John-Janusz Ebel
John-Janusz Ebel is the son of Holocaust survivors. Soon after coming to Australia from Poland, Ebel chose to be a draft resister and activist against the Vietnam War; he also participated in Aboriginal struggles against continued oppression and genocide of Aboriginal people. Ebel has practised as a radical existentialist psychotherapist.
Recent articles by John-Janusz Ebel
3 February 2025
'Never Again' means no Holocaust against the Palestinian people right now!
Mark Dreyfus wrote an article in, The Guardian (29 January 2025) entitled, ' For my great-grandparents, for all Jews, for all humanity, I say never again '. Here is my response.
19 January 2025
End, end the Gaza genocide
Worshippers of Death, They will remain such, In the annals of human history. Never forgiven, Never forgotten, For the genocide, They perpetrated! ...
11 January 2025
Dreyfus' trip of liege homage
Mark Dreyfus, the Australian Attorney-General, is travelling to Israel to pay fealty to an indicted war criminal, Benjamin Netanyahu. Dreyfus, a member of the current Australian Labor government has not criticised the ongoing genocide.
10 November 2024
They will never return
I keep thinking Thinking about Palestinians People who have lost their lives Now tens if not hundreds of thousands
4 October 2024
Why I can't celebrate the Jewish new year
I am a cultural Jew because I am an atheist. I cannot celebrate the Jewish New Year because of the continuing horror in Gaza, and now in Lebanon.
2 October 2024
Alice in the Australian Wonderland as government demonises victims of terrorism
The context to my article below is today's extreme media, and Dutton's and the Albanese government's hysteria regarding the appearance of the Hezbollah flag at this week's protest against the Gazan genocide and bombing of Beirut in Melbourne.
23 August 2024
Dutton's psychological projection
I write as a child of Holocaust survivors because I am disturbed by the demagoguery engaged by the leader of the Opposition, Peter Dutton, labelling hapless Palestinian refugees as potential terrorists.
24 June 2024
The fascist wave must be defeated
The antecedents of the far-right in France, Italy, Spain, Holland, Germany and a number of other countries go back to its origins in Europe in the 1920s with the triumph of Italian fascism.
25 May 2024
A message to university Vice-Chancellors from a child of holocaust survivors
Let me introduce myself. I am a child of Holocaust survivors. My mother survived Auschwitz and my father fought the Nazi war machine as a partisan during the Second World War. Ninety-eight percent of my extended family perished during the Holocaust.
17 May 2024
Pro-human rights Jewish students facing intimidation from vigilantes linked to repressive Israeli state
Jewish students in Western countries are increasingly facing forms of transnational repression from vigilante groups linked to the repressive Israeli state. These groups are allegedly using violence and intimidation on university campuses in coordinated strategies to curtail freedom of speech.
11 May 2024
Instigators of violence
Does David Crowe, a journalist at the Australian Financial Review, Sydney Morning Herald and the Age want to be regarded as the instigator of violence against students protesting the Gazan genocide?
26 December 2023
The alternative to the Worship of Death
A central characteristic of narcissistic sadists according to the great psychoanalyst, Erich Fromm, is their desire to reduce all living matter to dead matter. Fromm describes these narcissistic sadists as necrophilious characters.
3 December 2023
Imminent genocide in Gaza
I write this brief letter and appeal on this fifty-second day of conflict between the Israeli government and the hapless population in Gaza. I also write as a child of Holocaust and concentration camp survivors.
2 December 2023
Poem: The Second Nakba
I wake up and I check The radio News I dread I hear the authoritative voice The Newsreader then Israeli government Spokesman Terrorists, the terrorists Hiding under the Hospitals Under the Kindergartens Under the Schools The colonial narrative Always Baying for more dead No electricity, no water No food, no shelter What will happen Hapless Gazans I worry Starvation dehydration trauma Trauma for life Trauma for the unborn Flight desperation The Will to Live I look at photos, hospital photos Wreckage, electric cables hanging From missing ceilings Dead people, Dead children Faces full of unimaginable fear...
21 October 2023
The morally righteous
The Lords Of Humankind are not morally righteous. They are Saturn devouring his children. And they do have human form.