Vivienne Porzsolt

  • 1993 Festival of Jewish Cinema a mixed bag

    As in previous festivals, the latest Jewish film festival in Sydney covered the usual preoccupations of Jewish film with identity, the Holocaust, Israel and the pains of adolescence. With a couple of exceptions, it lacked

  • Life under Israeli occupation

    Ha'fa Baramki, director of continuing education at Bir Zeit University on the West Bank, was in Sydney recently and spoke to 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly of her experiences of the Israeli occupation. At the beginning of the

  • Bir Zeit president optimistic about peace

    Dr Gabriel Baramki, president of Bir Zeit University, in Sydney on a recent visit, spoke to 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly about the prospects for peace following the signing of the Declaration of Principles on September 13. Dr

  • 'Human rights central to peace'

    SYDNEY — Human rights are at the core of a real settlement to the conflicts in the Middle East, said Dr Gabi Baramki, the president of Bir Zeit University, at a public meeting on October 13. Bir Zeit University is a

  • Anti-Semitism of the left?

    I welcome the opportunity to debate the issue of Israel, Zionism and anti-Semitism in the pages of GLW and respond to Malloy and Lorimer's article (issue 111) written in reply to my letter in the previous issue. My

  • An economic rationalist's vision for New Zealand

    Jonathan Swift once responded to some 18th century economists with a sardonic suggestion that children of the Irish poor might be farmed as food for the rich. Not much has changed, it seems, if the work of a prominent New

  • Peace Squadron protests visit by nuclear ships

    About 30 boats of the Sydney Peace Squadron took to Sydney Harbour at 7 a.m. on January 9, to protest against the arrival of the giant US aircraft carrier Ranger, with its four companion ships. Three

  • NZ unions under New Right assault

    The New Zealand government's assault on the trade union movement is falling well short of its main aim, says Alan Millar, a leading NZ public sector unionist who visited Australia recently. When the

  • Threat to women's health services

    The outcome of a case currently before the Human Rights Commission in Canberra could have a huge impact on the status and welfare of women. "For women's health and women's health centres, the consequences could be

  • WEL: Whereto now?

    The Women's Electoral Lobby held its 20th national conference in Canberra over the long weekend. "Entitled Looking Back — Moving Forwards", it very much posed the question "Whereto now?" Looking at all the