The Sydney Peace Foundation awarded its annual prize to journalist, author and documentary maker John Pilger, and Jewish leaders again are on the offensive.
Australian jewish community
John Brumby: Jewish lobby puppet
Why has Victorian Premier John Brumby succumbed to the Jewish lobby on meeting former Iranian president Sayed Khatami? Asks Greg Barns.
Backman column: Israeli lobby censorship
Greg Barns and Michael Potter critically assess the Backman article, the Australian Jewish lobby and media censorship.
Backman column: a hollow apology?
Michael Backman has apologised to the Jewish community, but when the controversy first broke, he blamed The Age for the way the paper edited his words, writes Margaret Simons.
Turnbull: Politics, pot and those ‘possible Jewish roots’
His Catholic faith might normally suggest he’s already spoken for in terms of faith, but fandom knows no reason, writes Bernard Keane.
There’s vibrant debate within the Jewish community
It’s hard to imagine Crikey finding a less appropriate, less representative, less objective or less well-informed commentator on the internal affairs of Australia’s 120,000-strong Jewish community than Antony Loewenstein, writes B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission board member, Douglas Kirsner.
