With the Victorian State election just days away, we might pause to ask what is at stake when we go to vote. The Liberal opposition is attempting to make an issue of law and order. They use…
Jews against fascism Australian Jewish Democratic Society (AJDS) Hashomer Hatzair Australia Jewish Labour Bund Melbourne Calling all anti-racist Jews in Melbourne! We’re organising a Jewish bloc to attend Rally: Stand Together Against Racism! This is…
Statement from Jewish, Muslim and Christian faith leaders 4th November 2018 As faith leaders from different traditions we see a clear moral imperative to end the nightmare in which some 1,250 refugees, including 38 children,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…