from the river to the sea Archives – J-Wire https://www.jwire.com.au/tag/from-the-river-to-the-sea/ Australia, NZ and worldwide Jewish news that matters Wed, 18 Feb 2026 11:53:21 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 6446428 Pro-Palestine slogans to be banned in nation-first move https://www.jwire.com.au/pro-palestine-slogans-to-be-banned-in-nation-first-move/ https://www.jwire.com.au/pro-palestine-slogans-to-be-banned-in-nation-first-move/#comments Sun, 08 Feb 2026 06:07:18 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=177428 Popular pro-Palestinian slogans will be outlawed as one state introduces sweeping legislation to crack down on hate speech and antisemitism. A controversial slogan calling for Palestinian liberation will be outlawed in one state in an Australia-first move that forms part of sweeping laws to target anti-Semitism. Queensland will become the first state to expressly ban […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/pro-palestine-slogans-to-be-banned-in-nation-first-move/feed/ 2 177428 Curses – ancient and modern https://www.jwire.com.au/curses-ancient-and-modern/ https://www.jwire.com.au/curses-ancient-and-modern/#respond Fri, 18 Jul 2025 01:41:46 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=171197 It is amazing how very often the weekly Torah portion that we read in Synagogues on Shabbat contains startling messages so highly relevant to our current situation. This past Shabbat, Jewish communities around the world read the portion entitled BALAK. It narrates the frantic efforts of a local warlord and leader to find and convince […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/curses-ancient-and-modern/feed/ 0 171197 Elon Musk: ‘From the River to the Sea’ implies genocide, users will be suspended https://www.jwire.com.au/elon-musk-from-the-river-to-the-sea-implies-genocide-users-will-be-suspended/ https://www.jwire.com.au/elon-musk-from-the-river-to-the-sea-implies-genocide-users-will-be-suspended/#respond Sun, 19 Nov 2023 05:09:59 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=152938 Elon Musk, owner of X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, said on Friday that people using terms such as “from the river to the sea” and “decolonization” would have their accounts suspended. “As I said earlier this week, ‘decolonization’, ‘from the river to the sea’ and similar euphemisms necessarily imply genocide,” the […]

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