Teresa Pirola Dr Teresa Pirola is a Sydney-based freelance writer and faith educator, and author of Catholic-Jewish Relations: Twelve Key Themes for Teaching and Preaching (Paulist Press, 2023). mercatornet.com Screams Before Silence is a harrowing, yet sensitively crafted and ultimately viewable, documentary film about the weaponisation of rape by
It looks like Chloe Swarbrick is fast running out of threadbare excuses to hide behind: even a bog-standard lefty like Anthony Albanese admits that her favourite genocide chant is “violent” and “has no place on our streets”. Still think it has a place on the streets of Auckland, Chloe? Do
Ahron Shapiro aijac.org.au Australian news headlines this morning (May 7) were remarkably consistent. Firstly, they said, Hamas had agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza, and secondly, that Israel had not accepted it and was instead moving ahead with an attack on the southern Gazan city of Rafah, which
He’s a busy boy, is Melbourne’s Mohammad Sharab — and he’s rubbing shoulders with the elite of the Melbourne left. Sharab is, of course, on bail for his alleged part in a shocking kidnapping in Melbourne in March. Along with prominent Muslim activist, Laura Allam, Sharab is accused
BICOM BICOM provides accurate, timely and balanced information that is read by officials, experts, journalists and many others. What’s happened: As Israel seeks to ascertain whether Hamas is serious about a hostage deal, troops have continued to carry out focused operations against Hamas targets in eastern Rafah. * In a
John Strawson Emeritus Professor of Law, University of East London In the diplomatic manoeuvrings surrounding the conflict in Gaza, things are beginning to gather pace. Israel’s Western allies are pressing the Israeli prime minister to accept the latest plan brokered by Egypt and Qatar, while the Gulf states, led
Once again student leftists are at the “find out” stage, after their latest outburst of fucking around. First, it was prestigious law firms going on record that they would decline to hire graduates of formerly prestigious Ivy League colleges: A number of large law firms have already signalled their increasing
Are they ready yet to admit that multiculturalism has failed? That it was always going to fail, because it’s a dangerously flawed ideology? As poet Les Murray wrote, the worst ethnic chauvinists are the purest multiculturalists. “All’s permitted… when they migrate.” Australia is reaping the failure of multiculturalism
Vasileios Karagiannopoulos Associate Professor in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity and Co-Director of the Centre for Cybercrime and Economic Crime, University of Portsmouth Iain Reid Course Leader, MSc Cybercrime, University of Portsmouth A feature of the simmering tensions between the US, Israel and Iran has been not just the tit-for-tat missile and
BICOM BICOM provides accurate, timely and balanced information that is read by officials, experts, journalists and many others. What’s happening: The Israeli negotiators are still waiting for answers from Hamas over the latest iteration of a deal to release some of the hostages. * Speaking earlier this week in Saudi
Back in the heyday of the ISIS “Caliphate”, Australian-born jihadi Khaled Sharrouf proudly posted photos of his seven-year-old son holding up a severed head. The Islamic happy-snaps provoked much horror and disbelief. How could even small children be so driven to violent hate, the chatterers wailed. Like this. The sight
Tierin-Rose Mandelburg Tierin-Rose grew up in a large Christian family on the coast of Connecticut. After high school she moved to Alabama to dance with a professional ballet company while attending Liberty University. She served as an MRC Culture intern in Spring 2021 and became staff shortly there after. Her
As I reminded BFD readers, it should not be forgotten that university students were early and enthusiastic adopters of Nazi ideology in the Third Reich. Students, as the Holocaust Encyclopedia relates, “often interrupted lectures, provoked skirmishes, and physically intimidated Jewish students”. They’re at it again. Yes, nearly a century
BICOM BICOM provides accurate, timely and balanced information that is read by officials, experts, journalists and many others. What’s happened: Hamas has released a new video of American-Israeli Hersh Goldberg-Polin, held hostage in the Gaza Strip since October 7th. * The 23-year-old, kidnapped from the Nova music festival, appears in
Well, it’s official, Chloe Swarbrick: you’re bellowing an antisemitic, genocidal hate slogan. No less an authority than the US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly agreed. Before Chloe and her anti-Israel chums start blithering that it’s all just the wicked Republicans, the measure was co-sponsored by two Democrats.
