Articles tagged with: Arab-Israeli conflict
SBS Ombudsman Response to Complaints about The Promise
The following response from the SBS ombudsman was sent to a reader:
I write in relation to your formal complaint to SBS about The Promise, a four part series broadcast by SBS on four consecutive Sunday …
Attempts at Censorship will Prove Counterproductive
By Anthony Frosh
In attempting to ban DVD sales of The Promise, a polemical mini-series recently screened on SBS, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) have done a proverbial Andrés Escobar.
Attempts, or even perceived attempts, …
Give the Vote to the Diaspora – Rethinking the Two-State Soltuion
By Geoff Bloch
The international community and moderates on both sides of the Israeli Palestinian conflict have, for decades, called for a two-state solution to end the military jurisdiction Israel maintains over some 1.6 million disenfranchised …
Sheltering from the Storm
By Tamar Paluch
I have a shelter. It’s a few steps from my Jerusalem home; they serve coffee and have wi-fi. It’s open nearly twenty-four hours a day. It’s where I am sitting because …
Postcard from Arab East Jerusalem
By Liam Getreu
While in Jerusalem a few weeks ago, I decided to go to East Jerusalem properly for the first time, and posted this originally on my blog. While my Jewish education was …
Let’s have Medical Aid Without the Politics
By Bernie Tuch
In January this year, an advertisement (see left) appeared in a magazine called Physician Life that is sent to registered physicians like me in Australia. Sponsored by an organization called Towards Hope Foundation …
Human Rights and Israel-Palestine at the Melbourne Festival of Ideas
By Andrew Wirth
I recently attended Melbourne University’s Festival of Ideas to hear a debate entitled: “The Middle East: the Cockpit of National Identities and Perpetual Conflict… can the idea of two states –Israeli and Palestinian …
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 …
Jewish Film Festival report: ‘For My Father’
By Keren Tuch
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It’s that time of year again, where I surrender my active lifestyle for sitting …
Hope for the Homeless
By Keren Tuch
Problems these days need creative solutions. If young Jews in the Diaspora are assimilating, let’s send them on a free, ten day tour of Israel to encourage Zionism and procreation. If Palestinians and …
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