by AJDS | Mar 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
Dimi Reider on the Israeli +972 blog site. Didi lays it on the line about the hypocrisy of some on the left (including the Israeli left) won’t call a spade a space. This doesn’t mean that you cannot remain opposed to the Occupation and the disempowerment...
by AJDS | Mar 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
Hold the back page! The detailed scoop on the QSociety’s links can be read in New Matilda. The full version, edited down because of space limitations, includes a discussion of the ‘quite interesting views’ of Bill Muehlenberg of the Australian Family...
by AJDS | Mar 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
Hold the back page! The detailed scoop on the QSociety’s links can be read in New Matilda. The full version, edited down because of space limitations, includes a discussion of the ‘quite interesting views’ of Bill Muehlenberg of the Australian Family...
by AJDS | Mar 6, 2011 | Uncategorized
The Melbourne Age has an account of the events surrounding the Alma Road Community House, as well as an editorial in which the AJDS gets a guernsey for its work. As the Age says, “Encouragingly, this racist campaign has led some members of the Jewish community...
by AJDS | Feb 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
Criticism and critical (‘higher criticism’) scholarship about religion and religious texts is par for the course, and expected in an educated, liberal, and secular society. [The attached image is taken from the Australian Islamist Monitor Website just to...
by AJDS | Feb 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
Criticism and critical (‘higher criticism’) scholarship about religion and religious texts is par for the course, and expected in an educated, liberal, and secular society. [The attached image is taken from the Australian Islamist Monitor Website just to...
by AJDS | Feb 26, 2011 | Editorials
A campaign to bar a Muslim prayer group from using an East St Kilda Community House for one hour a week is being driven by extremists with an anti-Muslim agenda. The public controversy was manufactured by a group calling themselves the Q Society. The Q Society...
by AJDS | Feb 26, 2011 | Editorials
A campaign to bar a Muslim prayer group from using an East St Kilda Community House for one hour a week is being driven by extremists with an anti-Muslim agenda. The public controversy was manufactured by a group calling themselves the Q Society. The Q Society...
by AJDS | Feb 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
This is all very local politics, but another test for diversity and freedom of peaceful association. There is a planning application to increase the size of meetings so that a Muslim prayer group can meet for a couple of hours a week in St Kilda, Victoria at a...