How will the Liberal Right deal with the increasingly violent and racist trajectory of the hard-Right? Not well, one suspects on the evidence.
Anti-Semitism
Strange bedfellows: new nexus between Israel and far Right
This is an extract from an essay in On Utøya: Anders Breivik, right terror, racism and Europe.
‘Hipster Hitler’ sends RedBubble’s law firm fleeing
Leading law firm Arnold Bloch Leibler has refused to work again with former client RedBubble over the listing of “Hipster Hitler” merchandise on the art retail website, writes StartupSmart editor Oliver Milman.
Guy Rundle: Bin Laden was executed, that much is obvious
The failure of self-belief in a Western project had spread throughout the West for several decades before 9/11 came along.
Essential: voters still unhappy about carbon price
Recent falls in support for a carbon price and the NBN have reversed in this week’s Essential Report.
Rundle: what’s with Galliano, Gibson ‘n’ Sheen’s anti-Semitism?
How to explain the insistent and free-floating nature of contemporary anti-semitism, the manner in which it ceaselessly returns, attached to very little or nothing at all?
Overland branded biased by Jewish academics
Australian Jewish academics are trying to intimidate one of the country’s leading literary journals.
Is it anti-Semitic to pick on Goldman Sachs?
Is Goldman Sachs a “Jewish” firm? And is it possible to critique the company’s bankers and executives without being accused of descending into stereotypes about Jews and money?
Dear Jon Stewart: change your name
In an open letter to Jon Stewart, Ron Rosenbaum urges the Jewish comedian to change his surname back to ‘Leibowitz’, calling his current moniker a “faint but unnecessary relic of anti-Semitism”.
Wolff: How many more years did Madoff get for being Jewish?
Bernie Madoff is Jewish. Most of the people he ripped off are Jewish. Did it affect his sentencing? Michael Wolff sure reckons so.
Holocaust Museum shooting: anti-Semitism lives on
An 88-year-old white supremacist shot a security guard at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC today befroe being shot himself. Rabbi David Saperstein discusses the attack and anti-Semitism in the US today.
Palestine, Israel and the need for freedom of speech
Holocaust denial warrants condemnation, but too often any criticism against Jews or Zionism is automatically slammed.
Banned in Beirut
Despite being named UNESCO’s 2009 World Book Capital City, a long list of books, films and music are banned in Beirut.
Guy Rundle: Walking out on Ahmadinejad highlights West’s hypocrisy
Ahmedinijad’s analysis is spot on. Europeans did kill the Jews.
Australia to boycott anti-racism conference
The government will boycott the UN Durban Review conference in Geneva this week, due to concerns of anti-Semitism.
Guy Rundle: Zionists and Nazis connected. Discuss
As far as accusing Zionists of being Nazis, the past, present and future champions are other Zionists.
Rundle’s Friday drive-bys
Guy Rundle’s new sort of column containing all the bits too long-winded and obscure for media briefs.
