3rd March 2014 by Peter Wertheim Contrary to the assertions of Professor James Allan, (‘These elitist hate-speech laws erode democracy’, Sydney Morning Herald, March 3), there was no equivalent of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act in the Weimar Germany.
The following article has been published in The Australian by Julie Nathan.
24th January 2014 by Peter Wertheim and Alex Ryvchin With her Israeli settlements comments, Julie Bishop has tried to avoid acting as judge and jury on the issue.
19th December 2013 Those who would dismiss Australia’s laws prohibiting racial vilification as a mere concession to latter-day political correctness and ‘the culture of complaint’ should remember that such laws were called for by a distinguished Supreme Court judge as far back as 1949.
17th December 2013 by Alexander Ryvchin, Public Affairs Officer, Executive Council of Australian Jewry WHEN Norman Finkelstein, an icon of the anti-Israel movement, blasted the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign as a "duplicitous, disingenuous cult", his words were met with a great sense of betrayal among the campaign's adherents.
18th December 2013 by Julie Nathan, Research Officer, Executive Council of Australian Jewry The Facebook page of Amnesty International Australia (AIA), an organisation which professes support for human rights, has attracted a spate of anti-Jewish comments in response to a posted story about Palestinians in a West Bank village.
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