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Angela Budai: Sexual Harassment is not dead

by AJDS on June 24, 2010

Angela Budai posts:
Earlier this year a feminist conference was held in Sydney, the largest in 15 years with over 500 people in attendance from all over the country. It was sold out. The diversity in age and background of attendees put paid to reports in the media that feminism is dead. In fact feminist Anne Summers pointed out that “there are more male and female feminists today than at any other time in Australian history”.
And just as well.

The Renate Kamener Oration: Peter Singer

by AJDS on June 20, 2010

The Renate Kamener Oration: Peter Singer (Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University)

“Living Ethically in a Divided World”

7.15 for 7.30pm, Sunday 11th July 2010 Leo Baeck Centre, 33 Harp Rd East Kew. $15 admission.
Proceeds will go to the establishment of a scholarship for Indigenous students at the University of Melbourne. Additional donations welcomed.

The Renate Kamener Oration: Peter Singer

by AJDS on June 20, 2010

The Renate Kamener Oration: Peter Singer (Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University)

“Living Ethically in a Divided World”

7.15 for 7.30pm, Sunday 11th July 2010 Leo Baeck Centre, 33 Harp Rd East Kew. $15 admission.
Proceeds will go to the establishment of a scholarship for Indigenous students at the University of Melbourne. Additional donations welcomed.

The Flotilla: A profound disappoinment

by AJDS on June 7, 2010

A letter in today’s Australian from Harold Zwier , an AJDS member
AS the party boarding the ships to enforce their naval blockade of Gaza, the Israelis had a duty of care in dealing with civilians. The death of nine civilians and injury to more than 30 others is a clear indication that the Israelis failed in that duty of care.

Not a good outcome for democracy and justice

by AJDS on June 4, 2010

The Gaza Flotilla fiasco doesn’t bode well for democratic reform on several fronts:
* Within Israel, it will create tensions between the military top brass who are now being blamed for a bad job, and the political elite who authorised it.
* The sense of victimhood that is pervasive in the Israel and international Jewish media will only further push many people further to the right (and fewer to the left), and the secular, progressive left will have an even harder task in convincing the population that the current political set up is a disaster.
* On the part of Hamas in Gaza and its supporters in the West, a hard-line agenda will also be given a spur and intolerant Islamic nationalism, rather than democratic secularism will appeal to more people, continuing the split with the PLO in the West Bank.

Norman Rothfield 1912-2010: A celebration of his life July 4 2010

by AJDS on June 4, 2010

If you knew Norman Rothfield or knew of him, his family would like to invite you 3.00pm, Sunday 4 July, St Kilda Town Hall, Brighton Rd St Kilda
An early RSVP to the family would be appreciated, either by email [email protected] or by phone to messagebank at 9482 5574.
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The AJDS deeply mourns the passing of Norman Rothfield, who died on 4 June aged 98. Among his many activities, he was a founding member and supporter of the Australian Jewish Democratic Society and an inspiration to all who knew him.
Norman’s 76 years of activism went back to the 1930s in the UK, where he was elected to local government at the Age of 22, and he was a member of many progressive organizations in Australia, including the Council Against Fascism and Anti-Semitism (President 1947), Paths to Peace, and Australian Friends of Peace Now. He was active in the anti-nuclear and the Vietnam peace movements and the Fabian Society.
A detailed obituary can be found in The Age.
Norman was interviewed at length by Phillip Adams of ABC Radio several years ago, and the interview can be played or downloaded via this link.
You can also see a brief video clip of him speaking on December 13 2009 at the AJDS Annual Dinner in response to Denis Altman on Youtube at about 6″25′ onwards.
Norman’s publications included:
The Trial of God-a Challenge to Conventional Thinking (1998)
Many Paths to Peace: The Political Memoirs of Norman Rothfield (1997)

Flotilla Fallout: An Early Assessment

by AJDS on June 3, 2010

Moshe Yaroni has written an excellent analysis and of the fallout for different parties, Israeli, the Free Gaza Movement, IHH, Hamas, Turkey, the US. In particular, he looks at the difficulties that Free Gaza Movement has by being associated with IHH and by implication with violence, in contrast to its charter. We need to overcome naivete.

AJDS Statement on Israeli action against the Gaza Convoy

by AJDS on June 1, 2010

1 June 2010
The terrible and deplorable deaths and injuries that occurred on board the Turkish flagged ship, the Mavi Marmara, one of a convoy of ships attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, are not only heartbreaking for the immediate families of the nine people killed and the many injured, but a tragedy for all people who yearn for a resolution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict.

AJDS Statement on Israeli action against the Gaza Convoy

by AJDS on June 1, 2010

1 June 2010
The terrible and deplorable deaths and injuries that occurred on board the Turkish flagged ship, the Mavi Marmara, one of a convoy of ships attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, are not only heartbreaking for the immediate families of the nine people killed and the many injured, but a tragedy for all people who yearn for a resolution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict.

Israel's Kent State?

by AJDS on May 31, 2010

Israel’s Kent State
By Moshe Yaroni
Having worked on the issue of Israel and its myriad conflicts for many years, one gets used to tragedy and even to stunningly abhorrent behavior. And indeed, I have seen more than enough of both from all sides in this conflict.
But every once in a while, things take a turn, and that turn is punctuated by a singular, stunning event. The murderous raid on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla this day was one such event

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