Chris Sidoti (left), Navi Pillay and Miloon Kothari, the three commissioners of the perpetual UN inquisition against Israel, briefing the media in October 2022 (Image: Lev Radin/Shutterstock)

Sydney Peace Prize honours long record of twisted morality

November 5, 2025 | Arsen Ostrovsky

By choosing to honour Pillay, the City of Sydney and Sydney University are sending a dangerous message: that antisemitism and double standards, cloaked in the language of human rights to vilify Israel, are acceptable, and indeed to be rewarded with public platforms and taxpayer funds. Australia has long prided itself on fairness, integrity and moral courage. To honour Navi Pillay under the banner of “peace” is to betray those very values.

The Rapid Support Forces cheer after their capture of El Fasher (Image: Screenshot)

Why do Gaza hypocrites ignore African horrors?

November 4, 2025 | Arsen Ostrovsky

If the blood of innocents staining Sudanese soil is visible even from space yet invisible to the human rights world below, our problem isn’t blindness. It’s wilful hypocrisy and moral decay.

Gaza, 2025 (Image: Anas Mohammed/ Shutterstock)

To rebuild Gaza, remember how Germany rose from the rubble

October 31, 2025 | Bren Carlill

If it is serious about ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the world must treat Hamas’ defeat as the defeat of an existential ideology – just like it did with the Nazis – rather than merely a border dispute to be negotiated away.

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After the War: Israel’s revival, America’s power, and the Palestinian narratives

November 7, 2025 | Ran Porat

The war in Gaza appears over – at least for now… This is an opportune moment to examine what the conflict meant for the three key players: Israel, the United States, and the Palestinians.

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The IRGC and its criminal proxies

November 4, 2025 | Oved Lobel

While Iran’s long-standing global links to criminal networks to conduct surveillance, harassment or attacks demonstrate malign intent and the desire for deniability, it also reflects Iran’s extreme weakness and desperation, which forces it to rely on unknown freelancers, incompetent criminals and organised crime groups already penetrated by local law enforcement and domestic intelligence agencies.

Israeli PM Netanyahu in the Knesset, flanked by President Herzog (centre) and speaker Amir Ohana (GPO/ Flickr)

In the wake of the Gaza ceasefire, Israel’s election countdown begins

October 30, 2025

Palestinians crowd at a local street market in Rafah (Image: Anas Mohammed/ Shutterstock)

Palestinians, “armed action” and the impact of the Gaza war

October 30, 2025

Many believe that a new form of antisemitism has emerged: anti-Zionism. Rather than focus on the individual Jew or Judaism or the Jewish “race”, the target is the Jewish state, and "Zionists", those who support its existence (Image: Shutterstock)

Essay: Antisemitism – What everyone needs to know

September 19, 2025 | David Harris

Above all, antisemitism is an enduring and infinitely adaptable conspiracy theory. It ascribes to Jews, as a group, malevolent characteristics and aims. Even if historical circumstances should change over time, those essential characteristics and aims do not.

Houthi rebel fighters in Sana’a, Yemen (Image: Alamy Live News)

Remnant of resistance

September 19, 2025 | Oved Lobel

For Israel, Ansar Allah remains more of an irritant than a genuine threat.

President Harry Truman with Secretary of State George Marshall in 1948 (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

Biblio File: Was Israel an “Imperialist” creation?

September 19, 2025 | Paul Monk

This book is a superb piece of historical research. It ought to have been required reading for anyone reacting to the Hamas atrocities of October 7, 2023 or claiming to put the subsequent war in perspective.

Ted Deutch (Image: American Jewish Committee)

“Speaking with clarity”

Sep 19, 2025

Street protest in Melbourne (Image: Shutterstock)

Keeping Faith: Swept away – Life inside an avalanche

Sep 19, 2025

The post-October 7 world (screenshot)

Cinefile: Terror after terror

Sep 19, 2025

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Media Matters: Starved for Balance – The ABC’s coverage of Gaza’s famine claims

Sep 19, 2025

A sign of the times (CNN screenshot)

Washington Heights: Relationship troubles – The anti-Israel evolution of the US Democratic party

Sep 19, 2025

UNIFIL has been present in southern Lebanon for 47 years and effectively facilitated, rather than constrained, Hezbollah’s vast illegal arms build-up in the area (Image: Shutterstock/ Sebastian Castelier)

UNIFIL’s end

Sep 19, 2025

Anti-Israel sentiments dominate the streets of Jakarta (Image: Shutterstock)

Asia Watch: Downward trend

Sep 19, 2025

NZ Greens MP Chloe Swarbrick (Image: Reddit)

AIR New Zealand: “Not Yet and Not Until” – debating Palestinian statehood 

Sep 19, 2025

Antoine al Kazzi, editor of Australia’s best-known Arabic language newspaper, El Telegraph

Australia’s extremists in full flight

Sep 19, 2025