What I learned on Bondi beach
January 7, 2026 | Arsen Ostrovsky
Lying on the ground that balmy summer night in Sydney with blood still gushing from my head, having just learned that my wife and children had reached safety, I found myself reciting the Shema, the ancient and seminal Jewish declaration of faith.
I survived Bondi. Now a royal commission is critical
December 30, 2025 | Arsen Ostrovsky
Bondi should never have happened. We owe it to those who lost their lives, and those like me who survived this horror, to safeguard Australia’s democratic values and our shared future, and ensure that the conditions which allowed such hatred to grow are confronted, exposed and never allowed to repeat.
Antisemitism threatens the very fabric of a democratic, cohesive, fair go and safe Australia
December 28, 2025 | Justin Amler
In the immediate aftermath of the October 7 attacks, Federal and State governments failed to act against the open and brazen displays of hatred, igniting a powder keg still burning today. The recommendations of the PM’s own Antisemitism Envoy spent five months basically gathering dust.
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.
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.
Surviving Bondi
December 19, 2025 | Arsen Ostrovsky
I had just gone to get some food while my family sat down to watch the lighting of the menorah when the carnage began. I turned and ran towards my wife and children and was shot in the head. The doctors later told me that the difference between life and death was mere millimetres, and that it was a “a miracle” that I had survived.
The scene of the crime
December 19, 2025 | Ahron Shapiro
A return to the decimated Gaza border communities… What do the communities think about rebuilding even as Hamas reestablishes itself in Gaza?
After Bondi
December 19, 2025 | Colin Rubenstein
It is desperately important that Bondi must represent the beginning of a transformational watershed in Australia’s approach to the scourge of antisemitism that has plagued our country for more than two years. If it does not, this must raise very serious concerns about the future of Australia as a tolerant, multicultural liberal democracy, as well as of our own community.
