Michael Danby battles the media

“If in the past year you didn’t CRY OUT when thousands of protesters were killed and injured by Turkey, Egypt and Libya, when more victims than ever were hanged by Iran, women and children in Afghanistan were bombed, whole communities were massacred in South Sudan, 1800 Palestinians were starved and murdered by Assad (at the Yamouk camp) in Syria, hundreds in Pakistan were killed by jihadist terror attacks, 10,000 Iraqis were killed by terrorists, villagers were slaughtered in Nigeria, but you ONLY cry out for GAZA, then you are not pro HUMAN RIGHTS, you are only ANTI-ISRAEL.”

 — Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch, July 15, 2014 Read more

My Deutschland 2014 Diary…writes Michael Danby

The Greeks may fear and loathe Frankfurt as a crass citadel of German capitalism. Not me. Read more

St Kilda’s Own Soviet Hero of the ‘Great Patriotic War’…from Michael Danby

Ios Teper stopped wandering into my office just 2 years ago. He died last week in the Montefiore Homes at the age of 98. Read more

Prisoner “X” and the effect on Jewish Australians

I wanted to raise some strong responses to the charges of ‘Dual Loyalty’ made against the Australian Jewish community. For perhaps the most ugly outcome of the tragedy of Prisoner X – Ben Zygier affair is the exploitation of this issue by the usual suspects to denigrate Israel and the Australian Jewish community…writes Michael Danby. Read more

Carr and the UN abstention: Danby tells all

An edited op-ed on Bob Carr and the abstention by Federal Labor Michael Danby appeared in sections of the media today. J-Wire publishes the full piece. Read more

Danby Red over Greens

Yesterday in the Senate, Greens leader Christine Milne moved an entirely one-sided motion on the missile attacks on Southern Israel. I am attaching a copy of that motion. My comments in response, released to the media and reported in Sydney’s Daily Telegraph are below:….writes Michael Danby Read more

Two ALP issues

Labor stalwart Michael Danby updates J-Wire on the Government support for World Vision which in turn is supporting an an alleged an anti-Israel NGO and the motion against BDS in Parliament last week…. Read more

Australia – What a Country

In his Shabbat droscha (sermon) at Elwood Shule last week, Rabbi Mordechai Gutnick said it was permissible to ask if changes to the national leadership were not just good for Australia, but whether it impacted on the Australian Jewish community…writes Michael Danby. Read more

Sanctions Biting on Iranian Regime

We have all met “truthers”. You know the kind of conspiracy theorist who knows every evil event was concocted at a secret military facility in the basement at Fort Dix, Georgia or some such place. Read more

From Michael Danby’s Diary

Two dates for Melbourne readers. Read more

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