by AJDS | Mar 27, 2012 | Blog
For undiscriminating supporters of Israel, this report will be rejected out of hand as biased and exaggerated. In fact, this is a very sober document. For those who admit that there is human rights abuse, in the Occupied Territories, the report is very much what we...
by AJDS | Mar 22, 2012 | Blog
The spin doctors in the Israeli government and organizations like ‘Stand With Us’ are trying to exploit the fact of Israel’s progressive environment for gay, lesbian and transgender people to divert attention from the effects of the Occupation....
by AJDS | Feb 29, 2012 | Blog
Sol Salbe has done the world a great service by translating David Grossman’s essay about the death of a Palestinian in Israeli police custody. It is all too reminiscent of an Australian indigenous death in custody story. As Sol writes: Last Friday Haaretz did...
by AJDS | Feb 24, 2012 | Blog
Rabbi Shimon Cowen has published an article in a conservative journal highly critical of programs to promote anti-bullying of young gay people, because he believes them to ‘normalize’ homosexuality. His views aside, the issue is an important one for...
by AJDS | Feb 20, 2012 | Blog
Sunday, 4 March 2012 15:00 until 17:00 Multicultural Hub Melbourne -Green Room, 506 Elizabeth Street (opposite the Queen Victoria Market), a short walk from Melbourne Central station What kind of Jewish community do we want? What issues are important to us and what do...
by AJDS | Feb 3, 2012 | Blog
This article, by AJDS Executive member Harold Zwier was published, in a very slightly modified form in the Australian Jewish News of 2 Feb 2012. The AJN version is attached below. Recently The Age newspaper reported that the Executive Council of Australian Jewry...