APAN – Australia Palestine Advocacy Network Australian Jewish Democratic Society (AJDS) Australians for Palestine Advocacy Group Gideon Levy is an Israeli journalist and author best known for his work with Ha’aretz which he joined…
Month: November 2017
By Jordy Silverstein We’re all pretty familiar, I think, with the stereotype of the Ashkenazi Jewish man who doesn’t play sport. Living in Melbourne, that Ashkenazi stereotype gets placed upon the whole community, resulting in…
editorial Dear AJDS members and supporters, This issue of the Australian Jewish Democratic Society’s newsletter, Just Voices, is focused on antisemitism. This is a broad topic that encompasses many different and related phenomena, past and…
By Yael W. Shortly after moving to Sweden I was in touch with a relative who emailed with hopes for my safety, living in Malmö with the “Muslim problem.” Having no idea what she was…
The following excerpts were taken with the author’s permission from this article “As pro- and anti-Trump movements jockey to realize their agendas, the question of Jews and whiteness illustrates the high stakes—and dangers—of racialized politics….
By Fahad Ali, medical student and president of the Students for Palestine Society at the University of Sydney. Article here. “All I know of my country is through song and story, through books, faded…
By Yael W. On Antisemitism is a timely collection of writings given the current increase in popularity and organisation of the Right and far Right. The work is relevant not only given the overt antisemitism…
Written by Robert Börjesson, translated by Yael W. Originally published here. They survived the concentration camps- now Nazis are demonstrating outside their synagogue. Nordic Resistance movement- Nordiska Motståndsrörelsen (NMR) This Nazi organisation NMR was given permission…
By Jonah Boyarin Originally published on jewschool.com August 17, 2017, and reproduced with permission. Jewish Fear Jewish fear is American Neo-Nazis chanting “Blood and Soil” on American soil. Jewish fear is that buzzing feeling in…
By Ann Elizabeth Fink In Israel, the son of the Prime Minister of the Jewish State, Yair Netanyahu, posts an image on his Facebook page that is laden with antisemitic imagery. He draws an equivalence between…