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FIRST PRINTEDHoni 1929 Soit WEEK 10, SEM. 1, 2019 4-5: NEWS 19-21: FEATURE USU candidates hit the The Alpha and the Omega: ground for 2019 campaign The University Ecclesiarchy Nine students are vying for six coveted are: Zizheng (Oscar) Bai (Independent), If one believes university is a public and en panelling adorns the interior. Free positions on the student-led board of Caitlin Brown (Independent/Mod-Lib), secular affair, they might occasionally printing and wifi is provided. There’s a the 145-year old University of Sydney Christina Lee (Independent), Nick For- observe a few anomalies on campus. chapel and a common room with a pool Union (USU), an organisation which re- butt (Labor Left), Yinfeng (Benny) Shen The first time I was inside the Catholic table. It’s a relaxing scene. The chapel turned $29 million in gross income in (Advance), Ruolin (Irene) Ma (Indepen- Society’s Clubhouse was on a cold Win- was built and owned by the Archdio- 2018. Although ten candidates were in dent), Tom Manousaridis (Labor Right), ter morning after a lecture. The Centre, cese of Sydney. The construction was the race only a week ago, Switch-aligned Ellie Stephenson (Switch), and Eve underneath the Urbanest in Jane Foss approved by the then Archbishop of independent Prudence Wilkins-Wheat Wang (Panda). Russell Plaza, is modern, clean, and in a Sydney, George Pell. (Pru for USU) withdrew on Saturday better condition than the University of for personal reasons. The candidates Full story on page 4 >>> Sydney Union’s (USU) buildings. Wood- Read more on page 19 >>> LETTERS Raindrops keep falling on my head. But that doesn’t mean my eyes will soon be Acknowledgement of Country turning red. Crying’s not for me. Send me a letter please: [email protected] The settlement of Australia was grounded in a legal and moral fiction. One of the first High Court Against a history of marginalisation, mistreatment, and intergenerational trauma at the hands of judgments that law students learn about was named after a gardener at James Cook University. More settler-colonialism and white nationalism, Indigenous peoples continue to face an uphill battle. LETTERS than 25 years have passed since the Mabo decision. The judgment was not easily decided. 10 years of This century alone has seen a persistence of the heavy-handed attitudes which run parallel with antisemitic tropes, flirt with antisemitic as Lara puts it, “a weapon”. legal skirmishing passed before terra nullius was overturned. the European hubris of terra nullius. Funding was slashed for customary sentencing methods in On groups, and even target Jews. Fierce debate exists within my O Draconian Mabo himself passed away before judgment was delivered, and the Howard Liberal Government the criminal justice system, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission was abolished In Deborah Lipstadt’s seminal community about what does and would subsequently dilute native title by granting land title to white pastoralists following the 1996 overnight, and mainstream press continues to propagate moral panics and the framing of the antisemitism, Denying the Holocaust, the author doesn’t constitute antisemitism. Devil! I want Wik decision. The fact that last month, the High Court visited the Northern Territory for the first Hobbesian nightmare on the day-to-day lives of Indigenous peoples. makes an effort to explain what drives But too many of the most rabid time and awarded $2.5 million in compensation to the Ngaliwurru and Nungali native title holders This is an appalling demonstration of ignorance, incompetence and malice. The road to let Jews Holocaust deniers, particularly those on participants in that debate make their puzzles for spiritual loss, does not dispel the need to avoid causing such loss in the first place. reconciliation is a long one and Honi is proud to lend its battle colours to the fight for justice in the the far right; by painting the atrocities arguments not as Jews, but as partisan The fact that terra nullius was overturned by seven people in horsehair wigs in an old brutalist present and future. I am a student on Gadigal land and I live on Wallumattagal land. This always was speak for at the heart of Nazi Germany as a myth, actors. Jews who act on the partisan, It is I, the last sudoku enthusiast back building in Canberra has not drastically altered the reality faced by Indigenous peoples in Australia. and always will be Aboriginal land. fascist deniers are able to rehabilitate political spectrum have the space to again. ourselves their awful ideology. By erasing the place communal Jewish identity lower This week, I pick up my “supposedly” genocide of millions from history, on their priorities than those who faithfulHoni Soit, turn to the back