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Anti-Semitism
The Last Word: Time to join the Task Force
After more than a decade of activity, the ITF still generates energy, enthusiasm and creativity. It serves as a facilitator of co-operation and the exchange of ideas designed to bring about "best practise" in combating the malevolent ideas which lay...
Published: 27/07/2010 read more
Quick Off The Mark
Quick's Australian visit received almost no public attention and his hosts escaped the criticism and condemnation they merited....
Author: Jeremy Jones Published: 27/04/2010 read more
Europa Europa: Benign Neglect
Jews straddle the fault line of Europe's engagement with Islam, and the level of antisemitism has become a critical barometer of Europe's fate. So while the fall of the antisemitic taboo is bad news for Jews, it also measures the effect of Europe's ...
Author: Douglas Davis Published: 26/03/2010 read more
Books: Obsessive Hate
Although the relentlessly irrational quality of antisemitism makes it an irresistible target for elaborate psychological theories, Wistrich largely and wisely steers clear of that quagmire....
Author: External author Published: 26/03/2010 read more
The Last Word: Bigotry's Facilitators
The existence of bigotry, prejudice and racism is unfortunately far from absent in Australia, but in this instance the shock was that it was disseminated through a body promoting multiculturalism....
Author: Jeremy Jones Published: 26/03/2010 read more
White paper should tackle terrorist television
Concern about domestic radicalisation and home-grown terrorism is a big part of the government's white paper on counter-terrorism released last week. So why haven't successive governments banned Hezbollah's television station, al-Manar, from screeni...
Author: Bren Carlill Published: 09/03/2010 read more
The Last Word: Community standards
Even in or era of heightened awareness of the harm to society inflicted by racism, many individuals in positions of authority and leadership seem completely oblivious to the nature and reality of antisemitism....
Author: Jeremy Jones Published: 01/03/2010 read more
Climate of Hate
Virtually every day I see one or more reports of a Jewish person being assaulted, Jewish communal property vandalised, abusive and threatening emails, offensive letters and telephone calls or abuse yelled at identifiably Jewish people from passing v...
Author: Jeremy Jones Published: 18/12/2009 read more
Questions about Islamist Antisemitism
Islamist antisemitism is thoroughly soaked in many of the most inflammatory themes that initially made possible the atrocities of Crystal Night and its horrific aftermath during the Holocaust....
Author: External author Published: 18/12/2009 read more
The Last Word: In Your Faith
One of the loudest Muslim commentators, however, used the issue to foster anti-Jewish feeling, with the subtle invocation of the myth of Jewish power....
Author: Jeremy Jones Published: 18/12/2009 read more
The Last Word: Transparency
Jim Saleam has become one of the best known faces of the generally faceless far right fringe, who appears oblivious to his lack of accord with the basic decency of the population to which he offers himself as a leader....
Author: Jeremy Jones Published: 24/11/2009 read more
Scribblings: The Quality of Mercy is Strained
There are two points to be made about the release of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdal Baset al-Megrahi to his native Libya on "compassionate grounds" by Scottish authorities....
Author: Tzvi Fleischer Published: 31/08/2009 read more
The Last Word: Contempt for Truth
Unlike the other individuals who have been ordered by Australian courts to cease harassment, insult and vilification, Fredrick Toben seemed determined to bring punishment upon himself by flaunting the very gentle "penalty" of being directed to obey ...
Author: Jeremy Jones Published: 31/08/2009 read more
Terrorist television would violate our racial hatred laws
ACMA did not see any problem with an advertisement on al-Manar soliciting donations for the al-Emdad charity, which is used primarily for supporting the families of Hezbollah fighters. Giving it money is effectively indistinguishable from giving mon...
Author: Colin Rubenstein Published: 07/08/2009 read more
Scribblings: Children to Martyrs
The magazine features imagery, poems and stories designed to encourage children to seek martyrdom, "liberate Palestine" and deplore Jews....
Author: Tzvi Fleischer Published: 29/06/2009 read more
A Papal Pilgrim's Progress
Pope Benedict XVI's five-day "pastoral pilgrimage of prayer and unity" for peace and reconciliation in Israel and the Palestinian territories in May passed without serious hitches - though his unusual speech at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial arou...
