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		<title>Harold Zwier: The AJDS and Pluralism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 06:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Stillman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This letter was written by Harold Zwier, a former member of the AJDS executive, and published in the Australian Jewish News on May 16. It does not necessarily represent the views of the executive:
Alan Freedman&#8217;s argument (AJN letter 10/5/2013) in favour of excluding the Australian Jewish Democratic Society (AJDS) from the Jewish Community Council of Victoria [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A letter to Nina Bassat, JCCV President on intolerance &#8211; Robin Rothfield.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 14:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Stillman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robin Rothfield wrote the letter below letter to Nina Bassat of the JCCV concerning attempts to expel it from the Jewish Community Council of Victoria and it is shared with his permission. For  the attached &#8216;note&#8216; alluded to in the letter, see the attachment.

Readers may need help to understand the remark &#8220;you may go down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to Julia Gillard &#8211; Raoul Wallenberg</title>
		<link>http://www.ajds.org.au/letter-to-julia-gillard-raoul-wallenberg/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ajds.org.au/letter-to-julia-gillard-raoul-wallenberg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 05:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>max</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hon Julia Gillard MP
Prime Minister
CC: The Hon Brendan O’Connor MP, Attorney General Mark Dreyfus
Dear Prime Minister,
The Australian Jewish Democratic Society (AJDS) commends the Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, and Governor-General Quentin Bryce for awarding an honorary citizenship to Raoul Wallenberg, who worked as a people smuggler and helped save thousands of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AJDS statement on the JCCV&#8217;s threatened disaffiliation</title>
		<link>http://www.ajds.org.au/ajds-statement-on-the-jccvs-threatened-disaffiliation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ajds.org.au/ajds-statement-on-the-jccvs-threatened-disaffiliation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 05:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>max</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In March – timed to coincide with Pesach – AJDS launched a new campaign entitled “Don’t Buy Settlement Products”. This campaign consists of a website and facebook page. The website provides information about why settlements located in the West Bank and Golan Heights are harmful for Palestinians and Israelis, as well as informing readers which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gideon Levy, Haaretz. Audio file of talk at Wits University</title>
		<link>http://www.ajds.org.au/gideon-levy-haaretz-audio-file-of-talk-at-wits-university/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ajds.org.au/gideon-levy-haaretz-audio-file-of-talk-at-wits-university/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 09:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Stillman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gideon Levy made a far-ranging presentation at Wits University in S Africa on 18 April.
It is a l o n g presentation (1 hr 45 mins), which includes remarks from the floor, but at almost every point in the talk, something interesting is said.
You may wish to download it to your Ipod or related device [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gideon Levy גדעון לוי-וידאו בעברית</title>
		<link>http://www.ajds.org.au/gideon-levy-%d7%92%d7%93%d7%a2%d7%95%d7%9f-%d7%9c%d7%95%d7%99-%d7%95%d7%99%d7%93%d7%90%d7%95-%d7%91%d7%a2%d7%91%d7%a8%d7%99%d7%aa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Stillman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[גדעון לוי מדבר על הצורך בהתנגדות מהכיבוש.העולם לא יסכים ל4 מיליון פלסטינים חיים ללא זכויות וישראלים צריכים להבין את זה
(לחץ על תמונה)
&#160;

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		<title>Video clip with Gideon Levy, Haaretz</title>
		<link>http://www.ajds.org.au/interview-with-gideon-levy-haaretz/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ajds.org.au/interview-with-gideon-levy-haaretz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Stillman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I caught up with Gideon Levy after a close to 2 hour talk by him to a packed room at Wits University in Johannesburg.  Let there be no doubt about it&#8211;his words would be discomforting to both the left and right, but for different reasons.  For the left, the enormity of the challenge to bring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AJDS letter to Brendan O&#8217;Connor MP- Asylum Seekers on hunger strike at Broadmeadows detention centre</title>
		<link>http://www.ajds.org.au/ajds-letter-to-brendan-oconnor-asylum-seekers-on-hunger-strike-at-broadmeadows-detention-centre/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ajds.org.au/ajds-letter-to-brendan-oconnor-asylum-seekers-on-hunger-strike-at-broadmeadows-detention-centre/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 05:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>max</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Please send your own form letter through this link and see here  for more information and updates about what is going on and what can be done. 
Please see below the text of a letter to Brendan O’Connor MP, Minister for Immigration
cc: The Honourable Mark Dreyfus QC MP
15/04/2013
Dear Minister,
We, the Australian Jewish Democratic Society (AJDS), are writing to you to in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ann Fink: AJDS and the Don&#8217;t Buy From the Settlements Campaign &#8211; a view from Israel</title>
		<link>http://www.ajds.org.au/ann-fink-ajds-and-the-dont-buy-from-the-settlements-campaign-a-view-from-israel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ajds.org.au/ann-fink-ajds-and-the-dont-buy-from-the-settlements-campaign-a-view-from-israel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Stillman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ann Fink, an Australian-Israeli dual national resident in Israeli and supporter of the AJDS had the opinion below  published on Jwire in response to an attempt to brand AJDS as being outside the pale in an opinion by Philip Mendes where he states &#8221; [AJDS] political loyalties always seem to lie with the pro-Palestinian Left [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Explaining the campaign from the right against  Jewish critics of Israel</title>
		<link>http://www.ajds.org.au/explaining-the-campaign-from-the-right-against-jewish-critics-of-israel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ajds.org.au/explaining-the-campaign-from-the-right-against-jewish-critics-of-israel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Stillman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article by  Antony Lerman appeared in the Guardian a number of years ago now, but it well explains the current right-wing takeover of Zionist politics in Australia and the take-no-prisoners attitude to dissenters.
&#8220;Yet attacks on Jewish critics are becoming desperate, for obvious reasons. Even many liberal Zionists are demonstrating their support for a &#8220;selective&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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