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Dr Paul Bauert. Photo: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas
February 14, 2019, 12:00 am
Doctor’s apology for Auschwitz comparison rebuffed
An Australian medical expert has been accused of inadequately apologising after implying refugees on Manus Island and Nauru are worse off than Holocaust victims who were sent to be gassed at Auschwitz.
By Peter Kohn
Mahmoud Abbas addressing the Palestinian National Council. Photo: Flash90
May 10, 2018, 12:00 am
Abbas’ apology over his Shoah comments rejected
The Palestinian President has apologised "if people were offended" by his claims that the "social function" that Jews took on in Europe was the cause of massacres, including the Holocaust.
By Nathan Jeffay
The offending photo of Shore students and their teacher in 2016 posing with a Nazi flag.
October 1, 2017, 12:00 am
School apologises for students’ Nazi ‘prank’
STUDENTS at Sydney's Shore school will be addressed on leadership and racism by the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies (JBOD) after an image surfaced of the school's deputy headmaster with a group of students making a salute alongside a Nazi flag.
By Evan Zlatkis
Some of the RCV executive and how they voted: Rabbi Moshe Kahn (against), Rabbi Chaim Cowen (for), Rabbi Mordechai Gutnick (for) Rabbi Daniel Rabin (against) Rabbi Phillip Heilbrunn (for), Rabbi Ralph Genende (against, resigned), Rabbi Shmuel Karnowsky (against). Photo: Peter Haskin
September 14, 2017, 12:00 am
Same-sex marriage statement rocks rabbinate
A Rabbinical Council of Victoria (RCV) member quit the body's executive and the president apologised within days of an RCV statement urging people to vote against same-sex marriage in the upcoming postal survey.
By Joshua Levi and adam kamien
The sign at the hotel in Switzerland put up by manager Ruth Thomas, who has since apologised.
August 18, 2017, 12:00 am
Apology over ‘Jewish guests’ sign
The manager of a hotel in Switzerland has said she was wrong to post signs instructing “Jewish guests” to shower before entering the pool and to access the refrigerator at set times.
Victim and advocate Manny Waks.
March 23, 2017, 12:00 am
Alleged abuser says sorry
Alleged child sexual abuser Velvel Serebryanski has apologised to one of his alleged victims.
By Joshua Levi
The controversial comment posted by Amnesty International Australia on its Facebook site.
February 9, 2017, 10:50 am
Amnesty apology for Israeli ban post
Amnesty International Australia has been forced to apologise after it justified the fact that a number of countries ban Israeli passport-holders because “of the atrocities committed by the Israel Defence Force”.
By Joshua Levi
Kingsford Smith MP Matt Thistlethwaite.
December 22, 2016, 12:00 am
MP wrongly listed on anti-Israel petition
The Australia Palestine Advocacy Network has apologised to federal MP Matt Thistlethwaite after it mistakenly listed him as a signatory on an anti-Israel petition.
By Evan Zlatkis
St Philip's College in Alice Springs.
September 16, 2016, 12:00 am
School sorry for Hitler dress-up
An incident at an Alice Springs school last week in which a student dressed up as Adolf Hitler in front of a group of Jewish students has been described as an “innocent mistake”, and a “very distressing lesson for all concerned”.
By Evan Zlatkis
B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation Commission chair Dvir Abramovich has slammed comparisons made by pro-Palestinian activists between Australia Day and Naqba Day.
September 2, 2016, 12:00 am
Aussie firm sorry for IDF snub
An international funds transfer company has apologised after a Jewish Australian businessman was told he could not send money to an educational institution in Israel “due to its involvement with the IDF”.
By Joshua Levi
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