Here’s the deal. Zionist Labor MP Michael Danby – an elected politician who seems to love Israel like a beautiful woman and challenge anybody who dares damn Zionist ideology – has complained about an ABC TV program that raised the recent Gaza war. War crimes were committed, but Danby and his media mates won’t tolerate…
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Australian Jews slam Gaza invasion as ”˜abominable’
The following article, in the leading global Jewish news service JTA, appeared yesterday: An Australian Jewish group slammed Israel’s invasion of Gaza as “inhuman,” “superfluous,” and “abominable.” Independent Australian Jewish Voices, an off-shoot of the British group founded in February 2007, said in a statement this week that while Israel has the right to self-defense,…
Time to honestly debate Israel/Palestine
My following post was written for Khaldoun, the blog recently started by Macquarie University’s Centre for Middle East and North African Studies, where I’m a board member: Robustly debating Zionism has existed for as long as its existence. Jews, historically a persecuted people, were unafraid to discuss the merits or otherwise of the plan to…
But, why, how dare you challenge Israel?
Zionist anger is a wonderful thing to watch. After I recently wrote an article for Crikey that dared to suggest that Israel’s behaviour in Palestine was outrageous, Douglas Kirsner, chair of the Public Affairs Committee of the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission, chimed in and defended his wonderful homeland and said it was wrong that anybody…
Courting the Jewish vote
My following article appears in today’s edition of Crikey: The fight for the Federal seat of Wentworth is between the self-appointed, Honorary Jew (Malcolm Turnbull) and the proudly Zionist, True Jew (George Newhouse.) Pitching directly at a recent Jewish Labor Forum, Newhouse told the assembled crowd that, “Malcolm’s recent discovery of the Yiddish vernacular is…
Boredom by 1000 cuts continues
The “controversy” over my recent appearance on ABC TV continues along its parochial way. Today’s Australian newspaper reports: The ABC has buckled to concerns of bias made by a federal parliamentarian. But the gripes have come from a Labor member, Melbourne Ports’ Michael Danby, not the Government that pushed for the appointment of a…
The same, tired story is back again
Just when I thought I could leave Australia and the Australian Jewish News (AJN) would find something else vitally important to write about, here’s this week’s page one “story”: Inter-Faith activists and Jewish community leaders have critisised comments by Independent Australian Jewish Voices co-founder Antony Loewenstein that Australian Jews are anti-Muslim. Loewenstein, author of My…
Parochialism, courtesy of your tiny Jewish member
This week’s Australian Jewish News (AJN) selects a story of world-shattering importance for its page one yarn: The ABC is facing a major Jewish community backlash on two fronts after featuring outspoken Israel critic Antony Loewenstein in a program on Islam that screened on first-night Pesach (Monday). With the national broadcaster already under fire from…
The clueless Senator
When it comes to discussing Israel/Palestine, politicians the world over are notoriously reticent to speak the truth about facts on the ground. In Australia, the only Jewish Federal MP, Michael Danby, seems incapable of mounting an argument that is more sophisticated than repeating press releases from the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Both major sides in politics…
Take me to a place where Jews can roam free
Shock, horror! A group of prominent Australian Jews, including the NSW Minister for Roads, Eric Roozendaal, the federal Labor MP Michael Danby and the former Victorian Supreme Court judge Howard Nathan have reacted angrily to calls for a more diverse debate on Israel made by a rival Jewish group this week. The counter petition, organised…