From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free! This is where they’d like us to be.!! How many times have we heard those dreadful words about the fictitious country of ‘Palestine’. With these words etched in one’s mind, how can we possibly for one moment think that the …
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Antisemitism v anti-Semitism.
The incorrect spelling of antisemitism is getting to me more and more of late. I feel the need to write about it in order to get people to spell it correctly by learning the meaning of the words and where they originated. Somewhere, somehow in recent years the spelling has …
Read More »“Peace & Conflict” studies to be downgraded.
Christian Kerr writes in the The Australian newspaper today that University of Sydney has foreshadowed a downgrading of its controversial Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, following a drop in student enrollments. The centre and its director, associate professor Jake Lynch, have been embroiled in a string of public squabbles …
Read More »Happy Australia day. January 26th
Happy Australia Day. Let’s remember what a great country we have and celebrate with this poem about the history of our flag. Our Flag wears the stars that blaze at night, In our Southern skies of blue, And a little old flag in the corner, That’s part of our heritage …
Read More »Yesh Din: A Grantee of the New Israel Fund.
Yesh Din, an NGO operating in Israel and is a grantee of the New Israel Fund. It receives funding from the world’s largest anti-Israel countries and organisations. On its website, in its ‘About’ section Yesh Din says: Yesh Din is a volunteer organization working to defend the human rights of …
Read More »Junior Terrorists .
It would appear that terrorists are becoming younger daily. In what was clearly a terrorist linked incident Curtis Cheng, a much liked, long serving civilian member of NSW Police Dept. was shot dead on Friday Oct 2nd by radicalised 15-year-old Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar, who was born in Iran and came …
Read More »Who is a Zionist?
The issue of who is a Zionist has come to the forefront in the past week or so, thanks to Bat-Zion Susskind-Sacks who has decided that only Jews can be Zionists and is working very hard on non-Jews to declare they are ‘pro-Zionist’ and not ‘Zionist’. This I might add …
Read More »Egypt cleaning up ‘Down Under’.
Egypt has been fighting a losing battle in the Sinai for a number of years now. With the overthrow of Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak in the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 conflict the country became increasingly unstable and it created a security issue in the Sinai peninsula. Radical Islamic terrorists in …
Read More »The Wanton Destruction of Gaza.
Abbas has the chutzpah to complain about Israel ‘damaging’ the Al-Aqsa Mosque, when in Gaza they are destroying their history. This is just one video of what the Arab thugs have been doing to the place they claim is the third holiest place in Islam. A statement issued by the …
Read More »Sydney commemorates Haifa Day.
I suppose like me, not many people have heard of Haifa Day. Before giving an account of that, one needs to know of the history of India and Jews, with a brief account of the afternoon. The Haifa Day commemoration I was privileged to attend on Sunday was organised …
Read More »Another Wall and not a peep from the Israel haters?
Yes another wall and where, oh where, are the Israel haters. Until a week ago I was under the impression at the last count there were more than 45 walls separating countries and territories. Now it seems there are more being built elsewhere in Europe. In Hungary the government is …
Read More »Presidential antisemitism.
In a discussion a few days ago, a number of people claimed that President Barack Obama was antisemitic. I personally don’t see his obvious dislike for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as antisemitism. I don’t really know how to take him, though I do think John Kerry in making the statement …
Read More »Is anti-Zionism necessarily Antisemitism?
“Israeli flags not welcome at London rally against antisemitism” This above is the title of an article a few days ago on the Times of Israel which created quite a stir in discussion regarding anti-Zionism and antisemitism and really got me worked up. Speaking at pluralistic Golders Green Together counter-protest, …
Read More »O little town of Bethlehem.
O little town of Bethlehem How still we see thee lie. This little tid-bit is from Kay Wilson, a person I am proud to call a friend. Kay is a British-born Israeli tour guide, jazz musician and cartoonist. She is the survivor of a brutal terror attack. Since the attack …
Read More »Pending: Sexual discrimination case against Hizb ut-Tahrir.
Alison Bevege, who was a journalist for Northern Territory News in Darwin before relocating to Sydney in March 2014, has lodged a claim against the Islamist organisation, Hizb ut-Tahrir for $100,000, citing sexual discrimination. Reportedly she was told by a Hizb ut-Tahrir representative that she couldn’t sit at the front of …
Read More »Jake Lynch let off scott-free.
Well as we expected , Jake Lynch has been let off scot-free for his shocking behaviour during the guest visit to the University of Sydney by Ret.Colonel Richard Kemp on March 11th this year. During this event Lynch exhibited what to us is seen as antisemitism. It appears that the …
Read More »The other Göring.
Hermann Wilhelm Göring (Georing) was a German politician, Nazi military leader, Commander of the Luftwaffe, President of the Reichstag, Prime Minister of Prussia and Adolf Hitler’s designated successor. Together with Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Tristan Heydrich he created the secret police. The three men together set up the early concentration camps …
Read More »St. George was a Palestinian.
Once again the ‘invented people’ are claiming a person to be a ‘Palestinian’, this time St. George of all people? One has to wonder why the Arabs have such a desire to claim everyone as a Palestinian who comes from the fictitious State of Palestine. Every Christmas we hear the …
Read More »BDS Prof. Peter Slezak is refused to present Limmud-Oz. session.
Given his support of the BDS – Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against the State of Israel, the Board of the Shalom Institute has refused an application for Associate Professor Peter Slezak to ‘present’ at Limmud Oz. Two years ago he was permitted to speak providing he agreed to certain guidelines. …
Read More »USYD Prof. Jake Lynch cleared of antisemitism
It seems, according to today’s Sydney Morning Herald, that the University of Sydney has cleared Associate Professor Jake Lynch, who is the director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney, of antisemitism. However, he still has the threat of dismissal hanging over him regarding his …
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