LinkedIn blots out comments on Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

LinkedIn operating systems have seemingly enabled 10 of my published comments to be erased during a discussion with a Geopolitical Risk Analyst requesting his assessment of the threat to world peace posed by the continuing failure of the United Nations (UN) to acknowledge the existence of the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution published on 8 June 2022. Read more

The real meaning of ‘pro-Palestinian’

An anti-Israel group called Palestinian Solidarity Forum (PSF) on March 20 invited officials from the Iranian-backed Palestinian terror groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad to speak at an event at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Read more

Saving Israel’s Democracy: Nirit Eylon talks with Henry Greener

Nirit Eylon is a spokesperson for Saving Israel’s Democracy’, a group of people organising a regular Rally at Caulfield Park to demonstrate against proposed judiciary reforms by the recently elected coalition in Israel led by Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. Read more

Firstborn

I am a firstborn male. And I fast on the eve of Pesach because all the Egyptian firstborns were struck down by the tenth plague and I (metaphorically) survived! Read more

The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? A Sydney theatre review by Alex First

Melbourne-based, I flew to Sydney to catch up on five shows over five nights. One I was keen to see was The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? Read more

Appalling

The New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs (and Trade) has issued a statement that they are “appalled” at the assertion by Israel’s Finance Minister that today’s Palestinians are fakers. Read more

Shabbat Tsav and Shabbat HaGadol: The Big One

The Shabbat before Pesach is always called Shabbat HaGadol. The Great or Major Shabbat. Although the section we will read is Tsav (Leviticus Chapter 6-8:36). Read more

Meet Luke Gabbedy…and see him perform in Madama Butterfly

The Handa Opera’s Madama Butterfly is currently nightly on Sydney Harbour, necessitating two casts to perform on alternative evenings. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: The Hon. Edward Aaron Cohen

It would be interesting to know which was the most popular Jewish family name in Australia from convict times to today.  A number of stories have been written about ‘Cohens’ – many are related. Read more

‘The system has failed:’ Antisemitism flourishes in France

Five years ago, an 85-year-old survivor of the Holocaust, Mireille Knoll, was brutally murdered in her apartment in Paris by two intruders, one of whom was a neighbour she had known since his childhood. Read more

Where did the accusation that Jews used Christian blood to make wine originate?

Ask the rabbi. Read more

Madama Butterfly: An opera review by Murray Dahm

This Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour (HOSH) production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly was first seen in 2014 and here makes its triumphant return ‘home.’ Read more

EU fuels Jew-hatred that Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine can end

The European Union’s institutionalised Jew-hatred was on full show when the High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy since 2019 – Josep Borrell – took the opportunity to castigate the Jewish State and one of its Ministers during a press conference. Read more

On the other hand

It is not hard to discern that Passover is fast approaching. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon: New friends with benefits Read more

Israel’s post-democracy moment

The political crisis in Israel over the government’s judicial reforms has deepened. Read more

L’Chaim – To Life: Martin Imber

Training my neuroplastic brain Read more

Passover or Passout?

Moses had trouble understanding Rebbi Akivah who lived about a thousand years later (according to the Talmud). Read more

March Madness

As explained by Wikipedia, “mad as a March hare” is a common British English phrase, both today and in Lewis Carroll’s time in the 1800s. Read more

Trust is a key factor here

The Israeli government’s proposed judicial reforms continue to advance, at the same time as being unilaterally modified by the government itself. Read more

Shabbat Vayikra: Sacrifices

At this time of the year, the Torah readings are all to do with sacrifices. I shall confess that the thought of killing animals does not fill me with any great enthusiasm. Read more

Anti-reform protests reveal police double standards

What began as Saturday evening mass protests against the government’s judicial reform program have morphed into “days of disruption” and increasingly extreme behaviour as demonstrators block highways, clash with police, blockade Knesset members in their homes, refuse to show up for reserve duty, and, in one instance, barricade the prime minister’s wife in a hair salon. Read more

Tackling our extremism problem

The sight on the steps of the Victorian Parliament on Saturday, black clad neo-Nazis throwing Hitler salutes over and over for half an hour, as Victoria Police stop by protecting them from on lookers, has shocked the Jewish community. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Hyman Goldstein

With NSW heading for the polls this weekend, it is fitting that this week’s story is about the first Jewish MP to represent the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. Read more

Hakoah AGM: J-Wire Photogallery

Did you attend the Hakoah AGM in Sydney? Read more

UIA VIC Major Donors: Photogallery

Were you at this event. Former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett was. Read more

UIA Melbourne Gala event: Photogallery

Were you at this event? Read more

Is a shul with more than 500 members is too big?

Ask the rabbi. Read more

Singaporean Academy brings Israeli martial art KAPAP to Perth

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MBS: Is Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution dead or alive?

Following the announcement that Saudi Arabia and Iran intend resuming diplomatic relations within the next two months – Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince and Prime Minister – Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) – needs to urgently answer this one question: “Is the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution published on 8 June 2022 by your confidant Ali Shihabi dead – or is it still alive?” Read more

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