by AJDS | Mar 14, 2015 | Blog, Newsletter
By Harold Zwier, Robert Richter, Paris Aristotle, Robert Manne and Ralph Genende This is the transcript of a Limmud Oz session held at Monash University, Caulfield Campus, on Sunday 8th June 2014, on Asylum Seekers and Refugees. Organized by Harold Zwier, the session...
by AJDS | Mar 14, 2015 | Blog, Newsletter
By Harold Zwier, Robert Richter, Paris Aristotle, Robert Manne and Ralph Genende This is the transcript of a Limmud Oz session held at Monash University, Caulfield Campus, on Sunday 8th June 2014, on Asylum Seekers and Refugees. Organized by Harold Zwier, the session...
by AJDS | Mar 3, 2015 | Blog, Statements
Members of the Australian Jewish Democratic Society (AJDS) are dismayed that the United Israel Appeal (UIA) has brought a series of ill-considered speakers to Australia to support their 2015 fundraising campaign. Amongst these speakers are people who consistently...
by AJDS | Feb 23, 2015 | Blog, Statements
The following statement was issued 13 February 2015, and is co-signed by AJDS. You can download the pdf here. NEVER AGAIN: LET’S END THE DETENTION OF CHILDREN ONCE AND FOR ALL The report of the Australian Human Rights Commission’s National Inquiry into Children...
by AJDS | Feb 18, 2015 | Blog, Statements
Over the last two weeks we have watched the Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sex Abuse conduct hearings focused on the Yeshivah Centre in Melbourne and Sydney. The testimony has been shocking and profoundly disturbing. The level of deceit and lack of care...
by AJDS | Jan 5, 2015 | Blog, Statements
Julie Bishop’s decision to side with the United States in voting against the UN SecurityCouncil Draft resolution on Israeli withdrawal from the Occupied Territories is another missed opportunity for Australia to support both Israel and Palestine, and contribute...
by AJDS | Dec 17, 2014 | Blog
The following letter to Josh Frydenberg MP concerning Australia’s refugee policy constitutes a report of a meeting that took place on December 11, 2014. *** The Hon Josh Frydenberg MP Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister Dear...
by AJDS | Dec 5, 2014 | Blog, Statements
The Australian Jewish Democratic Society (AJDS), as a Jewish group particularly sensitive to the plight of those seeking protection, is appalled by the migration legislation that was passed overnight. The bill introduces new temporary visas and gives the Minister...
by AJDS | Dec 5, 2014 | Blog, Newsletter
By Ann Fink Tales of a City by the Sea was a stunning theatrical experience. It is a many layered love story, set in the Gaza Strip. It is a unique play, written by Samah Sabawi, a Palestinian-Canadian-Australian writer, poet, playwright and political commentator; a...
by AJDS | Dec 5, 2014 | Blog, Newsletter
By Nicole Erlich In my role as executive member of the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) I joined a delegation in the last week of November to speak to Federal politicians about the dire and volatile situation in Israel and the Palestinian Occupied...