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02 Jan

Kingdom coming

09/01/2025
By Brian McKinlay
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This article is part of our ‘Timeless Pieces’ series of summer reading, featuring articles from our former hardcopy Australian Rational...

29 Sep

Law & Politics

The ‘new’ antisemitism conflates criticism of Israel with prejudice against Jews

29/09/2024
By Dennis Altman
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Since the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel nearly a year ago, and the subsequent ongoing war on Gaza, there have been widespread claim...

11 May

Law & Politics

Antisemitism: No echo of the past in current troubles

11/05/2024
By Michael Liffman
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I have been re-reading the unbearably heart-rending letters sent from my parents in Germany and Austria to their more fortunate family ...

11 Mar

Letters to the Editor

People with ‘barrow to push’ on child transgenderism should butt out

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05 Feb

Letters to the Editor

Criticism of Israel’s militarism is not antisemitism

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31 Jan

Law & Politics

If you want peace in Palestine, don’t start from here!

01/02/2024
By Ian Robinson
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There is an oft-told joke about someone lost in a rural area who finally encounters a local and requests directions to their destinatio...

08 Dec

Letters to the Editor

The case for a new form of censorship

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23 Nov

Law & Politics

Are we exaggerating the extent of antisemitism?

23/11/2023
By Michael Liffman
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As a secular Jew whose parents were forever grateful for the refuge they found in Australia from Nazi Germany in 1939, I have always th...

02 Nov

Letters to the Editor

Israel conflict: The need for a fair political solution

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30 Oct

Ethics & Religion

Truth and consequences in a world of liars

30/10/2023
By Geoffrey Barker
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The world watches horrified as bombs and rockets kill thousands and reduce Ukraine and Gaza to smoking rubble. Australians agonise over...

27 Oct

Law & Politics

Thinking clearly about the Gaza problem

27/10/2023
By Paul Monk
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Truth, an old saying has it, is the first casualty in war. Why would that be? Because the universal tendency of human beings to partial...

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