I am horrified. A prominent synagogue was set on fire in Melbourne, Australia, today requiring 17 fire trucks and 60 firefighters to bring the extensive damage under control. The Australian Federal Police, Australia’s FBI, is investigating.
Decades growing up with the history of war, I stood this morning as a minute’s silence overwhelmed the mundane.
Tagged: Antisemitism, Pluralism, Politics, Remembrance Day, Tolerance
At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918 WW1 ended. Twenty years later, almost to that day, the Nazis unleashed the Kristallnacht pogrom in Germany and Austria, and The Holocaust against the Jews began.
Tagged: Antisemitism, Extremism, Genocide, Hate, Islamism, Jews, Remembrance Day
Fox News is a media behemoth, and I’ve just finished watching Gutfeld! explore a new epidemic that’s genuinely sweeping Democrats in the US—crying.
Tagged: Deportation, Harris, Illegal, Immigration, Trump, US Election
By January 8 2021 Donald Trump had lost. Joe Biden was president elect. Yet only two days prior, Trump had incited a riot at the US Congress to stop his vice president, Mike Pence, ratifying the Electoral College’s count, and he still hadn’t conceded defeat.
Yesterday, Australia’s Age and Sydney Morning Herald papers ran an article by Dr Jenna Price of ANU with separate headlines: “In my Jewish World, we’re torn apart”, later expanded as “Jews are being torn apart. If my sister were alive, even we wouldn’t be talking”.
Tagged: Gaza, Israel, Jenna Price, Judaism, October 7
I found out that I was blocked on X by a well-known Aussie journo sometime this past week. She possibly may not have liked a reply of mine regarding the Israel-Iran war in Gaza or Lebanon. So what huh?
As a capitalist of the big-government persuasion I found Naomi Klein’s 2007 book Shock Doctrine groundbreaking. Her thesis of Disaster Capitalism—the milking of natural crises for profit—has influenced my thoughts about greed, neoliberalism and globalisation since.
Tagged: Antisemitism, Hamas, Holocaust, Israel, Naomi Klein, October 7, Palestine
The media is playing a dangerous game today focusing on alleged anti-war agitators dressed in keffiyehs barricading Melbourne’s 2024 Land Forces Defence Expo that just opened.
Tagged: Anti-War, Antisemitism, Gaza, Hamas, Land Forces Expo, Protest, The Age
Sometimes very little separates irony from tragedy and Labour’s Keir Starmer, the UK’s month-old prime minister, has already set eyes rolling blinkered as he is against the political steamroller heading his way.
Tagged: Gaza, Hamas, Illegal, Immigration, Islamism, Islamist, Islamophobia, Keir Starmer, UK
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