Australia & Israel : a diasporic, cultural and political relationship /
Australia and the State of Israel have maintained a cordial if at times ambiguous relationship. The two countries are geographically isolated: strategic, economic, and cultural interests lie increasingly with Asia for one, and with the United States and the European Union for the other. But for all...
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Eastbourne ; Chicago :
Sussex Academic Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Why the Book?: Shahar Burla and Dashiel Lawrence; Part One Australia and Israel
- Diasporic Relationship; 1 Rewriting the Rules of Engagement: New Australian Jewish Connections with Israel: Dashiel Lawrence; 2 The Personal, the Political and the Religious: Bnei Akiva Australia and its Relationship with Israel: Ari Lander; 3 Israeli Government and Diaspora Mobilisation: The Flotilla to Gaza and Australian Jewry as a Case Study: Shahar Burla.
- 4 The Place of Hebrew and Israel Education in Australian Jewish Schools: Suzanne Rutland and Zehavit Gross5 The Ausraeli Approach: the Diasporic Identity of Israelis in Australia: Ran Porat; Part Two Australia and Israel
- Political and Cultural Relationship; 6 Overcoming Water Scarcity and Inequity in Arid Lands: Comparing Water Management in Australia and Israel: Dominic Skinner and Stephanie Galaitsi; 7 Ben Zygier's Story and Australia-Israel Relations: Ingrid Matthews; 8 A Fight Worth Having: Rudd, Gillard, Israel and the Australian Labor Party: Alex Benjamin Burston-Chorowicz.
- 9 An Alliance of Forgetting: National Narratives of Legitimacy on the Occasion of Israel-Australia's Joint Stamp Issue Commemorating the Battle of Beersheba: Micaela SahharPart Three Australia, Israel and the Boycott Divestment and Sanction Scheme; 10 The Australian Greens and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Philip Mendes; 11 Academic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions: Implications for Australian-Israeli Relations: Ingrid Matthews and James Arvanitakis; Conclusion: First Cousinhood, Political Unease, and the Limits of Comparison: Fania Oz-Salzberger; The Editors and Contributors; Index.
