Media Matters: The ABC’s blind spot
August 17, 2025 | Allon Lee
Towns and villages flattened as far as the eye can see. Exhausted civilians desperately seeking an end to their misery but led by a pitiless leadership that refuses to surrender. Not Gaza in 2025 – but Japan in the final months of World War II.
Qatar is no impartial observer in this war, the nation is a backer of Hamas
September 12, 2025 | Allon Lee
Israel’s unexpected and bold surgical strike on a building in the Qatari capital of Doha where Hamas’ senior leadership was meeting has attracted the usual international flak.
Claims of ‘genocide’ and intentional starvation are used to wage war against Israel
September 5, 2025 | Justin Amler
Yes, there is hardship in Gaza — sometimes severe. But to blame Israel is to ignore reality. Hamas began this war. Hamas steals the aid. The UN own figures show 90% of aid trucks are looted.
Letter in the Canberra Times: Comparisons are hurtful, flawed and they cross a line
September 3, 2025 | Jamie Hyams
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism has been adopted by 44 countries… Included in its examples of antisemitism are “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.” It should be self-evident that it is particularly hurtful to Jewish people, and completely baseless. Yet this is the entire basis of Mark Kenny’s appalling column…
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.
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.
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.
