Author: Jmedia Manager

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Several thousand Israelis have gathered in Tel Aviv to demand that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu resign following corruption charges. The protesters on Saturday waved Israeli flags and carried banners describing Netanyahu as “corrupt”. Netanyahu was indicted in a series of corruption cases last week, throwing Israel’s paralysed political system into further disarray and threatening his…

What’s wrong with this picture?

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in Print, The Australian

A young girl with an Israeli flag draped around her shoulders is being comforted by her teacher. Like her classmates crouched on the ground with their heads in their hands weeping, she is clearly distressed. They’ve just passed a lone wooden cattle car, hauntingly frozen in time on the railway track from the main gate…

‘No one wants to be the next Folau’: Christians, Muslims and Jews join to champion religious freedom

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in Print, Sydney Morning Herald

A conservative Christian group that targeted “godless” Labor seats in the federal election has joined with Muslim, Jewish and Scientologist groups to ensure no one “becomes the next Israel Folau”. The Australian Christian Alliance will hold its first religious freedom forum in western Sydney on Saturday, with key note speakers including NSW Labor MPs and…

Crackdown on advocacy charities in Germany part of global trend

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in Online, Other Source

A crackdown on advocacy charities in Germany is part of a disturbing trend happening globally, advocates have warned. Last week, one of Germany’s oldest and largest Holocaust survivors’ organisations was stripped of its charity status amid allegations it had ties to left-wing extremists. The Association of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime/Federation of Antifascists (VVN-BdA) –…

Corbyn goes into damage control as Johnson pulls ahead

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in Australian Financial Review, Print

Wrexham, Wales | Britain’s Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbyn has reportedly gone into election damage control mode, amid a growing sense that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s pledge to “get Brexit done” will see him hoover up seats in Labour’s blue-collar heartland on December 12. Media reports suggest Labour will turn its Panzers back onto those endangered seats in northern…

Opinion | Two-State Solution Should Be Discarded

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in Online, Other Source

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s announcement that the US no longer finds Israeli settlements in the West Bank “inconsistent with international law” could in the long run do more to threaten Israel as a Jewish state than to buttress it. Pompeo’s statement follows the US’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and the earlier…

The media’s Palestine problem

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in Green Left, Print

ABC’s November 25 Q&A program discussed the push by the United States to recognise illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine. Given this, you would have expected the panel to include a Palestinian. Instead, Q&A chose to ignore Palestinian voices and stacked the panel with right wingers and pro-Israeli figures. This is like having a panel on Aboriginal and Torres…

Man wearing Nazi swastika in Southland Kmart

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in Herald Sun, Print

The granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor was left hysterical after an encounter with a man with a swastika in a suburban Melbourne Kmart. Sonia, who asked her surname not be published, was shopping at Southland about 9pm yesterday with her teenage daughter when she saw the man “wearing a large red armband over his clothing with a…

Jews hear echoes of another time

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in Print, The Australian

Jeremy Corbyn rekindles dark memories of a flawed Gough Whitlam as British Jews anxious over Labour victory. According to Ephraim Mirvis, the Orthodox Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, “the overwhelming majority of British Jews” are “gripped by anxiety” at the possibility of a Labour victory. To Australians who remember the Whitlam years,…

Israel halts return of Palestinian bodies

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