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Dr Gabor Maté on Healing, Justice and Liberation for All — a Jewish Council of Australia event
Below is the full recording of the sold-out event recently held at the Melbourne Jewish community. You can also watch the video directly on YouTube here.
NBC coverage of Sarah Schwartz’s comments about the recent antisemitic attacks
NBC News has a piece out titled “Australia struggles to address a surge in antisemitic attacks,” which includes Sarah Schwartz’s comments about the recent antisemitic attacks. An excerpt from Sarah’s comments quoted in the article: To address antisemitism on campus, we must also address the racism faced by other racialized groups, including First Nations, Palestinian,…
Free online event: Max Kaiser in Conversation with Robyn Reynolds
Join Max Kaiser and Roby Reynolds on Sun 23 February, 5pm (online) for a conversation about Judaism, antisemitism, and everything in between. Click here to register.
Max Kaiser speaks to AFR about the antisemitism investigation of Cairo Takeaway
Max Kaiser recently spoke to AFR (Australian Financial Review) for an article titled “Legal threat after ‘antisemitism investigation’ goes wrong.” An excerpt from Max’s comments quoted in the article: “There is enough real antisemitism out there in the world today. Confecting incidents like this … is horrible.” Click here to read the full piece (requires…
Our first year changed the conversation. Help us into year two
Dear supporters, This week marks one year since we launched the Jewish Council of Australia with our op-ed in The Age, declaring that as Jews, we support Palestinian human rights and don’t accept that criticism of Israel is antisemitic. Since launching we have witnessed something remarkable: an expanding movement of Jewish Australians ready to stand up for Palestinian…
Jewish Council opposes Parliamentary Inquiry recommendation to adopt controversial definition of antisemitism
[Image credit] The Jewish Council is deeply concerned with many of the recommendations released yesterday by the Parliamentary Inquiry into Antisemitism at Australian Universities. While increasing rates of antisemitism are of serious concern, this series of inquiries has been overtly politicised. The Jewish Council is strongly opposed to the recommendation for universities to adopt a…
Dennis Altman’s piece in The Jewish Independent: “Making sense of Trump on Gaza”
Advisory Committee member Professor Dennis Altman AM has a piece out in The Jewish Independent titled “Making sense of Trump on Gaza.” From the piece’s introduction: “How do we make sense of President Trump’s announcement that the United States would take over Gaza, and its inhabitants should move elsewhere?” Click here to read the full…
Advisory Member Antony Loewenstein speaks to Sky News about NSW hate-speech laws and Trump’s plan for Gaza
Advisory Member Antony Loewenstein recently spoke to Sky News about NSW hate-speech laws and Trump’s plan for Gaza. Click here to watch the interview on YouTube or use the embedded player below:
Executive Member Dr Naama Blatman writes for Al Jazeera about Trump’s ‘surrealistic statements’
Executive Member Dr Naama Blatman has a piece out in Al Jazeera (co-authored with Neve Gordon) about Trump’s ‘surrealistic statements’. From Al Jazeera’s description of the article on their website: “US president’s latest comments confirm Israel’s wholesale destruction of Gaza is aimed at permanently removing its Palestinian population.” Click here to read the article.
Open Letter to Jason Clare MP: Targeting of Antiracist Academics Evidence of Rising Repression of Dissent
Jason Clare MP Dear Minister Clare, The Jewish Council urges you to reject the coordinated and malicious campaigns by Israel lobby groups to interfere with the academic freedom of Palestinian and First Nations scholars. We write to you in response to the campaigns being run by various Israel lobby groups to silence the voices of…
The Jewish Council condemns US President Trump’s plan to ‘take over’ Gaza
[Image credit] The Jewish Council of Australia strongly condemns Donald Trump’s suggestion the United States will ‘take over’ the Gaza Strip and move Palestinian people elsewhere. We furthermore condemn the cynical use of humanitarian language by Trump to justify his egregious plan. This language adds insult to injury given the mounting evidence collected by human…
Max Kaiser appears on SBS’s Weekend One On One podcast about allegations of antisemitism against Elon Musk
Max Kaiser recently appeared on SBS’s Weekend One On One podcast about antisemitism and far-right extremists. From SBS’s description of this podcast episode: “Amid a rise in antisemitic incident around the world, a wave of scrutiny has fallen at the feet of a somewhat unlikely target – the richest man in the world – Elon…
Max Kaiser speaks to ABC, CNN and Ten News about the recent series of antisemitic attacks
Max Kaiser recently spoke to a range of media outlets about the series of antisemitic attacks. Click here to listen to the ABC PM segment on the ABC’s website. Click here to read the CNN article. Click here to watch the Ten News appearance on Instagram.
Watch the first episode of The Palestine Laboratory, a documentary from Advisory Member Antony Lowenstein
You can find the first episode of Antony Lowenstein’s documentary on Al Jazeera’s YouTube channel. Click here to watch it or use the embedded player below:
Sarah Schwartz appears on ABC News Breakfast to talk about the continued antisemitic attacks in Australia
Sarah Schwartz recently appeared on ABC News Breakfast to talk about the continued antisemitic attacks in Australia. Click here to watch the segment on the ABC website.
Crikey and WSWS report on media’s misrepresentations of Sarah Schwartz
Crikey recently reported on the media’s misrepresentation of Sarah’s speech, and WSWS (World Socialist Web Site) reported on the Murdoch media’s witchhunt of Sarah. An excerpt from Crikey’s article: “After calling out Peter Dutton’s use of Australian Jews for his own political purposes, Sarah Schwartz has faced a campaign of demonisation.” Click here to read…
Read Sarah Schwartz’s article in the Guardian and speech in full – when Peter Dutton and the Coalition use the Jewish community as political footballs it makes all of us less safe
Dear supporters, Today, our Executive Officer Sarah Schwartz published this article in the Guardian, about how Peter Dutton and the Coalition use the Jewish community as political footballs, and how this makes all of us less safe. The article is a version of Sarah’s speech at a pre-symposium comedy debate to a QUT anti-racism conference,…
Offensive smear campaign by the Murdoch Press against the Jewish Council’s anti-racism work and Sarah Schwartz
Dear supporters, Today marks 237 years since the commencement of the violent dispossession of First Nations peoples from this land. It represents a day of mourning and protest. We are reluctant to email you about anything other than this today, but we feel it is important to keep you informed about the vicious and escalating…
BBC cites Jewish Council in story about the Australian police’s investigation about whether antisemitic attacks are being funded overseas
The Jewish Council has recently spoken to the BBC for a story about the Australian police’s investigation into the recent series of antisemitic attacks. Click here to read the story.
Sarah Schwartz speaks to The Guardian about the recent antisemitic attacks in Sydney
Sarah Schwartz recently spoke to The Guardian about the recent antisemitic attacks in Sydney. An excerpt from Sarah’s response quoted in the article: “We need to see a really principled anti-racism response that addresses the root cause of this violence”. Click here to read the article.
