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H igh in the rainforest of New South Wales’ Nightcap Range, my fellow study-abroaders and I had our first “bush” encounter at a place called Dharmananda. After making it through orientation the week before, I was eager to embark on the first of many field trips throughout Australia, getting acquainted with the land I was supposed to be studying. There was one problem though: the mini-portrait I’d gathered of Australia so far included the city of Brisbane and my program’s orientation site —

Just as anti-Semitism became official policy in Germany in the mid 1930s, it seems hostility towards Arabs, especially Israel’s own 1.5 million Palestinian citizens, is becoming a de facto official policy of the Israeli state. This ominous orientation is being constantly promoted by a number of manifestly racist cabinet ministers and Knesset members who declare openly that their aim is to make everyone in Israel “submit to the Jewish nature of the state.” The brash racism is now pe