Zionism Victoria and the United Israel Appeal are hosting a commemoration for Yom HaZikaron (Remembrance Day) this year, marking 60 years since the Sinai Campaign of 1956, and 10 years since the second Lebanon War of 2006….
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Samah Sabawi’s play “Tales of a City by the Sea” was recently named by the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC), chaired by Dvir Abramovich, as a text that incites against Israel and should therefore be removed from the…
Protecting our environment is crucial. None of our activism or struggle for social justice could take place were it not for the physical environment in which we live and work. The Victorian government has recently…
In response to “Why Israel? A look at Israel and UN bias” by Leah Goldman (pseudonym) in our newsletter, Just Voices #7, Robin Rothfield has sent in the following letter: The Editor Just Voices Dear Keren I am writing to…
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The AJDS community stands deeply appalled by Australia’s shameful ongoing treatment of asylum seekers and refugees. The current escalation in desperate measures by people in detention across Australia and offshore highlights the need for change and action. As we witness the political ‘race…
What’s your background? Sounds like the beginning of a joke: A librarian, a therapist and a textile designer walk into a detention centre… Our background is homo sapiens. To which detention centres have you been…
What’s your background? Sounds like the beginning of a joke: A librarian, a therapist and a textile designer walk into a detention centre… Our background is homo sapiens. To which detention centres have you been…
The following excerpt is taken from In the Shadows of Memory: The Holocaust and the Third Generation (2016), a multi-disciplinary study of the third generation of Holocaust survival, that is, the grandchildren of those who…
By Arnold Zable On this day, April 19, 1943, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising broke out, ushering in an extraordinary battle for freedom and dignity. We gather tonight, as we always do on this date, to…