Author: Jmedia Manager
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Uncovering the plans of Australian white supremacists
ON WEDNESDAY, neo-Nazi groups were raided in Adelaide. Two people were arrested — one for possessing an IED and the other for possessing “extremist material”. More raids followed in Queensland. The leader of White supremacist groups European Australian Movement (EAM) and National Socialist Network (NSN), Tom Sewell, took to Telegram to say that the Adelaide arrests were of members of an ‘unaffiliated group’ and…
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Playwright Joanna Murray-Smith
Joanna Murray-Smith is indisputably one of Australia’s international theatre stars. I knew someone who compared her to the Duchesse de Guermantes in Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time: a figure of fugitive but irrevocable glamour. Her résumé as a dramatist includes productions of her feminist comedy The Female of the Species in Los Angeles starring Annette Bening…
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MGC Pharmaceuticals sees strong market outlook as global phytocannabinoid market gains traction
MGC Pharma has commenced clinical trials for three of its key Phytomedicine products CannEpil®, CogniCann® and CimetrA™. Phase IIb clinical trial is being conducted at the Schindler Hospital in Israel on the safety and efficacy of CannEpil® as an add-on treatment in children and adolescents with refractory epilepsy. The expected time to marketing authorisation is…
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Israel to tell ICC it does not recognise court’s authority
Israel will tell the International Criminal Court it does not recognise the authority of the tribunal, which is planning to investigate possible war crimes in the Palestinian territories, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday. Netanyahu, after meeting with senior ministers and government officials ahead of a Friday deadline to respond to an ICC notification…
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Anti-Semitism and the far left
The comic David Baddiel has written a book which explains that much of the far left hates Jews. There are exceptions. They are OK with dead Jews (the Holocaust gets a sad face emoji if it isn’t ‘exploited’ by living Jews, in which case it gets an angry face emoji), and penitent Jews (the ones…
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Accused and inescapable, Benjamin Netanyahu has long defined Israel
On March 23 Israelis went to the polls to elect a new parliament. The country’s 6.4 million voters are treated as a single constituency, with each individual voting for a pre-determined party list in a system of proportional representation. Once the members of the single chamber of parliament (known as the Knesset) are established, it…
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Iran frees South Korean ship it held in dispute over frozen billions
Dubai: A South Korean oil tanker held for months by Iran amid a dispute over billions of dollars seized by Seoul was freed early on Friday, just hours ahead of further talks between Tehran and world powers over its tattered nuclear deal. MarineTraffic.com data showed the MT Hankuk Chemi leaving Bandar Abbas in the early morning…
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In Israel, vaccine passports are already redundant
Vaccine passports are already redundant in Israel The vaccination centre where I got my jabs was in the cavernous foyer of the Jerusalem Arena, Israel’s largest indoor sports venue. Through the locked glass doors, I could see the seats where my 15-year-old and I spent so many hours cheering on our basketball team. Putting my…
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US resumes Palestinian refugee funding
The Biden administration has announced a resumption of US assistance to the Palestinians, including to the UN agency that deals with Palestinian refugees, nearly all of which had been eliminated under President Donald Trump. The State Department said it would provide a total of $US235 million ($A308 million) to projects in the West Bank and…
