Dr. Marcelo Svirsky, an Israeli/Australian lecturer from UOW walked from Sydney to Parliament House in Canberra to present a petition for Boycott Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) demanding the government exclude relations with Israel in line with BDS until it abides by international laws.
Despite the pro-Israeli bias in Australia’s mainstream media, more than 69% of Australia’s population are now critical of Israel’s influence in the world (BBC Poll, 2013) and many of these critics in Adelaide are eager to express that disapproval by employing the time-honoured tactics of BDS.
What a feather in the Zionist cap! A Catholic pope honouring Herzl the Zionist atheist! Francis’ rabbi friend, Abraham Skorka was spot on when he noted that it ‘could be understood as a nod to Zionism’. It was much more than a nod. For the gleeful Netanyahu gang, it was an imprimatur on the expansionism of Greater Israel negating Francis’ two-state solution.
