Following the decision by the Presbyterian Church (USA) to divest from three U.S. companies whose products, they argue, are used to support Israeli occupation, Americans for Peace Now today issued the following statement: “Last Friday’s…
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Following the decision by the Presbyterian Church (USA) to divest from three U.S. companies whose products, they argue, are used to support Israeli occupation, Americans for Peace Now today issued the following statement: “Last Friday’s…
Here is another installment in our Oral History Project. This time Max Kaiser interviews executive member Jemima Light, about the path that led her to the AJDS. You can listen to the interview here. You…
When Brandis said that the government would not call East Jerusalem “occupied” he invoked history. Through his invocation of “historical events”, Brandis naturalised one version of history and erased another. He asked his audience to pretend that one description of the past – the one that doesn’t support Israel’s sovereignty in East Jerusalem – doesn’t exist.
The Australian Jewish Democratic Society strongly opposes the statement made by Attorney-General George Brandis (6 June 2014) that: “the description of East Jerusalem as ‘Occupied East Jerusalem’ is a term freighted [sic] with pejorative implications,…
The Australian Jewish Democratic Society strongly opposes the statement made by Attorney-General George Brandis (6 June 2014) that: “the description of East Jerusalem as ‘Occupied East Jerusalem’ is a term freighted [sic] with pejorative implications,…
By Nimrod Ben-Zeev / The Social History Workshop Translated by Keren Rubinstein Hebrew article published in Haaretz blogs, 28 May 2014 “As Ras al Nakoura appeared in the distance, dim on the blue horizon, the car stopped….
By Nimrod Ben-Zeev / The Social History Workshop Translated by Keren Rubinstein Hebrew article published in Haaretz blogs, 28 May 2014 “As Ras al Nakoura appeared in the distance, dim on the blue horizon, the car stopped….
The Melbourne Moishe House has been accused of silencing community voices and setting exclusive and conservative limits on the boundaries of acceptable Jewishness. ‘Moishe House’ is an international organisation which sets up sharehouses for young…
The characterisation of Australian Jews as being one community is itself a misnomer, given the breadth of opinion, history and political perspective among Jews in Australia.