tried
Paris: Protesters across France have denounced a ruling by France’s highest court that the killer of Jewish woman Sarah Halimi was not criminally responsible and therefore could not go on trial. Thousands of people filled Trocadero Plaza in Paris, in front of the Eiffel Tower, on Sunday answering a call by Jewish associations and groups fighting…
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Review: MTC Berlin demands some skin in the game
Treading on the heels of Hannah Moscovitch’s Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes in the Southbank Theatre, Joanna Murray-Smith’s Berlin makes a fascinating contrast with Moscovitch’s 2007 play, East of Berlin, in which a teenager in Paraguay in the early 1960s discovers that his father (who owns a South American pharmaceutical company) was an SS…
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Neo-Nazis make submission to Parliamentary inquiry into extremism
Far-right groups claim they have attempted to make public submissions to a Parliamentary inquiry set up to explore the threat posed by extremist movements. The groups claim their input has been rejected by federal politicians, prompting a rare explanation from the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) that it is still closely considering…