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Radio Gaga

The Spectator

A series of programs on ABC Radio National, produced by a long-standing anti-Israel activist, has undermined the objectivity of the national broadcaster and exposed serious failings in its editorial process.

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Palestinian soccer delegation's own goal

Australian Jewish News

On Tuesday night, the ABC’s Foreign Correspondent program aired a documentary film, Pitch Battle, which chronicled the journey of the Palestine football team to the 2015 Asian Cup in Australia.

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Activists corrupt noble principles in defence of Lynch

The Australian

The defence of Jake Lynch and the students who stormed the lecture theatre at the University of Sydney during a talk by Colonel Richard Kemp, has been speciously framed as a struggle for the right of free speech and dissent.

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Netanyahu's Victory Interpreted

ABC Religion & Ethics

When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu effectively dissolved Parliament and called for fresh elections just 21 months into his four-year term, he said he wanted "a clear mandate to lead Israel" and a more cohesive coalition with which to govern.

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Can the Jews of Europe be saved?

ABC Religion & Ethics

The Jewish community of Denmark has nowburied its dead. The latest lethal antisemitic incident in Europe followed the pattern set in Paris a month earlier.

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Slaughter in a Synagogue

ABC Religion & Ethics

The medieval Arab geographer al-Muqaddasi wrote of Jerusalem, "it is a golden goblet full of scorpions." On Tuesday, 18 November 2014, we learnt just what he meant. A sacred site in the holiest of cities was drenched with the blood of pious men.

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Melissa Parke's appalling support for BDS

Canberra Times

Perhaps it was the pig's head placed in the kosher section of a Johannesburg supermarket by anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions activists last week.

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Language and law in Israel's war against Hamas

Sydney Morning Herald

In armed conflict, fact and truth are often trumped by emotion. Sober analysis gives way to crude comparisons of body counts that disregard the fighting methods of the combatants or their differing regard for human life.

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