Fairfax and the current situation in Gaza
March 13, 2012 by Emily Gian
Late on Friday afternoon, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) targeted two members of the Palestinian terrorist organization the Popular Resistance Committee in the Gaza Strip…writes Emily Gian. Read more
Despotism
February 21, 2012 by Emily Gian
Earlier this month, the noted American commentator and jurist Alan Dershowitz wrote a thought provoking article entitled ‘How the Hard Left, By Focusing Only on Israel, Encouraged Arab Despotism’…writes Emily Gian. Read more
No Stone Left Unpunished
January 31, 2012 by Emily Gian
An article appeared in last Thursday’s Melbourne Age entitled ‘No stone left unpunished’. Penned by Harriet Sherwood of The Guardian, it told the story of Palestinian children detained by Israeli authorities for committing crimes such as “throwing stones at soldiers or settlers… flinging petrol bombs… [or] more serious offenses such as links to militant organisations or using weapons”…writes Emily Gian. Read more
Article Heralds Age-old Problem
January 17, 2012 by Emily Gian
The Melbourne Age today carries a front page article by Leesha McKenny entitled ‘Jewish outcry on SBS series’ about a complaint to the SBS Ombudsman lodged by The Executive Council of Australian Jewry about the screening of the BBC drama series The Promise which aired at the end of last year…writes Emily Gian. Read more
That was the year that was….in Israel
December 23, 2011 by Emily Gian
It has been a really big year of highs and lows for Israel, so I thought I would take this time to reflect on the year that was in Israel…writes Emily Gian. Read more
Israel@Twitter
December 6, 2011 by Emily Gian
I am not sure how many of our J-Wire readers are engaged in social media but I am still trying to understand the world of Twitter and other such platforms…writes Emily Gian. Read more
UN Resolution 181 – 64 years on
November 30, 2011 by Emily Gian
Yesterday marked 64 years since the passing of UN Resolution 181 which called for the Partition of Palestine into a Jewish State and an Arab State (29 November, 1947)…writes Emily Gian. Read more
Newspaper of the Year?
November 17, 2011 by Emily Gian
When I opened the copy of today’s Melbourne Age that sat on my desk this morning, I noticed for the first time that the newspaper carries the tagline “Newspaper of the Year”…writes Emily Gian. Read more
Opposing Op-Eds
October 25, 2011 by Emily Gian
Today’s Age carries an Op-Ed by the broadsheet’s foreign news editor, Maher Mughrabi entitled ‘Prisoner swap unequal to task’ about the deal to release Gilad Shalit…writes Emily Gian. Read more
Meanwhile, in Melbourne
October 19, 2011 by Emily Gian
A capacity crowd of well over 400 people packed into the Auditorium at Beth Weizmann to watch Gilad receive his freedom. Read more
Gilad on his way home?
October 12, 2011 by Emily Gian
“Wake up, Gilad is coming home”, was the SMS I was woken by this morning. Gilad is coming home… four seemingly simple words, and yet, these words have eluded Gilad Shalit’s loving family and the rest of the world for 1,935 days…writes Emily Gian.
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Emily’s Take
October 7, 2011 by Emily Gian
This week has been a week of extremes in the Israeli press. Extreme highs, extreme lows, extreme people…writes Emily Gian. Read more
Tale of Two Newspapers: Chapter Two
September 26, 2011 by Emily Gian
The Tale of Two Newspapers continues today as our two local broadsheets, the Australian and the Age seek to come to grips in their editorials with what has recently transpired at the United Nations…writes Emily Gian. Read more
Israel and Palestine as seen by Fairfax and News Ltd
September 23, 2011 by Emily Gian
This update might well be called “The UN vote on a Palestinian State: A Tale of Two Newspapers”…writes Emily Gian. Read more
Protests in Israel
August 9, 2011 by Emily Gian
We will not look, we will not notice the details
We will not reach a new country”
These words, by famed Israeli singer Shlomo Artzi, took on a new meaning when sung to a crowd of over 250,000 Israelis, protesting in the streets of Tel Aviv on Saturday evening….writes Emily Gian. Read more
Amos Oz in Melbourne…from Emily Gian
August 4, 2011 by Emily Gian
“The only way to keep a dream in rosy and intact is never to try to live it out”. Thus began the talk my literary idol, Amos Oz, gave to a packed audience at Melbourne Town Hall last night…writes Emily Gian. Read more
Flotilla Update
July 5, 2011 by Emily Gian
Late last week it was reported that one of the ships of Flotilla II, an Irish ship named “Saoirse” (meaning “Freedom”), had been damaged. A statement was issued immediately by Dr. Fintan Lane, the national coordinator for the Irish Ship to Gaza, declaring: “Israel is the only party likely to have carried out this reckless action, and it is important that the Irish government and the executive in Northern Ireland insist that those who ordered this act of international terrorism be brought to justice. This was carried out in a Turkish town and shows no respect for Turkish sovereignty and international law”. Read more
Gaza Flotilla – Crisis or not?
July 1, 2011 by Emily Gian
2011 – Another Flotilla is on the way, but is there a humanitarian crisis in Gaza? Read more
McGeough gets New Award from Honest Reporting
December 23, 2010 by Emily Gian
Emily Chrapot reports: It was only two weeks ago that Paul McGeough of Fairfax Media was presented with what used to be a prestigious award – a Walkley.
The award was for a piece he wrote entitled ‘Prayers, tear gas and terror’, which appeared in the Melbourne Age and the Sydney Morning Herald and was supposedly an eye-witness account of the flotilla incident of late May. Read more
The Good Weekend and Gaza
November 14, 2010 by Emily Gian
Last weekend, the Good Weekend magazine from the Age published a six page spread entitled ‘Project: Gaza’ by Paul McGeough. The article focused on six activists involved in the Free Gaza Movement, how they came to be involved and their involvement with the flotillas, in particular, the fleet that was involved in clashes with the IDF in late May. Read more
