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Anti-semitic statue to stay in Luther’s church
The Parish Church in Wittenberg, a small town in the old East Germany, is famous for two things. One is that it was the church Martin Luther preached in, and the first church in Germany where communion with both bread and wine took place. (It is not the church where Luther nailed his 95 theses…
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Israel’s democracy: a systemic problem
Israel will go to the polls for the third time in less than a year. What makes it so hard for a clear winner to emerge? Israel has often been called the only democracy in the Middle East. This is not quite true. The Economist’s Global Democracy Index for 2019, which ranks 167 countries by five…
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Talking Point: Palestinians cop unfair media treatment as nameless, faceless as Arabs
THE great Palestinian intellectual Edward Said understood what it was to be “the other”. He could write about the idea that the Europeans see all people in the Middle East as simply Arabs. They had no identity in the way that we differentiate Germans, Italians and the English. Only Israelis are given an identity, living…
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Book reveal: Author and child holocaust survivor Diane Armstrong comes to Hornsby
Author Diane Armstrong reveals how she came to write her latest book, ‘The Collaborator’, which was inspired by a true story from WWII. Author Diane Armstrong is coming to Hornsby Library to speak about her latest book, ‘The Collaborator’. She said the story is based on an astonishing true story that took place in Budapest…
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Steal of the Century
How can any rational person applaud the fanfaronading of Trump and Netanyahu as they announce the ‘Deal of the Century’ which promises Palestinians billions of dollars if they just totally submit to Israel’s colonisation of their land and culture? It should be blatantly obvious that nothing good for Palestinians would come from these two exemplars…
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AFL youth leader helps score centre grant
Two-time AFL premiership player Bachar Houli’s goal to encourage Islamic youth leaders has earned an $850,000 federal grant for a new home. The devout Muslim and Richmond defender will lead youth programs at the Australian Islamic Centre’s new interfaith centre. It will have eight classrooms, education programs, a library and gym. “We are very, very…
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Yiddish language and culture, and its place in Australia’s history
When Hitler was defeated and the concentration camps liberated, many survivors fled as far from the scene of their suffering as they were able to go. That’s one explanation for how Melbourne, Australia, became home to the world’s largest population of Holocaust survivors outside of Israel: most of these post-war refugees were Yiddish speakers – they…
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Evolving Power Plays and Future Developments in the Middle East: Ehud Ya’ari
Key Points Among the Arab states, there continues to be a growing sense of uncertainty and weakness that is bringing increasing societal fragmentation and sectarianism. The primary strategic objective of the Iranian regime is to achieve regional hegemony and the use of proxies will continue to be a key component of that. The continued US…
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UN list targets firms linked to Israeli settlements
The UN human rights office has released a list of more than 100 companies it accused of being complicit in violating Palestinian human rights by operating in Israeli settlements in the West Bank — a first international attempt to name and shame businesses that has drawn fierce Israeli condemnation. The list’s publication after repeated delays…
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World Vision aid worker still being held in Israeli prison
Three years ago the Australian Government suspended funding to the international charity World Vision, over allegations the aid was being funnelled to Palestinian militant group Hamas. Although a government investigation found the allegations were unfounded, the man held responsible is still languishing in an Israeli Prison. Watch the episode on the 7:30 Report.