Comments on: On the fringe

By: Jan Poddebsky

Jan Poddebsky — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 16:37:08 +0000

I have just discovered the joys of Michael Bull, oops sorry Brull, writing in New Matilda. He doesn’t like lots of things. Predictably Israel. But he doesn’t like Anzac Day either. And Liberals just cannot be trusted. He does like the No War sign painted on the Opera House by a couple of Brits who still roam the world teaching others good manners. He could send a post card of that picture to the Saudis and to ISIS and to the Eritreans but they probably won’t take much notice. And the Taliban, well they might think the Opera House is a modern version of Buddhist statues and demolish it. But even more improbably he might suggest that if we just stop meddling in their affairs they will settle down and be nice to each other. Oops sorry, it must be racist to expect others to conform to our views of what is nice. And why are all those people risking their lives trying to get into the West anyway?

By: Jan Poddebsky

Jan Poddebsky — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 16:00:35 +0000

If you go to the website for Independent Jews bla bla you will find a quote from Slezak which states that it is OUTRAGEOUS for people to decide what others may hear. Of course he is frothing at the mouth about his exclusion from Limmud Oz this year. His epilepsy does not extend to the Colonel Kemp lecture when his buddies stormtrooped their way into the lecture room at Sydney Uni expressly to decide what the audience was allowed to hear.

By: Jan Poddebsky

Jan Poddebsky — Sat, 06 Jun 2015 09:11:10 +0000

In reply to PHIL LEVY. I am reconsidering my boycott. It might be more fun 'disrupting' the hate fest and calling the disruption 'free speech' a la Spence. Riemer says that's OK. Just check out New Matildas and he tells you in 50000 words why you have a moral duty to disrupt. Let's think up an appropriate chant and bring your megaphones!!

By: Otto Waldmann

Otto Waldmann — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 05:39:29 +0000

Fundamentally impervious to reason, being humiliated once again in public in front of the Jewish Community by entering through the back door public attention (sic) is NOTHING for this bunch of losers.
We shall compare numbers and quality of attendance, mind you ,FREE in their case.
Pity I wont be there, still stuff to clear up for Europe, but I would have ventured a lecture on the “efficiency” of the Slezak-Porzsolt syndrome/mental cases.

By: Leon Poddebsky

Leon Poddebsky — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 02:02:01 +0000

And of course this assembly of angels will condemn the ethnic cleansing perpetrated by Arabs in 1948, when they ethnically cleansed the Jews out of Judea / Samaria (“the West Bank”) and also from the Gaza Strip.

Also, while standing on land that was ethnically cleansed and illegally occupied by Europeans, will these models of morality “acknowledge the original owners of the land we stand on?”

By: Leon Poddebsky

Leon Poddebsky — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 23:28:49 +0000

In reply to Paul Winter. Paul, these are the heirs of those other fringe dwellers "of Jewish background," such as Pablo Christiani, Karl Marx, Bruno Kreisky, Isaac Deutscher et al. Hatred of the House of Israel coursed through their blood.

By: Leon Poddebsky

Leon Poddebsky — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 23:22:51 +0000

It is to be hoped that this conclave will discuss the illegal occupation / squatting by Arabs on Jewish land, that has been ongoing since British Mandatory times, but is rampant even today.
A related matter is the rampant illegal construction by Arabs in Israel today.
The NGO, Regavim, has documented this sort of illegal Arab activity that is proceeding currently with the zealous collaboration of the European Union.

I am sure that this coterie of conscience, this assembly of saints, will lend its morality and righteousness to a denunciation of such illegal and immoral acts.
By the way, will Bob Carr or Hanan Ashrawi be delivering the keynote address?

By: Jan Poddebsky

Jan Poddebsky — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 22:05:35 +0000

In reply to Michelle Berkon. You knew that Limmud was a trademark and yet you went ahead anyway. Now you complain that invoking the possibility of legal action against your use is a threat. That has the same flavour as publically bleating that your irresistable offers to speak to the Limmud community were rudely denied. 'Censorship in the Jewish community' the newspapers blazed under a photo of Slezak, the new prophet. In both instances your purpose is to discredit rather than enhance this community. Your knickers are transparent.

By: Otto Waldmann

Otto Waldmann — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 14:54:02 +0000

In reply to Michelle Berkon. Don't worry love, we know too well what kinda problems yourse guys DO have...

By: Jan Poddebsky

Jan Poddebsky — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 10:13:14 +0000

Interesting! A student with Jewish ‘fringes’ and a kipa was saluted by someone at a Sydney Uni party with ‘Heil Hitler’ thanks to the sterling efforts of the BDS campaign and it apologists, the Lynches and the Riemers and the Porzolts and the Slezaks. This is the new norm on campus. Thanks guys on behalf of the community and its children. I think we got your message.