A mass demonstration in Paris on November 12 purported to oppose rising antisemitism, but was, in fact, aimed at crippling the pro Palestine movement. John Mullen explains.
Antisemitism
Palestinian writers Susan Abulhawa and Mohammed El-Kurd have been subjected to聽a storm of false defamation at the聽Adelaide Writers鈥 Festival in South Australia.聽Gideon Polya reports.
Well over 100 academics and other educators, many of them Jewish, have signed an open letter to vice-chancellors opposing聽the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's聽Working Definition of Antisemitism. Renfrey Clarke reports.
The University of Melbourne Student Union recently passed a second motion聽condemning Israeli apartheid and urging support for the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions movement against the 鈥渟ettler colonial apartheid state鈥, after a first had to be rescinded.聽Gideon Polya reports.
Gideon Polya writes that free speech faltered and falsehood triumphed at the University of Melbourne, after the student union was聽forced to withdraw a motion condemning apartheid Israel.
The the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance聽definition blurs the distinction between anti-Jewish racism and criticism of Israel, argues Jake Lynch.
A political response is needed to win people away from those peddling conspiracies, or worse, in the growing so-called 鈥渇reedom鈥 rallies, argues Alex Bainbridge.
The insistence on Israel鈥檚 鈥渞ight to exist鈥 is really a demand for the maintenance of a supremacist 鈥淛ewish鈥欌 state, in which Palestinians are second-class citizens, argues聽Sam Wainwright.
It has long been common to falsely label critics of the Israeli government as 鈥渁ntisemitic鈥. Vivienne Porzsolt聽argues why this is聽a problem.
Renown British filmmaker and social activist Ken Loach is the target of a vicious smear campaign by pro-Zionist forces, writes Gavin Lewis.
At the end of October, Jeremy Corbyn was suspended from the British Labour Party, writes Jonathan Strauss. What Corbyn does next is a topic of discussion in and outside the party.
The British Labour Party took a radical, anti-austerity manifesto to last year鈥檚 general elections and, despite polls and media commentators expecting an unprecedented disaster, came close to winning, denying the ruling Conservatives a majority. Despite this success, attempts to attack and sabotage Labour鈥檚 socialist leader Jeremy Corbyn, and the ranks that support his vision, have continued. 惭颈肠丑补别濒听颁补濒诲别谤产补苍办聽takes a look at what took place and what it means for the party鈥檚 future.
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