tenth, Lara Sonnenschein, “The dangers of deniers nudge their unsuspecting engage with their Jewish identities pen clicked, pencil sharpened, rubber Contents Editorial weaponising anti-Semitism” (Week 7, audience towards an antisemitic first, and their mainstream political rubbed, and what do I find? No sudoku, Semester 1) mistrust of Jews. Unfortunately, it identities later (if at all). no crossword, no target, not even a Editors When I lived by the bay in Auckland a New Year’s dinners, I would poke at appears anti-Zionist actors who allege Most don’t, but some do. ‘spot the difference’. Look, I may be the 4 NEWS decade ago, I loved eating fish and chips. my rice, forlorn, and daydream of being Baopu He, Pranay Jha, Karishma Luthria, that there can be no antisemitism in Any definition of antisemitism that minority and truth be told I do not read At high noon on slow, sedated Sundays, someone else. The slow days died when On Twitter this week, American Jewish 8 OPINION Jessica Syed, Liam Thorne, Nell O’Grady, criticising Israel — and particularly seeks to shield your side of the political your paper. I am here for the games, the my grandma and I would amble down Australia became my home. Sundays commentator Yair Rosenberg asked a Carrie Wen, Joseph Verity, Annie Zhang Jewish actors who do this — are acting spectrum from criticism is not fit fun, the challenge that you give week in 10 ANALYSIS to the little corner shop. We were flew by as my father and I scouted question which put into words a feeling & Alan Zheng in similarly bad faith. for purpose; and any definition of week out. 13 PERSPECTIVE unrushed, easy-going and moving at Sydney for a cheap place to rent. We’d I’ve had for some time now: “What if we listened to what major Jewish groups After all, if there is no antisemitism antisemitism which alleges that there I thought mid-sem was my Writers our own pace. Along the way, we’d talk spend loose change on Smith’s chip inherent in anti-Zionism, then it cannot can be no antisemitic criticism of the relief from the mentally stimulating 14 USU ELECTION about everything and nothing at all. packets. My father would begrudgingly had to say about anti-Semitism, rather Anonymous, Rhea Cai, Soo Choi, be antisemitic to suggest that Jews only Jewish state obscures blatant experience I call university, and yet here The shop was an unassuming eat the chips and I’d save the free footy than self-interested partisan actoqrs, 16 HISTORY Vivienne Davies, Deaundre Espejo, should not have self-determination in reality. I am, just waiting to be challenged on place with unremarkable magazines tazo for awkward discussions about and let them drive the narrative?” Laura de Feyter, Michael Eaton, Fossil the land of Israel. The idea that “Zionism is a modern my useless trivia knowledge, like the 17 CULTURE and dreary decor, the kind that a food the Swans and Sea Eagles at recess. Rosenberg was responding to Free USyd, Austin Fong, Samuel Garrett, This is, unfortunately, the central colonial movement”, a popular rhetorical name of a metalworking tool feared critic would skip, and an instagrammer On school mornings, he would the debate prompted by Republican 18 SWF 2019 Grace Johnson, Jeffrey Khoo, James thesis of Lara Sonnenschein’s recent tool among anti-Zionists, obscures by many a roadrunner, an anvil if you would rain check today. pour a thin layer of milk into an old congressman Lee Zeldin, who accused Newbold, Anton Nguyen, Sean Perry, piece for Honi Soit; that calling out realities about both colonialism and were interested. My gift to you, at an 19 FEATURE We’d order a family pack: potato takeaway container and dip Weet-Bix Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Subandana Rimal, Millie Roberts, Lara antisemitism on the part of anti-Zionist Zionism from Lara’s readership. elementary level because that is what scallops for Grandpa, battered ‘catch into it. Crusts of dehydrated fibre flakes Omar of antisemitism for calling Jewish 22 CREATIVE Sonnenschein, Georgia Tan, Tournesol actors is part of a conspiracy to allow Zionism, for the vast majority of us I’m reduced to without your challenges, of the day’ for my parents, and some would fly everywhere. White House aide Stephen Miller a & Max Zhuili Israel to act as it likes with impunity. who identify with it, seeks to find Jews an acrostic poem. 23 MULTILINGUAL banana fritters for my sister if my six- My father was born in a small “white nationalist”. In this instance, Omar was not Suggesting that “even minor a place in our homeland with a final, Artists year-old self was feeling particularly village a three and a half hour’s drive 24 SRC criticisms of Israeli policy... are often negotiated set of borders between an Horrified at what I found benevolent. While we waited, I would from Shanghai.