by AJDS | Nov 1, 2018 | Event
80 years on from William Cooper’s protest against Kristallnacht we honour his memory and continue his legacy in standing up against injustice. Never again. As members of the Victorian Jewish community, we walk today together with our friends and allies in...
by AJDS | Oct 11, 2018 | Blog, Statements
The Australian Jewish Democratic Society is outraged by revelations from the coalition of researchers at the White Rose Society and the ABC Background Briefing program that neo-Nazis and members of the alt-right are stacking the NSW Young Nationals.Indeed, as the...
by AJDS | Oct 9, 2018 | Event
AFTER THE APOLOGY fundraiser screening Come and see After the Apology, screening one night only, to support the campaign to stop the alarming rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kids being removed from their families. 10 years on from former-Prime Minister...
by AJDS | Aug 10, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Robin Rothfield. [email protected] Last year the Jewish Left remembered the 50th anniversary of the 6 day war and the occupation which followed this war. On the occupation the Left was united in its condemnation of the government of Netanyahu in its failure to...
by AJDS | Aug 10, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Bassam Dally is a Palestinian-Israeli-Australian academic, advocate and commentator. He is an executive member of AFOPA and Vice President of APAN. “We should establish a new organisation called Palestine-Israel Liberation Organisation” said Obada in a conference on...
by AJDS | Aug 10, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Dr Said Zeedani is an associate professor of philosophy at Al-Quds University. This article is published in +972.As any political solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict seems to have been pushed beyond the horizon by Israeli government policies designed to...
by AJDS | Aug 10, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Awad Abdel Fattah is a former head of the Balad Party and a co-founder of the One Democratic State Campaign (ODSc). Originally published in +972.The Great Return March has the potential to lend its momentum to grassroots and popular struggles beyond Gaza’s fence, in...
by AJDS | Aug 10, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The following is the editorial from the special edition of the forward commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Nakba. You can view the full edition here.We present this special issue to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, the Arabic word for...
by AJDS | Aug 10, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
There is an expectation in Jewish communities around the world that all Jews embrace Zionism and offer unquestioning support for Israel, ‘right or wrong’. Jewish identity and Zionism are commonly and deliberately blurred. Jews who criticise Israel or question Zionism...
by AJDS | Aug 10, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Rebecca Vilkomerson is the executive director of Jewish Voice for Peace. (Photo Credit: Christopher Hazou) Originally published in Ha’aretz.Liberal Zionists: If you oppose injustice, white supremacy, Muslim bans and deportations in America, oppose them in Israel as...