Time for Egypt to be held to account
February 13, 2025 | Oved Lobel
US President Donald Trump seems to think Egypt can play a role in housing Palestinians while Gaza is rebuilt, or that it could otherwise contribute to Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts. He needs to think again; that is, unless Egypt’s past impunity is ended.
The latest IDF raid on the Kamal Adwan Hospital debunks absurd UN report
January 9, 2025 | Oved Lobel
This is the calibre of “analysis” one expects nowadays from anti-Israel activists masquerading as UN legal experts and officials. This is a pity, because there are genuine legal and ethical discussions to be had in terms of IHL, IDF conduct and medical units and facilities in Gaza being abused by Hamas. Unfortunately… few are interested in engaging in them.
Call out the causes of antisemitism
February 20, 2025 | Bren Carlill
We moved pretty quickly from graffiti, to arson, to a caravan filled with explosives, to nurses threatening to kill Israelis. Antisemitism has exploded in Australia, but many outside the Jewish community remain confused as to why.
Trumpquake: The international community’s weak response to Gaza
February 19, 2025 | Justin Amler
Whether his proposals for relocating Palestinians and turning Gaza into a “Riviera” of the Middle East are realistic is almost beside the point. His statements have once again highlighted the hypocrisy and triple standards applied to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Keep conflict out of hospital wards
February 18, 2025 | Ahron Shapiro
The murderous hatred expressed in the video towards Israelis stands in stark contrast to the situation inside Israel itself, where hospitals remain unsinkable islands of coexistence even amid the roughest seas of political tension.
The lamentations of Assad’s Australian admirers
January 30, 2025 | Ran Porat
These Australia-based fans of the ‘Butcher of Damascus’ also tend to be supporters of other autocratic regimes, such as Iran, China, Russia and North Korea. It is also no shock to learn that these people pin the blame for Assad’s fall on Israel, since most have records as serial proliferators of antisemitic tropes and wild conspiracy theories.
Trump’s UNRWA conundrum
January 30, 2025 | Robert Satloff
Over the course of the war, it became clear that Hamas terrorists were operating with impunity inside, near, or beneath numerous UNRWA facilities, storing weapons, assembling rockets, and organising their forces in the agency’s schools, shelters, hospitals, and clinics. The idea that UNRWA’s 30,000 officials and staff – nearly all of whom are Palestinian – were ignorant of this activity strains credulity.
