Year: 2013

The Australian Jewish Democratic Society (AJDS) commends the Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, and Governor-General Quentin Bryce for awarding an honorary citizenship to Raoul Wallenberg.

In March – timed to coincide with Pesach – AJDS launched a new campaign entitled “Don’t Buy Settlement Products”. The related website and Facebook page provide information about why settlements located in the West Bank and Golan Heights are harmful for Palestinians and Israelis.

Gideon Levy made a far-ranging presentation at Wits University in South Africa on 18 April. It is a long presentation (1 hr, 45 mins), which includes remarks from the floor, but at almost every point in the talk, something interesting is said.

גדעון לוי מדבר על הצורך בהתנגדות מהכיבוש.העולם לא יסכים ל4 מיליון פלסטינים חיים ללא זכויות וישראלים צריכים להבין את זה (לחץ על תמונה)

I caught up with Gideon Levy after a close to 2 hour talk by him to a packed room at Wits University in Johannesburg. Let there be no doubt about it–his words would be discomforting to both the left and right, but for different reasons.

Please send your own form letter through this link and see here  for more information and updates about what is going on and what can be done.  Please see below the text of a letter to Brendan O’Connor MP, Minister…

Ann Fink, an Australian-Israeli dual national resident in Israeli and supporter of the AJDS had the opinion below published on Jwire in response to an attempt to brand AJDS as being outside the pale in an opinion.

Ann Fink, an Australian-Israeli dual national resident in Israeli and supporter of the AJDS had the opinion below published on Jwire in response to an attempt to brand AJDS as being outside the pale in an opinion.

This article by Antony Lerman appeared in the Guardian a number of years ago now, but it well explains the current right-wing takeover of Zionist politics in Australia and the take-no-prisoners attitude to dissenters.

There is controversy about the AJDS-supported campaign for people to not buy products from the settlements. In response to an article on Galusaustralis, Harold Zwier made this comment, which is worth quoting in its entirety.