Getting antisemitism wrong at the United Nations…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org

You have to hand it to the United Nations, I guess. It’s hard to think of another body that would organise a special meeting on the subject of rising antisemitism with anti-Semites not just in attendance, but making speeches as well. Read more

Can the political left tackle antisemitism?…asks Ben Cohen

While I’ve never been a big fan of celebrity interventions in politics, I will concede that, on occasion, a big-screen actor or a rock star will achieve the kind of impact that mere mortals can only dream about. Read more

Diaspora Jews a soft target…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org

Next week, the opera “The Death of Klinghoffer” opens in New York. Read more

Nike yet to address video ad with antisemitic overtones

After initially raising concern on the issue this summer, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is continuing to press the Nike footwear and apparel giant to remedy its promotion of a pre-Soccer World Cup animated video whose content has what critics call antisemitic overtones. Read more

Uniting Church and antisemitism

Rev. Dr Brian Brown, Moderator of the Uniting Church in Australia, Synod of NSW and the ACT has commented in response to recent incidents of racism towards the Sydney Jewish community. Read more

Are circumstances getting worse for Jews and Israel?…asks Ben Cohen

“That February, in Sarcelles, flaming objects were thrown into the Tiferet Israel School, destroying the building. In April, at Garges-les-Gonesse, firebombs were hurled at the synagogue. From Nice to Marseille, antisemitic mail was delivered. In the offices of CRIF, located in the Fifth Arrondissement several blocks from the popular food market on the Rue Mouffetard, an envelope arrived filled with white powder and a message: ‘The biological war against the Jewish lobby has begun.’”

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Rally anti-Israel or antisemitic

Chairman of the Anti-Defamation Commission Dr Dvir Abramovich, has expressed concern over the motives behind the recent pro-Palestinian rally held in Sydney. Read more

SA parliamentarians join fight against antisemitism

A private members motion urging South Australian parliamentarians to join a global movement against antisemitism has been passed unanimously. Read more

Anti-Semitism around the world

The U.S. based Anti-Defamation League has surveyed antisemitism in 100 countries around the world…and Australia and New Zealand as a region have been  found to have the lowest rate globally. Read more

Amnesty Oz hosts Antisemitism…writes Julie Nathan

The Facebook page of Amnesty International Australia (AIA), an organisation which professes support for human rights, has attracted a spate of anti-Jewish comments in response to a posted story about Palestinians in a West Bank village. The same page also attracted some anti-Muslim and anti-Arab comments in response. Read more

Bondi: Bipartisan support from Macquarie Street

NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell and Minister for Citizenship and Communities Victor Dominello have condemned what appears to have been an antisemitic attack in Sydney’s Bondi late in Friday night…with opposition leader John Robertson offering bipartisan support to the community. Read more

Israel adds her voice

Israel’s Minister for Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs Naftali Bennett has voiced the State of Israel’s solidarity with the Australian Jewish community on Sunday in response to the act of violence against  five Jews in Sydney on Friday night. Read more

“The great patrimony we share with the Jewish people”

The Archbishop of Sydney Cardinal George Pell has condemned “displays of antisemitism when delivering a lecture on religious freedom. Read more

Greens say “No Thank You” to signing the London Declaration

Greens MPs John Kaye and David Shoebridge said they won’t sign the London Declaration into Combatting Anti-Semitism even though it “contains a number of laudable commitments to stamp out any resurgence of hatred against a people who have historically suffered more than most.” Read more

A Global Tsunami of Anti-Semitism…writes Isi Leibler

Participants at the fourth conference of the Global Forum for Combating antisemitism, held under the auspices of the Foreign Ministry this week in Jerusalem, will be provided with data highlighting the accelerated global erosion of the status of Jews and Israel. Read more

Campus virus – a worldwide pandemic…writes Michael Kuttner

During the waning years of the Weimar Republic in the early 1930’s, my late father was a student at the university in Karlsruhe, Southern Germany. Read more

Pyne Signs

Liberal MP Christopher Pyne, a longstanding friend of Israel and the Jewish community, has signed the London Agreement. Read more

Documentary in the Making…and it Needs Your Help

Two highly-respected members of the Australian film industry have joined forces to produce a documentary on how Lithuania is rewriting the history of the Holocaust.
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Facebook asked to treat Holocaust Denial as Incitement to Hatred

The Online Antisemitism Working Group of the Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism has called on Facebook to treat Holocaust denial as incitement to hatred.  Read more

The Age online says sorry online

Following the recent forged Australian passports affair which resulted in the expulsion from Australia  of an Israeli diplomat, a member of the Canberra community complained to ACMA [the Australian  Communications and Media Authority] about hateful and anti-Semtic comments posted on The Age’s web site. Read more

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