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War Update: Operation Rising Lion – Were the goals achieved?

June 25, 2025 | Ahron Shapiro

Today’s AIJAC Iran war update once again brings you rare and exclusive…

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War Update: Operation Rising Lion – Will the ceasefire hold?

June 24, 2025 | Ahron Shapiro

Today’s AIJAC Iran war update once again brings you rare and exclusive…

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War Update: Operation Rising Lion – US joins the fight

June 23, 2025

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War Update: Operation Rising Lion – Soroka Hospital struck

June 19, 2025

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Anti-Semitism: Very fabric of our society is in deep, dark danger

July 7, 2025 | Mark Leibler

Those who took to the streets of Melbourne are fundamentally driven by a ­hatred of Jews. Such people have always been here, but the murders, rapes and abductions that took place on ­ October 7, 2023, emboldened them. And as long as protests accompanied by chants of “Zionists are terrorists”, “death to the IDF”, “globalise the intifada” and “from the river to the sea” continue, violence directed at the Jewish community and its institutions will follow.

East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation (image: Flickr/Rexness)

Tragic shift on antisemitism should terrify us all

July 7, 2025 | Paul Rubenstein

This kind of hatred never stays contained. The history is clear: every society that has allowed itself to follow this path has ended up ashamed of where it arrived and inevitably in abject failure. So we must ask, urgently and clearly: is this really the road we want Australia to go down?

The East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation (image: Wikimedia Commons/Spud770)

Australia’s Antisemitism Problem Is No Longer Shocking—It’s Normalised

July 7, 2025 | Joel Burnie

Are Russian Orthodox  churches in Australia being attacked over the Ukraine war? Are Chinese Australians persecuted over the Chinese communist government’s treatment of the Uyghurs? Of course not. Individuals are not held responsible for the actions of foreign governments. Except, it seems, when it comes to Jews, who always seem to bear collective responsibility for anything bad happening in the world, including the alleged and often misrepresented actions of the State of Israel.

“Palestine” may have a flag, but it does not currently meet the criteria for statehood. Prematurely recognising it will not bring the day it does closer (Image: Shutterstock)

Nine reasons premature recognition would be bad for Palestine

May 28, 2025 | Bren Carlill

France and Saudi Arabia are co-hosting a UN conference this month about creating a Palestinian state. Before or during the conference, France will likely recognise Palestine as a state, and is urging other countries to join it. Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong keeps indicating she is considering similar recognition.

The raw anti-Israel hate on Western streets is a symptom of a deeper social malaise, writes Murray (Image: Shutterstock)

Biblio File: Israel and the pathologies of the West

May 28, 2025 | Peter Berkowitz

In On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization, Douglas Murray excoriates the Western hypocrisy, mendacity and malignancy that fuel enthusiasm for Hamas’ butchery of Jewish civilians and antipathy toward Israel’s exercise of its right to self-defence.

A wounded Palestinian arrives at Al-Najjar Hospital in the Gaza Strip (Image: Anas Mohammed/ Shutterstock)

Scribblings: Interpreting Hamas’ casualty numbers

May 28, 2025 | Tzvi Fleischer

The Hamas statistics show that combat-age men are far more likely to be killed, compared to their proportion of the population, than women, children or the elderly. Hamas data doesn’t differentiate between combatants and civilians, but the only sensible explanation for these numbers is that Israel is doing its best to target combatants.

The IDF’s new stategic plan calls for taking and holding Gaza regions until they can be completely cleared of Hamas fighters and infrastructure (Image: IDF)

“Gideon’s Chariots”

May 28, 2025

Trump’s surprise meeting with Syrian President and former jihadist Ahmed al-Shara’a (right), mediated by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (left) (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

Israel now on the Road to Damascus? 

May 28, 2025

Hamas negotiator Khalil al-Hayya has always rejected exile, but other Hamas leaders may be reconsidering (Image: Palestinian Information Center)

The Hamas deportation solution

May 28, 2025

“Operation Rough Rider” in the Red Sea (Image: US Navy)

A rough end to “Rough Rider” in Yemen

May 28, 2025

Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher falsely claimed that 14,000 babies will die in the next 48 hours (Image: UN)

Deconstruction Zone: Stop quoting the UN

May 28, 2025

Vibrant community: An alumni reunion of Johannesburg’s Yeshiva College (Image: Yeshiva College)

The Last Word: South Africa to Australia and back again

May 28, 2025

The theft of aid by Hamas has gravely affected humanitarian efforts (Image: X)

Editorial: A new chapter

May 28, 2025

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Noted and Quoted – June 2025

May 28, 2025

US President Trump with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh (Image: Flickr)

Trump’s landmark visit to the Gulf

May 28, 2025