Defying expectations: Silent settlement freeze and outpost demolitions
July 19, 2024 | Ahron Shapiro
Given that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s coalition consists of right-wing or religious parties that are supportive of Israel’s West Bank settlements, it was expected that West Bank settlement activity would increase.
The truth about water in Gaza
July 12, 2024 | Alana Schetzer
One of the many libels hurled against Israel since Hamas started the current war on October 7 is the claim that Israel has weaponised water by deliberately denying its supply to Gazans. This is a falsehood that doesn’t stand up to basic scrutiny.
Australian multiculturalism was never a licence for ‘anything goes’
July 26, 2024 | Colin Rubenstein
Australia relies on a non-negotiable commitment to certain shared values, including parliamentary democracy and the rule of law; freedom of speech and religion; and the equality of the sexes.
A university is for a multiplicity of ideas
July 18, 2024 | Rabbi Ralph Genende
Our universities have created a culture of grievance, resentment and rage which is fertile ground for the kind of vituperative antisemitism we are witnessing.
Israel’s hardest war is fighting the lies waged against it
July 17, 2024 | Justin Amler
It’s a truly dystopian alternate reality when a country under existential threat from a brutal terrorist death cult rescues innocent hostages from its clutches and the world’s reaction is criticism and lamentation.
Essay: The Placard Strategy
July 4, 2024 | Einat Wilf
In the 130 years since Half Solace was published, the blood libels that Ahad Ha’am encountered in tsarist Russia were updated by its Soviet heirs to fit an age of greater literacy and sophistication. These refurbished libels were then exported to the West, where they flourish today, creating the same dangerous dynamic that alarmed Ahad Ha’am.
Deconstruction Zone: The conspiracy trap
July 4, 2024 | Dave Rich
Anti-Jewish conspiracy myths have a unique ability to adapt and thrive in any environment, trapping the unaware in their flawed and fatal thinking.
The Last Word: What is a university?
July 4, 2024 | Rabbi Ralph Genende
What we are witnessing on today’s Australian campuses is a shameful failure of leadership. It boggles the mind how a learned man like Sydney University Vice-Chancellor Mark Scott can engage in such tortured logic to justify the failure of his institution to live up to the purpose of the university in his dealings with anti-Israel protestors who have occupied his university’s campus.
