Honi Soit Week 2, Semester 2, 2020 / First printed 1929 The soundtracks of growing up / p. 13 Drew Pavlou and Women’s oral traditions The problem with the Right / p. 6 in North India / p. 9 Aus Rock / p. 17 LETTERS Acknowledgement of Country Letters Honi Soit is published on the stolen land of the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation. For over 230 years, First Nations people in this country have suffered from the destructive effects of invasion. The editors of this paper recognise that, as a team of settlers occupying the lands of the Bidjigal, Darug, Gadigal, Wangal and A letter from AUJS SSAF strike!!!1!!1 Wallumedegal people, we are beneficiaries of these reverberations that followed European settlement. As we strive throughout the year to offer a platform to the voices mainstream media ignores, we cannot meet this goal without providing a space for First Nations people to share their experiences and perspectives. A student paper which In the February 2020 ‘Welcome Week’ placed on her letter by the Honi editors. this image has unfortunately helped to Dear editors, does not acknowledge historical and ongoing colonisation and the white supremacy embedded within Australian society can never adequately represent the students edition of Honi Soit, there was an insert The editors of Honi say they were seeking perpetuate it. of the institution in which it operates. We seek to resist colonial violence and the racist power structures that serve to oppress those who are Indigenous to this land. purporting to be from the University of to satirise and discredit the Catholic Society, More than that, the abuse directed I’ve been mulling over the students Sovereignty was never ceded. Always was and always will be Aboriginal land. Sydney Union. On page 3, located next mocking them by associating them with the against a prominent Jewish student leader amenities fee and where my contribution is to the headline “Friday: Catholic Society anti-Jewish trope. One of many problems on campus (and in the wider community) – going, what use is it to a campus that had presents Life Day”, an image was published with that contention is that the Catholic merely for having the temerity to question been shut for almost the entirety of the of a placard bearing the words “Should we Society has never had even the slightest Honi – is entirely unjustifiable. This is get the Jews back for what they did to our association with anti-Jewish bigotry and in especially so given the cartoon’s publication academic year? Considering the universities’ Contents Editorial absolute boy? Yes or No?”. Next to the fact enjoys excellent relations with Jewish in Welcome Week – a time when all new cuts to the humanities faculties and their students. students should feel a sense of belonging on extreme profit margins, I thought to myself, I’m not saying that you should (p.6) considers Pavlou’s relationship placard in the image was a “Yes” jar and a “No” jar. The image depicted a student Decades ago, the Catholic Church itself campus, not a time when Jewish students, or why pay it? And I didn’t. Until today when Who? Weekly / 3 Editor in Chief: brick the stained glass window of a with the sinophobic right, and placing a vote in the “Yes” jar which was disavowed the myth that “the Jews” are indeed any student, should be made to feel I was blocked from re-enrolling, despite Madeline Ward certain unnamed band in a certain Dona Sirimanne’s exploration of full. The “No” jar was shown as almost collectively responsible for the death of Jesus. marginalised and vilified. having a HECS debt of over $6,000 already unnamed pub in a certain inner-city sex and orientalism (p.9) is a deep empty. In the declaration of the Second Vatican Of greater concern is the presumption to my name. I could not access my Semester This image was apparently intended to Council in 1965 entitled Nostra Aetate, by the editors that they understand better News / 4 Editors: Nina Dillon Britton, location, but I’m also not not saying dive into western perceptions of sex 1 results to flaunt to my parents. I’d like to Matthew Forbes, Zhiquan Gan, refer to the antisemitic trope that “the Jews and in subsequent official documents, than Jewish students what is, or what is not, investigate- where possible- the purpose, the it either, you know? In any case, it and gender in Asia and the Middle killed Jesus”. This historical falsehood, the Catholic Church has acknowledged objectively antisemitic. We doubt the editors Robbie Mason, Angad Roy, Lara results- of my $154 fee to the University. Analysis / 6 Sonnenschein, Ranuka Tandan, seems a little foolish to memorialise East. I am grateful to each and every implying that all Jews, for all time, are the unique link that binds it to the Jewish of Honi would presume