Author: Jmedia Manager
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Britain joins fight to save jailed Aussie academic Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert
Britain is stepping up pressure on Iran for the release of Australian academic Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert, saying it was “unacceptable and outrageous” that she is languishing in a notorious Tehran jail. The University of Melbourne Islamic Studies expert has been sentenced to 10 years’ jail on spying charges, which she has strongly denied. She remains…
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Labour fuels record rise in British anti-Semitic incidents
Reported anti-Semitic incidents in Britain hit record levels in 2019, with more than a 10th of the 1805 complaints “related to the Labour Party”, a charity tracking the issue says. The Community Security Trust, which offers support to Jewish people in Britain, said the figure represented a 7 per cent jump on the number reported…
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In the age of outrage, it’s all a matter of perception
In an age of social media, when facts and interpretation are often melded into the same narrative, the result can become a nasty mixture, as Gerry Riviere, a chaplain at a Baptist school in Melbourne, has found. Riviere had to apologise for his remarks in a Christmas school newsletter about the role of the Jewish elders…
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I thank God I’m an atheist
If only the “once upon a time” of religious belief led to more “happily ever after”. If only the fairy stories of faith led to harmony instead of hatred. But for millennia the promises of love and harmony have been broken. It is a simple fact, on constant display in Australia, that the great political…
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A Hidden Life
How do you represent historical evil, and is it ever possible to do it through fiction? No series of events has seen that question more seriously critiqued and interrogated than when it comes to filmic representation of Nazi atrocities and, in particular, the Holocaust. Many intellectuals, from the German refugee Theodor Adorno to the Australian…
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Palestinian, US in violence blame game
Palestinian and US leaders have blamed each other for a surge of violence as mourners gathered in the occupied West Bank for the funeral of a Palestinian police officer shot dead during unrest, and Israel has tightened security before Friday Muslim prayers. Tension were high a day after two Palestinians were killed and 16 Israelis…
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Israeli troops rammed, Palestinian killed
A car has run down a group of Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem in a suspected Palestinian attack and, in a separate incident, Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian during clashes in the occupied West Bank. Long-simmering Palestinian unrest has been stoked anew by anger at US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan, which was…
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Two Palestinians killed in violence
At least two Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank and 16 Israelis hurt in a surge of violence that erupted amid Palestinian anger at a US peace plan. In Jerusalem, an Arab citizen of Israel was killed after he shot and slightly wounded an Israeli paramilitary border policeman at an entrance to…
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Trump plan ratifies Israel as an apartheid state
Critics of Trump’s Middle East “Peace Plan” in the capitalist media claim he has given Israel everything it wants. Trump says he is just being realistic, recognising the reality on the ground. Trump is correct — he has given Israel nothing it did not already have, except United States official recognition and approval of that…
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Drowning Benjamin Netanyahu pulls Israel under
The achievements of Benjamin Netanyahu across his political career have been considerable. He deserves substantial credit for the flourishing of Israel into the high-technology powerhouse it is today. When Netanyahu first became prime minister, in 1996, he inherited an economy hobbled by onerous taxation and bloated regulatory policies that were the socialist legacy of the…