In Defence of Whataboutery
August 7, 2014 by Rabbi James Kennard
“Whataboutery” for those who are blissfully unaware, is the dismissive response given by anti-Israel campaigners when they are accused of applying double standards to Israel. Read more
Apologies for cartoons…writes Rabbi James Kennard
July 31, 2014 by Rabbi James Kennard
In December 2012, during a previous period of conflict between Israel and Hamas, Melbourne’s premier newspaper The Age published a cartoon by Michael Leunig. It featured little more than (yet another) re-working of the famous lines by Pastor Martin Niemöller, bewailing the inaction of the bystanders during the Holocaust (“first they came for the Socialists and I did not speak out . . . then they came for the Jews . . .”).
