We need to keep the issue of settler colonialism here and in Palestine front and centre, argues听Michelle Berkon,听as听Australia and Israel have shared values.
Michelle Berkon
Anti-Zionist Jews听Judith Treanor, Suzie Gold and Michelle Berkon,听standing several metres from a synagogue entrance holding innocuous signs, were threatened with arrest for the alleged crime of 鈥渃ausing fear and alarm鈥.
Jews are far from the only ethnic or religious group subjected to persecution and genocide over the centuries.听Michelle Berkon argues听that an inclusive approach to discrimination against Jews would be to include it under an umbrella definition of racism.
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Following a recent screening of the new documentary, Palestine Under Siege, hosted in Gadigal/Sydney by supporters of 91自拍论坛, local Jewish activist Michelle Berkon presented the following response to the film.
Israel has always appropriated and exceptionalised Jewish suffering, but anti-Zionist Jews听reclaim their听suffering under Nazi persecution from Israel鈥檚 propaganda machine, Michelle Berkon told a Palestine rally.
In a听country听genuinely engaged in decolonisation, countering colonial narratives would be undertaken by the state, argues Michelle Berkon.