Alex Ryvchin, Author at J-Wire

Remembrance Through Art: Honouring the Babi Yar Massacres

Alex Ryvchin — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 05:33:09 +0000

For many years, no one spoke about Babi Yar. The Holocaust was remembered largely through the prism of Auschwitz, the slaughterhouse of a million Jews and the epitome of industrialised death. Kristallnacht, the other major focus of Holocaust commemoration represented the beginning of the end.

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Activists corrupt noble principles in defence of Lynch

Alex Ryvchin — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 01:12:15 +0000

The defence of Jake Lynch and the students who stormed the lecture theatre at the University of Sydney during a talk by Colonel Richard Kemp, has been speciously framed as a struggle for the right of free speech and dissent.

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Attacking the Souls of a People: The Global Resurgence of Anti-Semitism

Alex Ryvchin — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 08:14:23 +0000

On July 25, as Israel’s war with Hamas raged, my niece, who is nearly 5 years of age, arrived at her Jewish day school in Perth to find the words “Zionist scum” daubed on the outer walls of the school.

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For the sake of human rights, BDS must end its dishonesty…writes Alex Ryvchin

Alex Ryvchin — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 02:51:59 +0000

When Dr Norman Finkelstein, an icon of the anti-Israel movement, blasted the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign as a “duplicitous, disingenuous cult,” his words were met with a great sense of betrayal among the campaign’s adherents. After all, Finkelstein was once revered as a veteran campaigner who among many other things, called Israel a “satanic state.”

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Why Australia is right to challenge the UN’s anti-Israel bias…writes Alex Ryvchin

Alex Ryvchin — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 00:01:31 +0000

The Government’s decision to revert to Howard-era voting patterns on Israel at the United Nations General Assembly has been criticised as a betrayal of the Palestinians.

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