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“In calling for a permanent ceasefire now, it leaves Hamas in place”: Colin Rubenstein on Sky News
“In calling for a permanent ceasefire now, it leaves Hamas in place”: AIJAC’s Colin Rubenstein on Sky News, 16 January 2024
Read MoreIsrael & Jewish world “extremely distressed” at events of past 100 days: Colin Rubenstein on SkyNews
Sky News’ Kevin Heatley interviews AIJAC’s Dr Colin Rubenstein on the ongoing conflict in the war against Hamas.
Read MoreAIJAC disappointed FM Senator Penny Wong not visiting Israeli communities devastated on October 7
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) expressed its disappointment that Foreign Minister Senator Penny Wong won’t be visiting any of the southern Israeli communities devastated in the October 7 Hamas atrocities during her current visit to the country.
Read More100 days on, the trauma has not dissipated
For Israelis, October 7 was cataclysmic and transformational, like September 11, 2001 was for the US, only more so… These events left a collective and still unhealed scar on not just the seven million Jews of Israel, but Jews the world over.
Read MoreAustralia needs to join the US and UK in sanctioning Hamas and Iran
Australia has not sanctioned Iran for its material support of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine since March 20 despite the drastically increasing levels of this support. Its most recent sanctions against Iran, for any reason, were imposed three months ago.
Read MoreSouth Africa’s ICJ “genocide” case against Israel “cynical and politicised act of lawfare”
South Africa’s contention in its International Court of Justice (ICJ) claim – that Israel’s actions to combat terror in the wake of the October 7 wave of unprovoked mass murder, rape, torture and kidnapping directed largely against civilians inside Israeli territory amount to the crime of genocide – is clearly absurd
Read More‘From the River to the Sea’ is the Postmodern ‘Hep! Hep!’
‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ is a new attempt to deny any Jewish claim to national self-determination in the land of Israel, to deny Jewish indigeneity in the land of Israel, despite our unbroken and documented presence on the land for almost 4,000 years, and ascribe indigeneity solely to another people.
Read MorePropaganda and “Fake Journalists” in Gaza
When two Al Jazeera journalists were killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza this past Sunday, the predictable response from some was that Israel must be deliberately targeting journalists.
Read MoreThe end of judicial reform, and the beginning of healing
This reform was aimed at reducing what right-wing supporters believed to be excessive powers held by the courts… However, for millions of Israelis, the suggested reform was seen as a direct attack on the fragile democratic structure of the Jewish state.
Read MoreThe Gaza War as seen from Southeast Asia
The Hamas onslaught upon Israel on October 7 and the resulting military response by Israel prompted a wide range of responses across Southeast Asia.
Read MoreThe UN’s disgraceful response to Hamas massacre can’t go unchallenged
It should have been the easiest thing in the world to do — for the United Nations to unequivocally condemn the brutal and unprovoked Hamas terror attack that killed 1,200 Israelis, and led to the capture of more than 200.
Read MoreHamas is the cause, not the effect, of Israeli policies
Hamas is the cause, not the effect, of the policies they decry, and October 7 has no relation to settlements in the West Bank, the blockade of Gaza or any other Israeli policy. To deny this is to deny history and ignore Hamas’ description of itself and its ideology and motives.
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