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A rabbi’s dream of Morocco
I felt more comfortable wearing my kippah in Moroccan cities than I often do in Melbourne CBD. The community may have shrunk to just several thousand, but in Casablanca you can find a minyan, kosher food and a Jewish school to send your kids. Most astonishingly, Jewish Dayanim sit as respected officials in the Casablanca Court.
Read MoreVenezuela, the Jews and the “Axis of Resistance”
Across history, it’s an old story: when societies struggle, many leaders find it easier to blame Jews than fix their own problems, as Venezuela demonstrates today.
Read MoreAIJAC welcomes listing of IRGC as state sponsor of terrorism
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) welcomes the listing of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a state sponsor of terrorism under the new framework created by the recently passed Criminal Code Amendment (State Sponsors of Terrorism) Act 2025.
Read MoreThe ABC: A Law unto Itself
A scandal involving the BBC’s news and current affairs coverage, including its reporting on the Hamas–Israel war, prompted similar analysis of the ABC. The ABC’s response was effectively, “Biased? Us?”
Read MoreMore unites Australia and Israel than divides
Even before it convened, it was a given that this year’s Australia-Israel Strategic Dialogue… was going to be especially memorable. In fact, the conference, co-hosted by AIJAC… exceeded expectations in many ways.
Read MoreSentencing for antisemitic vandalism “manifestly inadequate”: Joel Burnie on Sky News
AIJAC executive manager discussed with Sky News’ Sharri Markson the legal verdict that allowed the perpetrator of antisemitic and anti-Israel vandalism in Sydney to avoid a prison sentence.
Read MoreAustralia’s surrender of its streets
Despite laws prohibiting racial vilification under Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, this protest was approved explicitly targeting “Jewish lobby groups” and that should have immediately set off alarm bells. It didn’t.
Read MoreInternational hypocrisy on full display
A charter flight carrying about 150 Palestinians from Gaza arrived at Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International Airport in South Africa. It was a chance for South Africa to display the morality, principles and genuine compassion they had long preached about. They failed on all counts.
Read MoreIran is rearming as its ‘Axis of Resistance’ regroups – can Israel stop an inevitable war?
Can Israel stop an inevitable war?
Read MoreAIJAC condemns settler violence, calls for more preventative action by Israeli authorities
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) today condemned the escalating violence committed by settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank.
Read MoreAfter 50 years, the damaging legacy of “Zionism is racism” lives on
Fifty years ago this week, on November 10, 1975, the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the United Nations managed the considerable feat of achieving the nadir in its heinous history of appalling discrimination against Israel. It adopted General Assembly resolution 3379 declaring “that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.”
Read MoreHamas’ deadly deception is part of a pattern
On October 28th, in a sickening example of the deception and psychological warfare it wages on the public, Hamas attempted to deceive Israel and the world in a grotesquely staged show involving the remains of a murdered hostage.
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