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ABC misrepresents Hamas’ hostages-for-ceasefire offer, Israel’s rejection of it
ABC reporting on breaking news in Israel last night (this morning, February 8, Australia time) regarding Hamas’ terms for a hostage-for-ceasefire deal proposal and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s negative response to it was so wildly inaccurate and misleading that it warrants such corrections, and soon.
Read MoreGreens ceasefire call ignores why Gaza war started: Joel Burnie on Sky News Australia
“It troubles our whole Jewish community to have a political party such as the Greens calling for an immediate ceasefire but forgetting why the war actually started…”: AIJAC Executive Manager Joel Burnie speaks to Chris Kenny on Sky News Australia, 7 February 2024.
Read MoreFact Sheet: South Africa, Hamas, and the ICJ “genocide” case against Israel
This fact sheet brings together information about South Africa and the African National Congress (ANC) which suggests that South Africa today is no longer the country of Nelson Mandela, and the ICJ case against Israel has very little to do with kinship for the “oppressed”, and more to do with Pretoria’s increasing alignment with radical actors, including Hamas – as well as, possibly, cynical self-interest.
Read More“The police statement does not make the event that occurred on that evening any better” – Joel Burnie on Sky News
AIJAC Executive Manager Joel Burnie discussed the police investigation into the chants at the infamous pro-Palestinian protest at the Sydney Opera House with Kieran Gilbert on Sky News Australia, 2 February 2024.
Read MoreThe double survival gambit behind the brewing Israel-Hamas hostage deal
Months of painstaking negotiations, mediated by the US, Egypt and Qatar, have led to a new package deal that the two sides are now weighing up.
Read MoreIsrael’s enemies try and fail to help Hamas terrorists
Although it’s regrettable the ICJ did not throw out the meritless case altogether, it is clear South Africa’s disgraceful attempt to weaponise the Genocide Convention against Israel in support of Hamas failed.
Read MoreAfter the atrocities of 7 October and amid the devastation in Gaza, remembering the Holocaust rightly is a moral obligation
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” These words of the philosopher George Santayana have been on my mind as we approach International Holocaust Remembrance Day this year. But I fear that those who distort the memory of the Shoah in light of the conflict in Gaza may be doing something even worse…
Read MoreNetanyahu’s critics ignore Israel’s right to security, peace
Netanyahu’s actual arguments about why Israel needs security control over the West Bank and Gaza make considerable sense. Netanyahu said, “All territory we evacuate, we get terror, terrible terror against us,” citing Gaza, southern Lebanon and parts of the West Bank. Historically, he’s not wrong…
Read MoreAIJAC pleased ICJ permitted Israel’s just war of self-defence against Hamas to continue
Yesterday’s decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in its preliminary orders regarding South Africa’s case against Israel was a mixed result, but the most important aspect was that there was no order for Israel to cease its just military campaign in Gaza.
Read MoreWas October 7 an act of genocide?
Based on the Srebrenica precedent, a theoretical case for October 7 being a crime of genocide suddenly becomes much stronger. The number of those killed need not be measured against the entire Jewish population of Israel, but only those kibbutzim and towns of Israel that Hamas controlled in the so-called “Gaza envelope”. The substantiality requirement would thus arguably be fulfilled.
Read MoreHamas gladly puts its people in harm’s way
[Hamas] believe[s] that if they can convince Israel’s Jews that they will never be safe in Israel, they will leave. This is why the Hamas October 7 massacres featured such calculated brutality.
Read MoreAIJAC welcomes new Australian sanctions targeting Hamas, Hezbollah, PIJ and the IRGC
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) welcomes the announcement of additional Australian sanctions targeting terrorism financing, and listing 12 persons and three entities linked to Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and, most importantly, their overseer, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps – Qods Force (IRGC-QF).
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