Comments on: Australian anti-Semitism: Record highs for July http://www.yourish.com/2006/09/04/1971 Cutting straight to the point Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:40:44 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Dan http://www.yourish.com/2006/09/04/1971/comment-page-1#comment-19896 Dan Tue, 05 Sep 2006 04:36:41 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/09/04/1971#comment-19896 Derick, your additional information made the news even more disturbing. Derick, your additional information made the news even more disturbing.

]]> By: Derick http://www.yourish.com/2006/09/04/1971/comment-page-1#comment-19893 Derick Mon, 04 Sep 2006 23:43:39 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/09/04/1971#comment-19893 Anti-Semitism on any Australian campus is reprehensible, but at Monash University in Melbourne there's a terrible irony involved. The university is named in honor of Sir John Monash (1865-1931), an accomplished civil engineer who became Australia's greatest general in the First World War. Monash was a Jew, and in 1927 became the president of the Australian Zionist Federation. Anti-Semitism on any Australian campus is reprehensible, but at Monash University in Melbourne there’s a terrible irony involved. The university is named in honor of Sir John Monash (1865-1931), an accomplished civil engineer who became Australia’s greatest general in the First World War. Monash was a Jew, and in 1927 became the president of the Australian Zionist Federation.

]]> By: Alex Bensky http://www.yourish.com/2006/09/04/1971/comment-page-1#comment-19885 Alex Bensky Mon, 04 Sep 2006 14:46:37 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/09/04/1971#comment-19885 Well, so much for the idea that it's just Zionists they oppose, not Jews. But I take it that if Jewish students beat up some Muslims next time there's a bus bombing or something in Israel that informed opinion would see it as an understandable if not quite condonable response to Middle East tensions...well, except for what Meryl keeps calling the Exception Clause: "except for jews." Well, so much for the idea that it’s just Zionists they oppose, not Jews.

But I take it that if Jewish students beat up some Muslims next time there’s a bus bombing or something in Israel that informed opinion would see it as an understandable if not quite condonable response to Middle East tensions…well, except for what Meryl keeps calling the Exception Clause: “except for jews.”

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