Articles in Politics and Media
Shooting down religious freedom – The Sunday Age takes aim
By Andrew Harris
It was only a few days ago, but it feels like it was in another life, on another planet, that I was watching Go Back to Where You Came From on SBS, marvelling …
Menachem Khoen and Kevin Rudd – a Tale of Unfair Dismissal
On the anniversary of Kevin Rudd being dumped by his party, and following several articles published on this website and elsewhere critical of Lion FM boss Menachem Khoen, Ralph Zwier sees things from Khoen’s perspective.
Here …
Interview with a Sydney Flotillian
Vivienne Porzsolt, a spokesperson of Jews against the Occupation Sydney, is taking part in “Freedom Flotilla 2”.
Galus Australis conducted a one-shot (i.e. no follow-up) email-based interview with Ms Porzsolt. Below is the interview, completely …
Waiting for Palestine
Galus Australis’ correspondent, Malki Rose, is currently in Jerusalem attending the ROI Summit. This article is the first of a series that Malki is writing on identity and homelessness.
It is two days before Pesach…and I …
BDS Advocates and Sympathisers Accuse Limmud-Oz
By Anthony Frosh & Rachel Sacks-Davis
Advocates of boycotts, divestments and sanctions (BDS) against Israel, Vivienne Porzsolt and Peter Slezak, have had their applications to speak at Limmud-Oz next month in Sydney denied. Limmud-Oz Program Director, …
Reflections on Jewish Statelessness and Statehood
By Philip Mendes
One of my current research projects is an analysis of the disproportionate historical Jewish engagement with the political Left. As many readers will know, there were two key factors that drove Jewish involvement …
Letters to the Editor – Baseless Lies about Limmud
As a devotee, participant and lecturer at five of the previous Limmud-Oz Jewish cultural events in Sydney and Melbourne, I am jealous of its reputation. Limmud-Oz is one of the finest, most all-encompassing, …
Blurring the Humanitarian Welcome Mat
Continuing with our Pesach theme of asylum seekers and refugees, Malki Rose attended the launch of the ‘People Smugglers: Friend or Foe?’ exhibit now showing at the Jewish Museum of Australia.
Americans refer to them as …
Victorian Greens dealing with Levitical Leprosy
By Yaakov Gorr
Whilst Shabbos shul-goers were leyning Parashat Metzora, the Victorian Greens were in their State Conference and dealing with a leprosy of a different kind. A representative of the Greens’ NSW branch had been …
Letters to Editor – Responses to Mendes
Below are two slightly abbreviated versions of two lengthy responses we received in regard to the latest article by regular Galus contributor, Prof. Philip Mendes , Advocating Peace or Promoting Conflict and Discrimination? The Strange …
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