Henry Benjamin
By Henry Benjamin
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Breaking News New Zealand: UN Resolution Consistent With Country’s Policy on Settlements
SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) — The recent passing of an anti-settlements resolution in the United Nations “stands in sharp contrast to the condemnation and accusations that have dominated subsequent commentary from Israel and that country’s supporters,” New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCullay said in an Op-Ed in a major daily newspaper. New Zealand is one of…
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Breaking News New Zealand Offices Hit With ‘Jew Hater’ Graffiti Over Support for UN Resolution on Israel
(JTA) — New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully’s North Shore office in Auckland was vandalized with pro-Jewish graffiti, believed to be in response to New Zealand’s co-sponsoring of an anti-settlement resolution at the United Nations. In recent years incidents of anti-Semitic vandalism have been common in New Zealand. On Wednesday, however, the trend of anti-Semitic…
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Breaking News Australian Ex-Premier Wants Embassy Moved to Jerusalem
SYDNEY (JTA) — Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has called on his country to cut its $40 million aid to the Palestinian Authority and to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump moves his country’s embassy. Abbott wrote in the weekly edition of The Spectator magazine: “In discussions…
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Breaking News Australia Prime Minister Makes Suprise Synagogue Visit
SYDNEY (JTA) — Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull paid an unexpected visit to Sydney’s Central Synagogue to join its Friday night service and menorah lighting, telling the congregation that Australia stands “shoulder to shoulder” with Israel. Turnbull called the synagogue’s rabbi, Levi Wolff, Friday afternoon in honor of Hanukkah. During the call, Wolff, invited Turnbull to attend…
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Breaking News Australia Says Jewish Community ‘Discouraged’ Reporting Child Sex Abuse
SYNDEY — An Australian government report found that some members of the Jewish community had been “discouraged from reporting” allegations of child sexual abuse against employees of two yeshivas. The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse published its report Tuesday on the response of Yeshiva Bondi and Yeshivah Melbourne to allegations…
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Breaking News Australian Greens Leader Attacks Shimon Peres for Spearheading Nuclear Program
SYDNEY — The leader of the Australian Greens party was slammed by fellow lawmakers and a Jewish group for attacking the late Shimon Peres in a speech in the Senate. Speaking on Oct. 13, two weeks after the former Israeli president died at 93, Sen. Richard Di Natale sought to counter depictions of Peres as a statesman and…
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Breaking News Holocaust Denial Leaflets Distributed on 3 Australian Campuses
SYDNEY — Leaflets distributed at Australian universities claiming that the Holocaust never happened have been referred to university authorities for investigation and led to calls for tougher action against racism on university campuses. Since February hundreds of the leaflets have been left on campuses in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra. The leaflets assert that the Nazi…
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