by AJDS | Feb 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
Everyone has an opinion, and there was a recent event at the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas at the State Library of Victoria. You can watch the video/podcast via this
by AJDS | Feb 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
This time, Antony Loewenstein has had an unfair go at the NZ Prime Minister John Key in his blog, labeling him as Jewish and then being critical of his views on the Middle East. Key’s mother is Jewish, but he isn’t, is an agnostic, but goes to Church with...
by AJDS | Feb 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
This time, Antony Loewenstein has had an unfair go at the NZ Prime Minister John Key in his blog, labeling him as Jewish and then being critical of his views on the Middle East. Key’s mother is Jewish, but he isn’t, is an agnostic, but goes to Church with...
by AJDS | Feb 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
The Palestine Papers, as revealed by Al-Jazeerah and the Guardian, are explosive evidence about the state of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, leaning over backwards to break a deal—a deal that never went ahead and has even less chance of...
by AJDS | Feb 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
The Palestine Papers, as revealed by Al-Jazeerah and the Guardian, are explosive evidence about the state of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, leaning over backwards to break a deal—a deal that never went ahead and has even less chance of...
by AJDS | Jan 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
A good source of Israeli left opinion can be found at +972 Magazine, with about a dozen writers and many links.
by AJDS | Jan 23, 2011 | Uncategorized
Friday, January 21, 2011 Meretz USA statement on the UN resolution regarding Israel’s West Bank settlement activity “As the UN Security Council deliberates on a resolution condemning Israeli settlement construction over the Green Line, we appeal to the Israeli...
by AJDS | Dec 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
The current increase in racism in Israel should be put into context. It reflects, at a crude and populist level, and ‘unfortunate’ tendency in goverment, police, military, the media and various right-wing NGOs to take no prisoners when it comes to...
by AJDS | Dec 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
Professor Linda Briskman is the Chair of Human Rights Education at Curtin University in Western Australia. She is currently on academic study leave in the UK. These are her own views. In a refugee camp in the West Bank, I observe a group of children play-acting to the...
by AJDS | Dec 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
The AJDS resolution on selective boycotts of West Bank products resulted in great hostility from the ‘powers’ in the Jewish community, even the AJDS took care to distinguish what it resolved from more radical ‘boycott’ Israel positions. More...