Nine months ago, following the terrorist attack on the Jewish community at Bondi Beach, I wrote about my struggle to make sense of the Israel and Palestine conflict. I wrote then from a place of grief. I remain there. Indeed, as I watch what is happening in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, I find… Continue reading Israel and Palestine. Two Peoples. Two Homelands. One Moral Standard.
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After Bondi: grief, fear, and the hard work of refusing hatred
The attack on Australia’s Jewish community on Bondi Beach in recent days has left me shaken and heartsick. It joins a grim list of assaults on Jewish life across the world, including the attack on the Heaton Park synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur earlier this year. These are not isolated acts. They sit within… Continue reading After Bondi: grief, fear, and the hard work of refusing hatred
