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Apr 14, 2026, 3:03 AM

Jewish antizionists and the Shoah

It is Yom HaShoah. The worldwide day of remembrance for the Holocaust. Each year survivors tell their stories. Fewer and fewer of them now. And each year that passes there is more and more Holocaust denial. But not only...

Feb 19, 2026, 4:15 PM

What do Mein Kampf and globalise the intifada have in common?

What do Mein Kampf and globalise the intifada have in common? Spot the difference. Once upon a time, back in the days of dial up internet and landlines, there used to be an assumption that prerequisites for a job or...

Dec 19, 2025, 9:22 AM

Hunt for the Jews, Australian style

Back in 2012, the eminent Holocaust historian Professor Jan Grabowski wrote his groundbreaking work, “The Hunt for the Jews” ( “Der Judenjagd”), which detailed the role of the Polish collaborators in hunting down Jews in the Dobrowa- Tarnowska area...

Oct 1, 2025, 8:14 AM

Imagine this. You really hate someone but then something awful happens to them. As a nominally decent human you begrudgingly have sympathy for them. But as time goes on your sympathy dissipates and your old feelings of loathing return. Why,...

Sep 29, 2025, 2:46 PM

Once, before, when it looked as if those times had passed, disappeared, been relegated to then, when there was optimism and joy in the world and when words made sense and life wasn’t upside down, then, then, I remember....

Sep 11, 2025, 10:25 AM

When Hamas met Bin Laden

When Hamas met Bin Laden… So the woke West is falling over itself to be the quickest to condemn Israel for striking the heart of the beast that is Hamas. Our very own Penny Wong was, as usual, quick off...

Sep 7, 2025, 1:39 PM

The blossoms of grief

Three weeks ago, just as the spring blossoms were beginning to open and the bursts of pink and white started to be seen, the cat died. Well, one of them, the oldest of the current crop. It is only...

Aug 13, 2025, 9:30 PM

Should I still call Australia home?

Should I still call Australia home? Australia today is a country far away from the one I used to know. Like an old lover whom you run into after many years and whose face is unrecognizable, you wonder, how did...

Aug 13, 2025, 10:40 AM

The woke west or how have we come to this?

In May 1945, General de Gaulle declared that Nazi Germany was defeated and the Allies had achieved "total victory.” Much of Germany was in ruins. Civilian deaths were huge. Many villages and towns in France suffered huge damage as...

Jun 5, 2025, 10:28 AM

Poisoning the wells 2025 version

When poisoning the wells in the middle ages turned into shooting civilians queuing for aid. In the Middle Ages the Jews were accused of various heinous acts, such as, inter alia, poisoning the wells and using the blood of babies...

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A family law barrister and amateur Holocaust historian with an interest in writing about what is important right now.