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Iran’s long war of aggression made US-Israeli strikes inevitable
The current operations should not be viewed as beginning a new war but as another phase in a long-running one. To pretend the conflict somehow begins only when Israel or the US respond directly to Iran’s aggression turns the spirit of the laws of armed conflict on its head.
Read MoreAIJAC applauds NSW proposal to ban IRGC/HUT symbols
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) has expressed its appreciation and support for the plans by the NSW government, introduced to parliament yesterday, to ban symbols associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Hizb ut-Tahrir (HUT).
Read MoreThe Fall of Grace
To see someone who had been honoured with the title of Australian of the Year for her fight for women’s rights and against sexual abuse and rape, dismiss her own principles when it comes to Israeli victims is astounding.
Read MoreThe Gaza gap
Instead, what emerges from the data is a political culture in which law is conditional, legitimacy flows from ‘resistance against Israel’ rather than administrative prowess, and political identity is embedded in religious meaning.
Read MoreEssay: Educating against antisemitism
In many ways, October 7 is the day that things changed for Jewish communities around the world. There was a shift in the atmosphere for Jews, a darkening of the skies. Anti-Jewish hatreds that had been largely marginal in our societies became open and proudly declared, by people unashamed of their prejudice. Hate crimes against Jews soared around the world.
Read MoreAustralia gripped by the plight of the Iranian women’s football team: Dionne Taylor on GB News
AIJAC communications manager Dionne Taylor discussed the dramatic asylum applications of several members of the Iranian women’s football team on GB News channel.
Read MoreAustralia’s crucial role in Iran’s next steps
The international community, including Australia, also has a responsibility to support a path that serves the Iranian people, helping ensure their aspirations for freedom, democracy, and human rights are realised, rather than allowing a return to the old status quo.
Read MoreThe Iran war is a strategic gamble with global consequences
The stated goals of the war include removing Iran as a regional threat, reducing its capacity to produce and fire ballistic missiles, and dismantling its remaining nuclear weapons program. Given the immense military superiority of the US and Israel over Iran… these aims are broadly achievable — though the measurability of these outcomes is expected to remain contested.
Read MoreAIJAC welcomes decision to list Hizb ut-Tahrir as a prohibited hate group
AIJAC has long called for Hizb ut-Tahrir to be formally proscribed, given its well-documented record of extreme Islamist ideology, antisemitic incitement and hostility to Australia’s democratic values.
Read MoreA moment of moral clarity
The eruption of open confrontation this past weekend should not have surprised anyone paying attention. The trajectory leading to the current conflict has been visible for decades. Iran represents an external and existential threat to the State of Israel, but also a severe threat to the wider world – including especially its Arab neighbours.
Read MoreOne word to embody Jewish identity
If there’s one word that embodies Jewish identity and consciousness, it’s zachor or remember. It’s repeated in one way or another some 169 times in the Tanach or Jewish Bible. It’s an imperative for every Jew.
Read MoreAntizionism fuels the hatred of Jews
The ideology animating the hostility that is reshaping Jewish life in Australia — antizionism — simply does not fit the prevailing mental model of antisemitism. Antizionism explicitly disavows both racial hatred and religious bigotry, framing itself instead as “political critique” of an “ideology”.
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