Author: Jmedia Manager
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Israel fires missiles into Syria: reports
Beirut: Syrian air defences have opened fire on missiles fired from inside Israel, according to Syrian state media. Syrian state TV gave no further details but residents of Damascus said explosions could be heard near the capital on Sunday night (Monday morning Australian time). The station said one of the Israeli missiles has been shot down…
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Israel reverses ban, says Gaza Christians can visit Christmas sites
Jerusalem: Christians in the Gaza Strip will be allowed to visit holy cities such as Bethlehem and Jerusalem at Christmas, Israel authorities said on Sunday, reversing a decision not to issue them permits. Israel tightly restricts movements out of the Gaza Strip, territory controlled by Hamas, an Islamist group that it considers a terrorist organisation.…
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Australian students interviewed over alleged assault in Israel
Israeli police are investigating the alleged assault of an Australian student while on a high school trip overseas. The student was in Israel as part of a six-week overseas study program when she was allegedly assaulted by a fellow pupil. The excursion included students from at least two Australian Jewish campuses, including Melbourne’s Bialik College.…
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Democrats can’t hold a candle to Trump in fight on anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitism is on the rise in the US, but the response from America’s Jews has been confused. Donald Trump is the first president to confront anti-Semitism by recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and by extending civil-rights protection to Jewish college students in the US. Yet some Jews and Jewish organisations condemn him as an anti-Semite…
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Top Jewish body wants more power for religious hospitals, aged care homes in discrimination bill
The country’s top Jewish body has warned draft religious freedom laws could restrict the power of religious hospitals, aged care facilities and housing providers to give preference to people of their own faith when admitting patients or choosing board members. In the latest call for the laws to give more power to religious bodies, the…
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Lunch with peace negotiator Tal Becker, an Australian on the frontline
Lunch begins, appropriately enough, with a negotiation. Ever since he graduated from Monash University nearly 30 years ago Dr Tal Becker has spent his life alongside lawyers and soldiers, diplomats and politicians, activists and experts, locked in negotiations over how peace between Israel and Palestine might be secured; over how both peoples might achieve and…
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Iran urges Muslims to fight US ‘hegemony’
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has urged Muslim nations to deepen financial and trade cooperation to fight what he described as US economic hegemony. He used an Islamic conference in Malaysia on Thursday as a platform to decry American sanctions against his country. Rouhani repeated his assertion that the US has used economic sanctions as the…
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In Passing: Piero Terracina, Christine Chambers and Anna Karina
Piero Terracina was 15 years old in 1944 when two SS soldiers entered the home in Rome where he and his parents, his grandfather, his two brothers and sister and an uncle had gathered to celebrate Passover. They were deported to Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp in Poland, where only Mr Terracina emerged alive. After maintaining…
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Civil rights group calls on Paypal, credit card companies to remove services from Offensive Crayons
A leading civil rights organisation is urging customers to boycott an offensive crayon set that aims to shock with the names of its colours, including references to the Holocaust and miscarriages. But the business at the centre of the furore has defended the product. THE Anti-Defamation Commission — the group behind the push to remove a…
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The post-American Middle East
It was 5 August 1990, just days after Saddam Hussein’s Iraq had invaded and conquered all of Kuwait, and US President George H.W. Bush could not have been clearer as he spoke from the South Lawn at the White House: ‘This will not stand, this aggression against Kuwait.’ Over the next six months, Bush proved to be…