to tell indigenous or Australia’s shittest reggae band in one of them, and all of our other collectively responsible for Deicide, was for people; recognised that the gifts of God are Muslim students that the latter are inferior Chuyi Wang, Madeline Ward, centuries used as a pretext for committing irrevocable, and that the covenant made by judges of what constitutes prejudice against Kindly, Perspective / 10 Lei Yao stained glass and expect it to remain artists and reporters, for making this unspeakable barbarities, including mass God with the Jews therefore still stands; their communities. A student who’s shifts were reduced over brick-free. I guess there are better, edition a particularly good one. murder, against Jewish communities all over and condemned and deplored displays of We would like to put this regrettable saga COVID-19, Feature / 13 Contributors: Joshua Brennan, more important things to be bricked, I must also make special mention Europe and elsewhere. antisemitism at any time from any source. behind us, and have asked the Honi editors Nathalie Dexter Duckett, Himath The Catholic Society had nothing to So, regardless of the claimed intentions to give an unqualified apology for the hurt but I imagine it would feel pretty of Ash Duncan, our talented Siriniwasa, Dona Sirimanne, do with the image. In fact, it subsequently of the Honi editors, the publication smeared and offence caused by publication of the Culture / 16 Shania O’Brien, Christian good to lob one straight through cover artist, who patiently and complained publicly about having been the Catholic Society, and made light of an image and the subsequent letter. They have Holman, Deaundre Espejo, the visage of a group of individuals enthusiastically draws even our misrepresented and vilified in Honi. Nor antisemitic trope which has an appalling, sadly found themselves unable to do so. Our Self-defence did the insert come from the University of blood-soaked history. If the newspaper had view is very simple: antisemitism is no joke. Perspective / 18 Jeffrey Khoo, Rhea Thomas, that represent the very worst of most outlandish ideas. Dear editors, Felix Faber, Marlow Hurst, Sydney Union. It was a sham created by the published an anti-indigenous or anti-Muslim Australia’s music scene. Lastly, I must commend the editors of Honi, who say it was published as canard, intending to satirise it when it was in Roisin Murphy, Angelina This is all hypothetical, of course. current crop of SRC student I came back to campus this semester Writing Comp /20 Nguyen, Seamus Pragnell, an attempt to satirise the Catholic Society, fact attributing it falsely to an innocent party, AUJS I wouldn’t dream of suggesting activists valiantly fighting against and presumably also the University of would we even be having a debate about and was shocked at your graphic Mahmoud Al Rifa, Libby Sydney Union. whether they should apologise? Would it depiction our education minister, Dan, Newton otherwise! It’s not even about the the ongoing threat of the Liberal Creative / 22 Gabi Stricker-Phelps, the NSW Political have been published it in the first place? Nudes, declarations of in a precarious situation. How would aforementioned unnamed talentless government to our education. I Affairs Officer of the Australian Union of The reality is that despite the fact that you like it if the Sydney Tory drew your SRC / 24 Artists: Nishta Gupta, Isla (and litigious!) assholes. It’s implore those reading this to donate Jewish Students, wrote to the editors of all the major Christian denominations have affection and hate mail hero, Senator Bernard Sanders, in a Mowbray, Janina Osinsao, about the broader scene that these to the fund set up to pay the fines of Honi, asking them to clarify who they meant long repudiated the “Christ-killer” myth and similarly precarious and VIOLENT by “absolute boy”. Her letter was published condemned antisemitism, one cannot expect may be sent to: Sophia Calvo y Perez, Lily dickheads are able to operate in. activists in attendance at last week’s predicament?! Comedy / 27 Aggio, Bella Henderson in the next edition of Honi under the heading nearly 2000 years of anti-Jewish prejudice to [email protected] Roisin Murphy’s analysis of this National Day of Action, and to “It’s Jesus you fucking fool”. She too lodged disappear overnight. The prejudice lingers scene (p.19) is a must read. So too attend any future actions. Donate a complaint with the University about the in our culture and language, and is still Please respond soon, Cover artist: Ash Duncan Jill Wefferies is Shania O’Brien’s exploration of here: https://gf.me/u/yur4tg. antisemitic nature of the image in question, frequently part of antisemitic abuse directed as well as the personally abusive heading at Jews around the world.