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Paul Tyson's avatar

The last time I was in Berlin with my family (10 years ago) we met Yoav, an elderly Jewish man we recognized from our hotel, when we went to a magnificent baroque trumpet concert at the Berlin Philharmonic. Yoav had fled Berlin as a young man in the Nazi years, and now lived in Israel. He loved coming back to Berlin for the music, but could never live there again. 10 years ago I really thought we had no anti-Semitism worth talking about in Australia, and with such an enormous population of holocaust survivors in Melbourne, and the wonderful Jewish contribution to Australian cultural and intellectual life after the war, I could not image we would ever see anti-Semitism in Australia. What has happened to my country? What has happened to the Left? Very disorienting, very troubling. With you, though not from the inside, we are dismayed by the ... sacreligious defacements of MP Josh Burn's office, and the horrifying return of a deeply irrational and dehumanizing anti-Sematism in Australia, dear Juile.

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debbie wiener's avatar

Australia is no longer the land of “ we are one and free”. There is no “ one” and we sure as hell aren’t “ free”, unless you call “free “ the ability to be a rabid anti semite without consequence or alternatively with reward eg seat at Sydney uni.

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