The sentiment is clear on the streets of Kuala Lumpur (Image: Shutterstock)

Malaysia’s recalcitrant antisemitism

November 8, 2024 | Allon Lee

No one in Malaysian politics ever suffered reputational damage for expressing antisemitic or extreme anti-Israel opinions. Quite the opposite, in fact.

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Gaza polio clinic blast coverage a classic case of ABC bias

November 7, 2024 | Ahron Shapiro

The welfare of children in a war zone is a sensitive and emotionally loaded subject, which is why the care journalists must use to report accurately and responsibly on stories that involve them is that much greater. Yet the ABC failed to meet the appropriate standards as outlined in its charter regarding a story revolving around this topic last weekend

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The secret history of  UNIFIL’s relationship with Hezbollah

November 6, 2024

Israeli Settlements Near Bethlehem

Report: Approvals for West Bank settlement expansion ‘stuck’

November 4, 2024

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Australia is not immune to Amsterdam’s hate

November 20, 2024 | Rebecca Davis

Here is the thing about fear: sometimes it’s rational, sometimes it’s just… fear. But this is the reality of the world to which I have been forced to adapt in the wake of Hamas’ October 7 terror atrocities, as my community suffers through an ever-increasing scourge of Jewish hate worldwide, including here in my beloved city of Melbourne.

UNRWA headquarters in Gaza (Image: Anas Mohammed/ Shutterstock)

Global community incensed by Israel’s banning of UNRWA should consider its ugly history

November 8, 2024 | Justin Amler

UNRWA is an organisation that is designed not to help people rebuild their lives and thrive, but to hinder them from doing so in the name of politicised goals.

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Letter: Wong got it wrong

November 7, 2024 | Jamie Hyams

Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s November 6 opinion piece on the Middle East is very disappointing. The casualty figures come directly from Hamas, so at the very least are dubious, while it’s simply untrue 2 million people – Gaza’s entire population – are facing starvation.

UNRWA is portrayed as the “backbone” of Gaza aid efforts, but actually supplied only 13% of aid there over recent months (Image: Anas Mohammed/ Shutterstock)

An empire of perpetual suffering

November 20, 2024 | Seth Frantzman

In the wake of Israel passing two bills that essentially block the activity of the UN Relief and Works Agency in areas under Israeli control, UNRWA’s work is under scrutiny.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong and PM Anthony Albanese have degraded our relationship with our most important Middle Eastern partner (Screenshot)

The consequences of Australia’s Mideast policy shifts since October 7

November 20, 2024 | Jamie Hyams

The events of October 7 and its aftermath have severely traumatised Australia’s Jewish community. In several regards, Australian reactions to those events, including from our Federal Government, have been extremely disappointing, compounding the trauma and creating feelings of isolation and betrayal.

An extension of the Abraham Accords that saw a string of Middle Eastern countries making peace with Israel is likely to be a priority (Image: Whitehouse.gov/ Flickr)

Trump and the Middle East

November 20, 2024 | Ray Takeyh

The new Trump Administration is sure to revive its two trademark policies toward the Middle East that proved successful last time around.

French UNIFIL soldiers in southern Lebanon (Image: Shutterstock)

Lebanon: Optimism and obstacles

Nov 20, 2024

Rabbi Genende (3rd from left) with Christian and Muslim delegates at the Abrahamic Peace Working Group conference in Bandung, Indonesia

The Last Word: Abrahamic angst and aspirations

Nov 20, 2024

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Media Microscope: Resolutionary change

Nov 20, 2024

Protests on the streets of Auckland (Image: Rick Neves/ Shutterstock)

AIR New Zealand: Rising antisemitism in NZ is ignored

Nov 20, 2024

Saddam Hussein astonished everyone with his WMD achievements in the 1980s, and then by secretly dismantling the program in the 1990s (Image: X)

Biblio File: Blind man’s bluff in Iraq

Nov 20, 2024

Projections upon buildings in Doha, Qatar, after the death of Ismail Haniyeh (Image: X)

Qatar obfuscates over Hamas

Nov 20, 2024

BRICS and its "partner countries" (Image: BRICS website)

Asia Watch: Among friends 

Nov 20, 2024

“Don’t cry – smile a little. It’s best to smile, even to laugh, as long as you still can” – the final message of renowned Holocaust historian Prof Yehuda Bauer (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

Essay: “We don’t have another people”

Nov 20, 2024

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Noted and Quoted – December 2024

Nov 20, 2024