From the Department of Appropriate Names: Entrepreneur Dick Smith gave $50,000 to help fund the legal battle to bring confessed terror supporter David Hicks home. But Mr Smith said “not a cent” went directly to Hicks and some cash had been returned after Hicks was brought back to Australia. Details of Mr Smith’s financial assistance [...]
Relations between Israel and New Zealand have been strained in recent times, thanks in large part to current Prime Minister Helen Clark. This could be about to change, with New Zealand likely to elect a Jewish Prime Minister with ostensibly warm feelings towards Israel. It has fewer than 10,000 Jews, less than 0.2 percent of [...]
I just got back from the morning prayer service. As I was leaving the synagogue, a drunk man and woman were walking by. Drunk woman: You wouldn’t happen to have a mobile phone we could borrow? Aussie Dave: No, sorry (I really didn’t). Drunk woman: What about in there (pointing to synagogue). Is there a [...]
Members of Australia’s Muslim community are pushing for polygamy. For the women’s sake, of course. Members of Australia’s Islamic community believe polygamous marriages should be recognised to protect the rights of women. Sheikh Khalil Chami of the Islamic Welfare Centre in Sydney’s Lakemba today said polygamous marriages, although illegal, existed in Australia and should be [...]
With the blog-triggered Dunkin’ Donuts keffiyeh controversy receiving quite a bit of airplay in the mainstream media, another keffiyeh controversy is now being reported from Australia. And the story has a number of interesting aspects. For a start, the complaints have not just originated from those who deplore the ubiquitization of palestinian terror chic. Palestinians [...]
She’s still getting herself into trouble over her butt. An Israeli tourist who stripped naked last week when New Zealand road workers whistled at her has been admitted to a mental health unit after allegedly assaulting a bar worker, police said Wednesday. The woman was arrested Friday night after allegedly putting out a cigarette on [...]
But this time, no-one was complaining. Road workers in a small New Zealand town got their wish granted when a woman stripped saying she was fed up with their wolf-whistles. The Israeli tourist was about to use an ATM in the main street of Kerikeri, in the far north of the country, when the men [...]
Question: You were a terrorist who undertook combat training with al Qaeda and served with the Taliban. What’s your punishment? Answer: At least one million dollars. Former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks will go from broke to millionaire overnight if he accepts the latest mega-offer to tell his story. Channel 9′s 60 Minutes has put [...]
Over the Sabbath, I met the Israelis who were bashed in Perth a few days ago. I can confirm that this was likely not motivated by anti-Semitism or anti-Israel sentiment, given that the perpetrators were a gang of Aborigines (I myself have been on the receiving end of some of their “love” a long time [...]
Israellycool reader, real-life friend and fellow blogger Gedalia posts about a possible anti-Semitic/anti-Israel attack that occurred in Perth a few nights ago. This story started last Thursday. I received a call from a friend in Melbourne. Usual story – there are two Israeli backpackers coming to Perth. Can I take them in for Shabbat, help [...]
