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The Sydney Jewish Museum has launched a campaign today in honour of Human Rights Day, titled ‘Be A Mensch’. Mensch is a yiddish term for a person of integrity, morality and dignity, with a sense of what is right and responsible. The campaign brings this term into the 21st century by using it to encourage…

Calling for a one-state solution in Israel and Palestine is calling for a bloodbath

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in Print, The Canberra Times

Claims that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s recent statement that Israeli settlements are not, per se, inconsistent with international law has killed the two-state solution, as Crispin Hull argued on these pages last month, misrepresent both history and current day realities. There was absolutely nothing revolutionary in Pompeo’s statement. All US administrations since the Carter…

Stop the unconditional funding of UNRWA!

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in Voices

In an article written by Zionist Federation of Australian President Jeremy Leibler for The Australian in September Mr Leibler put out a strong plea that our government stop fostering hatred by continuing to provide unconditional foreign aid to UNRWA. Director of the Centre for Near East Policy Research David Bedein has devoted more than two…

Israeli aircraft hit Hamas sites in Gaza

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in Print, The Australian

Israeli aircraft have bombed several militants’ sites in Gaza, hours after three rockets were fired from the Palestinian enclave toward southern Israel. The military said in a statement the airstrikes early on Sunday targeted military camps and a naval base for Hamas, the Islamic militant group controlling Gaza. There were no immediate reports of casualties.…

Trump, Israel’s best pal in White House

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in Print, The Australian, The Canberra Times, The Daily Telegraph

President Donald Trump says Israel has never had a better friend in the White House than him because, unlike his predecessors, “I kept my promises”. Trump energised an audience that numbered in the hundreds at the Israeli American Council National Summit in Florida on Saturday by recounting his record on issues of importance to Jews,…

Angus Taylor v Naomi Wolf: it’s the great Christmas war and mutual destruction is assured

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in Print, The Age

The prize for this year’s most unlikely political poster-child goes to the nameless staffer who answered the phone in Energy Minister Angus Taylor’s office, only to find himself in a long and circular conversation with famous feminist author Naomi Wolf about her love for Christmas. This is not a sentence it would have been possible to imagine…

‘Bringing history to life’ through rare Holocaust artefacts

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in Print, Sydney Morning Herald

No one knows who owned the shoe, the hairbrush or the make-up compact. They were found in Auschwitz at the end of the war, when the world was only beginning to understand the horrors that unfolded in Hitler’s concentration camps. But in their ordinariness, they tell the story of an extraordinary period of human history,…

US and Iran make rare prisoner swap deal

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in Other Print, Print

The United States and Iran have each freed a prisoner in a rare act of co-operation between two longtime foes whose ties have worsened since President Donald Trump took office. Iran released Xiyue Wang, a US citizen who had been held for three years on spying charges, while the US freed Iranian Massoud Soleimani. He…

Iran frees American student held since 2016 on spying charges in prisoner swap for scientist held by the US

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in Print, The Advertiser

A US university student detained in Iran for three years has been freed under a prisoner exchange swap brokered by the Swiss government. A Princeton student detained in Iran for three years on spying charges has been freed in a prisoner swap deal that saw an imprisoned Iranian scientist released by Washington. US President Donald…

Closing out the parliamentary year: Did Taylor cry Wolf?

Dec 7, 2019

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