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