Aid trucks at the Kerem Shalom crossing (Image: Shutterstock)

Contrary to news stories, aid is getting to north Gazans without UNRWA’s help

March 26, 2024 | Ahron Shapiro

In addition to misleading headlines, most failed to provide important context that the IDF has been coordinating large amounts of aid through other channels, rendering UNRWA’s non-participation irrelevant. Moreover, the IDF says UNRWA had not actually even requested to send an aid convoy to north Gaza for some six weeks.  

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Four Corners “Forever War” episode reflected the endless crusade of its creator, John Lyons

March 15, 2024 | Ahron Shapiro

“The Forever War,” screened March 11, was an ABC “Four Corners” episode…

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“Anti-Zionism” is illegitimate and immoral regardless of whether or not it is antisemitic

March 12, 2024

Crowds gather for prayer at Jerusalem's Temple mount (Image Professionals GmbH / Alamy Stock Photo)

Ramadan and the Israel-Hamas ceasefire negotiations

March 8, 2024

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After the Israel-Hamas ceasefire for hostages deal

Screenshot of Hamas bodycam footage as terrorists approach an Israeli vehicle during the terror organisation's October 7, 2023 attack in southern Israel, released by the IDF and GPO (Screenshot)

Horror on Video / International Law and the Hamas War

Memorial composed of photos of young Israelis killed during the terrorist attack on the NOVA Festival which took place on October 7, 2023 a few kilometers from Gaza (Image: Jose Hernandez/ Camera 51/ Shutterstock)

The world’s ‘Triple Standard’ against Israel endangers global security

March 28, 2024 | Justin Amler

The question needs to be asked, what would these countries do if they were attacked by dozens of brutal death squads, encompassing thousands of terrorists, who inflicted mass murder, torture, and rape on 22 civilian towns?

UNRWA's Gaza headquarters (Image: Shutterstock)

Backing UNRWA will not bring Middle East peace

March 20, 2024 | Colin Rubenstein

Given there are clear aid delivery alternatives, as well as UNRWA’s documented collusion with terrorists, the Australian Government’s decision makes little sense. By restoring funding, it will be undermining its own primary foreign policy goal in the Middle East, namely encouraging a negotiated resolution involving two states living in peace.

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Anti-Zionism is an abhorrent ideology, regardless of antisemitism

March 19, 2024 | Oved Lobel

If the massacres and kidnappings on October 7 and the humanitarian consequences of Israel’s war of self-defense in Gaza are not desirable outcomes — and if people still believe in the international order and the illegitimacy of advocating genocide and the destruction of recognized UN member states — then anti-Zionist advocacy of any sort must be socially and politically stigmatized regardless of whether anti-Zionism is considered antisemitic.

A barrage of words charged with venomous lies targets Australian Jews daily (Image: Shutterstock)

The Last Word: Words – Holy and hateful

March 28, 2024 | Rabbi Ralph Genende

All religions have their difficult texts – narratives that are puzzling and ethically challenging. Texts that deride other religions and, when read by fundamentalists who take them literally, can be downright dangerous.

The 2020 International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Ministerial Declaration (Image: US Dept of State)

Europa Europa: Empty words

March 28, 2024 | Alex Benjamin

Today, across Europe, reported or documented cases of antisemitism have gone through the roof since October 7. In places where there is proper data collection – such as the UK, Spain and France – the rise is over 1000%. Even prior to the Hamas pogrom, the numbers were already concerning. 

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Biblio File: The Education of an Editor

March 28, 2024 | Allon Lee

Gawenda documents his growing recent alienation from his ideological home on the Left, which has turned against Israel and Jews who support it, meaning most of world Jewry. A three-time Walkley Award winner, he examines the historical processes that have led to this fissure and does so in an Australian context, which is a rarity.

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A plan for Gaza

Mar 28, 2024

The IDF has become familiar with Hamas' labyrinth of tunnels, using specialised units to fight inside them (Image: IDF)

Deconstruction Zone: The political purpose of Hamas’ tunnels

Mar 28, 2024

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Media Microscope: Crossed Lyons

Mar 28, 2024

Soldiers in the Etzion Brigade take part in a raid in the Gush Etzion village of Seir al-Shuyukh (Image: Jonathan Spyer)

West Bank story 

Mar 28, 2024

John Lyons in “The Forever War” (Screenshot)

The endless crusade behind Four Corners’ “Forever War” 

Mar 28, 2024

Palestinian charitable organisations distribute food “takiya” to displaced people in the city of Rafah (Image: Shutterstock)

A Gazan’s call for peace and coexistence

Mar 27, 2024

Hamas spokesperson Abu Obaida: A hero across the Arab world (Screenshot)

Essay: The Face of Hamas

Mar 27, 2024

A truck carrying food and other humanitarian aid moves through a security checkpoint at Kerem Shalom, Israel, into the Gaza Strip on March 14 (Image: Charlotte Lawson)

The battle to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza

Mar 27, 2024

Indonesian Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto shakes hands with United Arab Emirates President Mohammed bin Zayed at the inauguration of the UAE-funded Sheikh Zayed Solo Mosque, in Solo, Central Java, November 14, 2022 (Image: Facebook/ Prabowo Subianto)

Asia Watch: All in the timing

Mar 27, 2024