Author: Yehonathan Tommer Published: 27/05/2009 read more
The Last Word: Papal Footsteps
The Pope's condemnations of antisemitism in general and Holocaust denial in particular were forthright and consistent....
Author: Jeremy Jones Published: 27/05/2009 read more
AIR New Zealand: Durban Dissent
Ever since I heard that a "Durban II" conference on racism was going to be held, I've watched with interest to see whether New Zealand would be involved and what sort of public dialogue might occur about our stance....
Author: Miriam Bell Published: 28/04/2009 read more
Debacle at Durban II
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's tirade on April 20 to the United Nations' Durban II "anti-racism" conference in Geneva should not have surprised anyone....
Author: External author Published: 28/04/2009 read more
History in the making
We leave the UN precinct satisfied. The conference now seems totally undermined and Ahmadinejad has unwittingly alienated Iran from the rest of the nations. Our protest has worked both in the NGO hall and the plenary....
Author: External author Published: 28/04/2009 read more
Creativity and realism required for success in Middle East talks
YESTERDAY in Washington, President Barack Obama formally launched the resumption of direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians after a 19-month hiatus. International expectations for the talks are low because there appear to be a number of fac...
03/09/2010 read more
Hamas, Israeli Security and Peacemaking
Following the Israeli-Palestinian Summit in Washington yesterday (in which the details of discussions were kept discreet), this Update features some comments on Hamas' role as a potential spoiler in the wake of the Hamas terror attack Tuesday, which...
03/09/2010 read more
Today's Israeli-Palestinian Summit in Washington
As readers are doubtless aware, Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu is meeting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas today in Washington in a summit designed to formally re-launch direct Israeli Palestinian peace talks. This Update offers backgrou...
02/09/2010 read more
Editorial: In the Balance
The next prime minister of Australia should be whoever can more convincingly promise a stable coalition able to undertake the responsibilities of government more effectively. Overseas and Australian state government experience demonstrates that s...
27/08/2010 read more
Scribblings: The BBC Pre-empts Flotilla Inquiries
Israelis have been much focused in recent weeks on the testimony of various top officials to the Turkel inquiry - looking into the flotilla clash off Gaza on May 31 that left nine Turkish activists dead. On top of this, the Israeli government has ma...
27/08/2010 read more
AIR New Zealand: A Tzur Thing
When Israel reopened an embassy in Wellington in April this year, it seemed obvious that the new Ambassador, Shemi Tzur, and his staff had a big job in front of them. Almost a decade without on-the-ground representation, as well as some years of tro...
27/08/2010 read more
Fall of the Teflon Terrorist?
On Aug. 9, 2010, members of Indonesia's elite counter-terrorist police force arrested the militant cleric Abu Bakar Bashir as part of their ongoing investigations into a terrorist training camp discovered in February 2010 in Aceh, plots to kill Pres...
27/08/2010 read more
Israel's Endangered Deterrence
There are few journalists specialising in strategic and security affairs more experienced than Ron Ben Yishai. After fighting as a paratrooper in the Six Day War, Ben Yishai turned to journalism full time. Since then he has covered, from the battlef...
27/08/2010 read more
Hamas' Gaza Killing Spree
News stories about bodies found at sea are occasionally published by Gaza newspapers. The number of such bodies isn't huge, yet not all those drowning victims chose to go swimming voluntarily. The Gazans who found their death at sea include mid-leve...
27/08/2010 read more
The State of the Iranian Revolution
Since coming to power in 1979, the Islamic Revolution in Iran has had two main aims. First, it wished to remain in power and if this was the aim of the Islamic Revolution, 31 years later, it has been successful. But revolutions don't come about simp...
27/08/2010 read more
Essay: Decade of Disappointment
It's been a decade since Israeli and Palestinian leaders met as peacemakers only to part at loggerheads. Now, with most of the Camp David summit's protagonists long gone from the scene, that ill-fated conclave's military, diplomatic and political re...
27/08/2010 read more
The Last Word: Ideology Above Humanity
What struck me then, and continues to strike me, was their complete lack of concern, sometimes even contempt, for the human beings they claimed to champion and the hatred for the human beings on the other side of the political divide. There was no r...
27/08/2010 read more