Author: Jmedia Manager
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Iraqi protesters attack Iran consulate in Karbala
Baghdad: Dozens of Iraqi protesters attacked the Iranian consulate in the Shiite holy city of Karbala on Sunday, scaling the concrete barriers ringing the building, bringing down an Iranian flag and replacing it with the Iraqi flag, eyewitnesses said. Security forces fired in the air to disperse the protesters who threw stones and burned tires around…
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Right-wing extremists use Minecraft, Grand Theft Auto to ‘recreate’ Holocaust, Christchurch attacks, offer mass shooting ‘tips’
Right-wing extremists are using online gaming forums including those with Australian members to make sick posts lauding Christchurch mosque mass murderer Brenton Tarrant as a “hero” and giving vile tips for carrying out mass shootings. A special investigation by The West can reveal white supremacists have even created a private world on kids’ game Minecraft…
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No Israeli govt involvement in alleged NSO-WhatsApp hack – minister
The Israeli government on Friday denied any involvement in an alleged cyber- hack by Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group. Distancing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government from the alleged attempts to send malware to the mobile devices of a number of Whatsapp users, Israeli security cabinet minister Zeev Elkin said that if anyone had done anything…
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Iran unveils anti-US murals on old embassy
Iran has unveiled new murals at the former US embassy in Tehran ahead of the 40th anniversary of the seizure of the mission by hardline Islamist students, depicting what state media say is Washington’s weakened power. Iran is due to mark the takeover of what it calls the “den of spies” after the 1979 Islamic…
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Brisbane Cycles for Solidarity: The 2019 Big Ride for Palestine
Early on the morning of Saturday 31st August, twenty-three cyclists and their support crew came together in South Brisbane for the third annual Big Ride for Palestine! The night before, the riders and supporters had been treated to a concert of the Palestinian American poet, Remi Kanazi, Brisbane-based Lebanese musician, Phil Monsour, and the Al Zayton Palestinian Dabke Troupe,…
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Farming for Palestinian Resilience
In Palestine, small-hold farmers are overcoming barriers to selling their produce on the market. With the support of Union Aid Abroad – APHEDA, farming communities in Gaza and Jenin, the West Bank, are improving land-care techniques and agricultural infrastructure to boost their yields. Now the project has been awarded renewed funding from the Department of Foreign Affairs…
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Banality blights
Heather Morris’s debut novel was a runaway success when it came out in January 2018. The Melbourne-based New Zealand writer wrote The Tattooist of Auschwitz after meeting and befriending the man, Lali Solokov, on whose story the book is based. It’s a love story: Solokov met his wife, Gita Furman, and fell for her, when,…
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Consensus on religious freedom laws is proving elusive
The Morrison government’s controversial proposed religious freedom laws appear on the surface to be straightforward. The bill aims to protect a person from charges of discrimination when making a statement of belief. A statement of belief is defined as being of a religious nature, expressed in good faith and of a view that “may reasonably…
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Here I am: the triumph of survival
On a sunny morning in Prague’s Old Jewish Quarter, Juliet Rieden stumbles across a cluster of names on a wall. All share her own unusual surname. The list is inscribed on a memorial to Czechs murdered in the Holocaust: Emil Rieden, Berta Rieden, Felix Rieden, Otto Rieden. She stares, confused. Who are these people? Growing…
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Principal Who Said He Couldn’t Confirm The Holocaust Was Real Is Fired
William Latson defended Holocaust deniers in an email to a parent who was inquiring about his Florida school’s World War II curriculum. A Florida principal who told a parent that he couldn’t say that the Holocaust happened has been fired, four months after his comments drew national outcry. William Latson of Boca Raton’s Spanish River Community High…