Articles in Larry Stillman
Australia Day Honours? Give them the Gong!
By Larry Stillman
As my wife knows, one of my most vivid and recurring dreams involves members of the Royal Family and Princess Anne’s ruby lips.
And purely by chance – or is it destiny? – because …
Why the Silence of the Lambs?
By Larry Stillman
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 …
The Social Network of Jews and WASPs
By Larry Stillman Some films are best understood by insiders, and The Social Network is a case in point. This is not to say that its story and message cannot be greatly enjoyed by outsiders, …
Right-of-reply: ADC report muddies the water
By Larry Stillman
This article is a response to Deborah Stone’s recent piece in Galus Australis and her summary of the ADC special report, “Antisemitism on Campus. Contemporary Jewish experience at Victorian universities”. The article has …
Hate speech has no boundaries
By Larry Stillman
Hate speech is often characterized as ‘words that wound’, words that are deliberately intended to cause severe discomfort, stigmatization, a feeling of being sullied, and humiliation in the face of others.”
Within the Melbourne …
Why the AJDS are right to support a limited boycott
By Larry Stillman
I’d like to argue the moral case for supporting a selective boycott of products from the Occupied West Bank. I take the view that it is illegally held territory in which its prior …
Birthright should Promote Human Rights not Occupation
By Larry Stillman
In July, Coteret, an Israeli news site, reported that Australian young people were taken on a tour of central Hebron by Birthright/Talglit, a program that has brought hundreds of thousands of young Jews …
An Israel for all its citizens rather than an Israel for all Jews
by Larry Stillman
“In recent years, Israeli groups have put forward several constitutions for the state of Israel. However, these proposals…have been preoccupied with the question of, ‘Who is a Jew?’ and have neglected the primary …
A Most Unpleasant Word
By Larry Stillman
It hurts. Israel is increasingly called an apartheid state.
In this opinion piece, I wish to deal with the issue from the ‘inside’, from the perspective of an Australian Jew with an abiding connection …
This is not District 9
By Larry Stillman
I saw the film last night but this is not District 9.
I write this in Johannesburg, out of touch with the latest “boat’ people crisis” back in Australia, but nonetheless very concerned. Despite …
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