MELBOURNE6–16°C VIC News Furore over anti-Semitic posts on VCE discussion page June 8, 2016 4:43pm Kara Irving Herald Sun Anti-Semitic comments were posted on a popular VCE Facebook page. JEWISH students continue to be ridiculed on a popular VCE social media page — just months after the site was slammed for posting anti-Semitic content. A…
Most Victorians would agree that VCE texts should promote understanding of difficult and thorny issues, foster critical thinking and cultivate “democratic and community values”. They would also agree that the VCE system should never be appropriated as a tool to push a political agenda into the mainstream. And so, when the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission,…
Question: What do George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Tony Abbott, Benjamin Netanyahu, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Campbell Newman, Taylor Swift, Obamacare, abortion, gun control, stem cell research, animal rights, Australia’s immigration policies and detention camps, have in common? Answer: they have all been compared to Hitler or have been Nazified.It is the mother of…
Rabbi Abraham Cooper and Dr Dvir Abramovich In August 2001, representing the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, I was a spokesman for Jewish groups at the historic United Nations World Conference Against Racism in South Africa. Historic because it was the first major human rights conclave convened in Africa. Historic too, because it degenerated into the worst…
