Calling out the brutality of Hamas has not been a given, and critics of Israel have been quick to refocus away from the atrocities to Israel’s response.
As a Jewish Australian, whose professional and personal life focuses on protecting the rights of individuals in Australia and abroad, it has been a devastating week.
The sadness associated with this lost opportunity for Australia and its First Nations’ people is mingled with the horror surrounding events in Israel that began a week before theMany Jewish Australians were actively supporting the Voice to parliament and the links between First Nations activism in Australia and the Jewish community run deep.
Indeed, many women are members of the 45,000-plus Women Wage Peace movement. Founded in the aftermath of the Gaza War of 2014, WWP’s approach to the conflict, and its resolution, is through a gendered lens. Non-partisan, the group works to empower women from diverse communities to build trust across divides, to achieve a unified demand for diplomatic negotiation, with full representation of women, to end the conflict.It is hard to know where that trust now lies.
I read Marcia Langton’s response on Saturday to outgoing Race Discrimination Commissioner Chin Tan’s call for the need for a national anti-racism strategy following the referendum campaign.
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