MEDIA RELEASE 3 MARCH, 2010
Today is the national launch of a prominent new Australian initiative that rejects Israel’s automatic right of return for Jews across the world.
Following a recent similar project in the US, 35 distinguished Australian Jews have signed a petition that indicates growing dissent from Zionist policies and dispossession of Palestinian land.
The ongoing occupation of Palestine, the siege on Gaza, the botched Mossad hit in Dubai and violence against Palestinians is encouraging a sea-change in global Jewish opinion towards the state of Israel.
Some of the key signatories include world-renowned ethicist Peter Singer, actor Miriam Margolyes, legendary feminist campaigner Eva Cox, La Trobe University’s Dennis Altman, Monash University’s Andrew Benjamin, Sydney University’s David Goodman and John Docker, legal scholar GJ Lindell, best-selling author and journalist Antony Loewenstein, writers Susan Varga and Sara Dowse, ANU’s Ned Curthoys and many others.
This statement is a direct challenge to the Rudd government’s closeness to Israel and plea for a more balanced approach to the Middle East question
Antony Loewenstein
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Is right of return for both Palestinians and Jews a good compromize?
ReplyDeleteMany foreigners hate Jews, especially Europeans. You never know when they might try another holocaust. If they do; then the Jews need a safe place to go. Those places could be India (a nonracist country) or the US.
Many Jews want Israel to remain a safe haven of last resort in the event of another holocaust.
Similarly Palestinians who live in America, Europe, Australia, Iraq, the Gulf, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, and other countries should have the right to move to Israel.
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ReplyDeleteRight of return after 2000 years for people who's only connection to the Hebrews of old is mere religion? Did you know that most (true, not ALL) Jews living today were East Europeans who converted? Did you know that you too can convert tomorrow to Judaism and gain a right of "return" to Israel and live in the West Bank on stolen Palestinian land?
This I haven't heard before. Didn't know that people converted to Judaism in large numbers in Eastern Europe before.
ReplyDeleteI thought converting to Judaism was an involved and difficult process.
TGIA, I see immigration differently than you do . . . perhaps. I think immigrants enrich and improve the country they move to. I think that large numbers of immigrants to Israel will make Israelis richer and more successful. I think that Palestine/Israel would benefit greatly from large numbers of Palestinian and Jewish immigrants. The real challenge will be for the Palestinians and Israelis to persuade immigrants to move to Israel/Palestine.
If the Arabs were smart, they would treat their Palestinian people better; or else the Palestinian people will move away; and the Arab nations would be much poorer and less successful for it.
<span><span><span><span><span>This I haven't heard before. Didn't know that people converted to Judaism in large numbers in Eastern Europe before.</span>
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Really? ...Well that's incredible because you speak with such authority that one has to think you know what you're talking about when you haven't the foggiest idea! Brilliant!!
Besides I don't have a problem with immigrants but not when they settle on frigging STOLEN LANDS IN OCCUPIED TERRITORIES!
As for conversion, Google Khazars and jews...
BTW, here's an example of a converted Jew. Elisabeth Taylor when she married Eddy Fisher, a Jew and one of her first husbands , she converted and being a Jew she owned the "right of return" and could easily settle in the Occupied territories on stolen land, if so she wished, when a Palestinian from outside Israel CANNOT return to his house of which he still has the key!!!</span></span></span></span>
All Catholics should be able to return and claim the Vatican...lol
ReplyDelete<span><span><span>TGIA, I see immigration differently than you do . . . perhaps. I think immigrants enrich and improve the country they move to. I think that large numbers of immigrants to Israel will make Israelis richer and more successful. I think that Palestine/Israel would benefit greatly from large numbers of Palestinian and Jewish immigrants. The real challenge will be for the Palestinians and Israelis to persuade immigrants to move to Israel/Palestine. </span>
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ZID <span>has to apologise for all the lies . NOW </span>
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He NEVER reads anything I post. Only the headlines and he just posts unrelated comments...Rude!
ReplyDeleteI think it's time the whole human race returned to East Africa. It's our right. I'm not holding out for a plot in the Garden of Eden.
ReplyDeleteTGIA, the conversion thing is far from being proven.
ReplyDeleteMolly, here:
ReplyDelete<span>Where do the Ashkenazi Jews come from? </span>
<span>The Thirteenth Tribe</span>
<span></span><span>The Khazar Empire and its Heritage</span>
<span> </span><span> By Arthur Koestler </span>
http://198.62.75.1/www2/koestler/
And here:
ReplyDelete<span>"In this work, the author attempts to prove that the Jews now living in Israel and other places in the world are not at all descendants of the ancient people who inhabited the Kingdom of Judea during the First and Second Temple period. Their origins, according to him, are in varied peoples that converted to Judaism during the course of history, in different corners of the Mediterranean Basin and the adjacent regions. Not only are the North African Jews for the most part descendants of pagans who converted to Judaism, but so are the Jews of Yemen (remnants of the Himyar Kingdom in the Arab Peninsula, who converted to Judaism in the fourth century) and the Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe (refugees from the Kingdom of the Khazars, who converted in the eighth century)." </span>
http://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General/Story9097.html
I often wonder, where do zionists stand on DNA testing?
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