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Tziporah Malkah recalls first night she met Harvey Weinstein
He is the Hollywood producer at the centre of rape and sexual assault allegations. Now Sydney socialite Tziporah Malkah recalls the first night she met disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. Tziporah Malkah has opened up about the first night she met disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, and says she is not at all surprised by…
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US warning on West Bank forces Israel to backpedal
Jerusalem: A US has envoy warned Israel not to declare sovereignty over West Bank land without Washington’s consent, pushing back against calls for immediate action by ultra-nationalists within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition. US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan, unveiled on January 28, envisages Israel keeping key swathes of the occupied territory where Palestinians…
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Israelis charting area to be annexed: Benjamin Netanyahu
Israel has begun drawing up maps of land in the West Bank that will be annexed in accordance with US President Donald Trump’s peace plan, says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “We are already at the height of the process of mapping the area that, according to the Trump plan, will become part of the state…
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Remembering the Forgotten Holocaust of February 10
This year not only marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the ending of the Second World War and the ending of the Holocaust; but did you know there were two Holocausts: one perpetrated against the Jews by Hitler and his Nazi henchmen and one perpetrated against ethnic Poles by Stalin and his…
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Bipartisan call to extradite Malka Leifer
Federal MPs from both major parties have united to call on the Israel government to immediately extradite alleged child abuser Malka Leifer to Australia. Former ambassador to Israel turned Liberal MP Dave Sharma and Labor MP Josh Burns will on Monday night move a motion in the House of Representatives hitting out at the “numerous…
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Jeff Corbett writes on the dangers of hate
Jewish people and Australia’s media have been telling us over the past few weeks that anti-Semitism is on the rise, and I find this mystifying. In the first place, I don’t understand why anyone would be hostile to Jewish people because they are Jews. Or to Italian people because they are Italian. Or English people…
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Iran locks members of minority Baha’i faith out of identity documents
The Baha’i community living in Iran is experiencing a surge in persecution following the tension between the US and Iran. History shows that, in times of national crisis in Iran, persecution of the minority religious group intensifies, Natalie Mobini, spokeswoman for the Australian Baha’i Community, said. In the past three months, Baha’is have experienced multiple…
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Israel maps planned West Bank annexations
Israel has begun drawing up maps of land in the occupied West Bank that will be annexed in accordance with US President Donald Trump’s peace plan, says the country’s leader Benjamin Netanyahu. President Netanyahu said the area would include all Israeli settlements and the Jordan Valley – territory Israel has kept under military occupation since…
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Diary of a Mature Age Student at the University of Sydney
In August of 2019 I decided to go back to the University of Sydney to study English Literature. I was overwhelmed by culture shock. In my first creative writing seminar the lecturer seemed more inclined to do ‘performance poetry’ than actually teaching us anything. It had a definite political tinge to it. She was the…
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Cannibal Holocaust was banned in the UK until 2001 – but why was the horror movie so shocking?
40 years after Cannibal Holocaust’s director was taken to court for making an alleged snuff film, is it still as shocking? On February 7, 1980, Cannibal Holocaust had its petrifying premiere in Milan. Four years later, the movie was banned in the US, Australia, Norway, Singapore, and many more countries. So startling was the Italien…