Jake Lynch
In Australia last month, Melissa Parke, a former Labor federal legislator and UN legal officer in Gaza, won a libel case against Colin Rubenstein, director of the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council.
He issued a statement in settlement, affirming that she was not, in fact, “a compulsive slanderer, a conspiracy theorist, a liar, a fanatic, or an anti-Semite”.
Ms Parke had taken the action, she explained, “seeking an acknowledgment that I was not any of the things imputed of me” and to resist “the inappropriate weaponisation of accusations of anti-Semitism”.
In March, in the United States, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Jewish National Fund against the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights.
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Top row: Industry leaders and alumni judges at the Cornell Hospitality Business Plan Competition, held virtually May 1. Bottom row left to right: Shaily Patil, MPS-RE ’21, and Jacob Tannenbaum, MPS-RE ’21, members of winning team Life After Life. Green cemetery wins hospitality business pitch contest
May 4, 2021
A monetization platform connecting consumers to restaurants through influencers’ content and an algorithm-based trip-planning concierge were among the pitches presented during the 11th Cornell Hospitality Business Plan Competition, an annual entrepreneurship event that presents cash prizes for the top three finishers.
Hosted virtually May 1 by the School of Hotel Administration’s (SHA) Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship (PIHE), the competition’s $25,000 first prize went to a concept addressing the problem of unaffordable and unsustainable funeral practices in America through conservation cemetery par
Scholars are urging historian Alison Bashford to decline the Dan David Prize in rejection of Israel’s colonial violence. (YouTube)
More than 250 Australian and international scholars are calling on a prominent Australian historian to reconsider accepting the 2021 Dan David Prize in rejection of Israel’s colonial violence and apartheid.
The $1 million prize is awarded by a foundation based at Tel Aviv University, an institution complicit in maintaining Israel’s systemic violations of Palestinian rights.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to the US president, was also awarded the Dan David Prize and eagerly gave his implicit endorsement of Israeli medical apartheid.
IT is still all to play for as the two Tynedale teams go into 2021 battling it out for top honours in Division One. Leaders Prudhoe YC Seniors and rivals Haltwhistle Jubilee both picked up maximum points at the weekend as they refuse to lose ground in the anticipated title race. Prudhoe end 2020 as leaders as they defeated Hebburn Town U23 3-1. Man of the match Rob Hayes added to his opening goal for the club the previous week to cap a great performance. He was joined on the scoresheet by teammates Josh Mottram and David Burns. The result took Prudhoe past the 30 point mark season from their opening 13 league fixtures, with 10 victories and one draw.
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