There is still time for the United States to save thousands of Iranians from a nightmarish fate
February 7, 2026 | Oved Lobel
It is already too late for thousands of Iranians, but there are still tens of thousands awaiting death, forced amputation, blinding, stoning, flogging, crucifixion, violent beatings, rape and other forms of horrendous torture who can be saved by timely US military intervention.
Israeli President Herzog’s visit a moment of leadership and hope
February 7, 2026 | Colin Rubenstein
President Herzog is not a political figure. He played no role in Israel’s prosecution of its just and necessary defensive war against Hamas… Rather, he is coming as the head of state to honour victims and survivors of Bondi, to meet with families and to express compassion at a moment of profound loss…
New UN reports confirm Gaza has ample food, was never in a famine
February 9, 2026 | Alana Schetzer
On January 5, the United Nations put out a media release acknowledging that “100 per cent of basic food needs” in Gaza were being met, though this was not reported widely. Indeed, there are still frequent media claims that not enough aid is entering Gaza, despite this UN acknowledgement.
Somaliland – Israel sets a moral example via recognition
January 27, 2026 | Alana Schetzer
Why did Israel officially recognise Somaliland, the Muslim-majority breakaway African state that had, until Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar’s unexpected announcement on December 26, spent 34 years being internationally ignored?
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.
