The following article has been published in J-Wire by Julie Nathan.
18th June 2014 by Peter Wertheim and Alex Ryvchin It is one of those ironies of history that the controversy surrounding the federal government’s refusal to label any part of Jerusalem as "occupied" by Israel broke in the media on June 5th, the anniversary of the start of the Six Day War in 1967.
6th June 2014 The Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) has defended the Federal government’s statement that "the description of East Jerusalem as Occupied East Jerusalem is a term freighted with pejorative implications, which is neither appropriate nor useful.” The Executive Director of the ECAJ, Peter Wertheim, said: The Federal government is simply being realistic.
28th May 2014 Representatives of the Indigenous, Greek, Jewish, Chinese, Arab and Korean communities met on Monday and Tuesday with more than 80 members of the federal parliament from the Coalition, Labor, the Greens and Independents to express their strong opposition to the government's plans to weaken the existing Federal law against racial vilification.
This piece appeared in Adelaide's Sunday Mail on 26th May 2014 by Peter Wertheim Peter Goers’ column in last week’s Sunday Mail titled “Why I weep: the 720km wall, a symbol of apartheid” appeals to the emotions, and to outdated anti-Jewish religious motifs, but ignores the facts.
- an ECAJ publication by Peter Wertheim and Alex Ryvchin
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