Articles in Politics and Media
By Anthony Frosh & Rachel Sacks-Davis
Fascism has long been associated with far right-wing political movements. Today, when it comes to suppressing the expression of ideas, it is getting increasingly difficult to distinguish between the so-called intellectual …
By Anthony Frosh
By now you may have read or heard about the British Supreme Court ruling against a Jewish Orthodox school. The court has ruled that the school is not permitted to define who is …
Interview and article by Sara K
Michael Gawenda, the author of Rocky and Gawenda: The Story of a Man and his Mutt, opened up to Galus Australis last week about his time as editor-in-chief at The …
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 …
By Les Rosenblatt
No prize for guessing what the attitude was of the 150 or so attendees at the talk by The Age’s Editor- in- Chief, Paul Ramadge, to the Plenum of the JCCV (Jewish Community …
By Ariel
When it comes to this subject, I feel a great rupture between my intellect and emotions; between my acceptance of the reality of the world in which we live and my ideas of …
by Philip Mendes
The last few weeks have seen a revival of the previously dormant Australian campaign for an academic boycott of Israel.
Jake Lynch, a former UK journalist recently appointed Director of the Sydney University Center …
By Larry Stillman
When reading a recent New York Times magazine article by James Traub about the emergence of a left-of centre ‘Israel Lobby’, I was particularly struck by how completely different the situation is in …
BDS unjust and counterproductive
We write in response to the two letters published in The Australian on Monday 21 September by Antony Loewenstein and Jake Lynch, supporting the call for a boycott of certain Israeli universities …
By Michael Danby
Antony Loewenstein and Jake Lynch (The Australian, Letters blog, 22 September) criticise Philip Mendes and Nick Dyrenfurth for their opposition to the campaign for “boycott, disinvestment and sanctions” directed at Israel. But they …
