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Editorial: Atrocities demand Hamas’ rule must end now
On a certain level, you cannot call it truly surprising. Anyone who has looked at Hamas’ ideology and record – as we at AIJAC have – would know that it was morally capable of the unmitigated evil we saw on October 7.
Read MoreHamas treat their own people as “completely expendable”: Colin Rubenstein on Sky News
Dr Colin Rubenstein discussed Hamas’ callous tactics with Steve Price on The Kenny Report on Sky News, 30 October 2023.
Read MoreHamas’ extreme agenda to wipe out Jews and Israel cannot be ignored – Colin Rubenstein on Sky News
AIJAC executive director Dr Colin Rubenstein discussed the Israel-Hamas conflict on Sky News Afternoon Agenda with Kieran Gilbert, October 30, 2023.
Read MoreStatement on six former Australian Prime Ministers’ open letter on Israel and Hamas
Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) Executive Director Dr Colin Rubenstein today welcomed the open letter by six former Australian Prime Ministers on Israel and Hamas – saying “Australia should be grateful for the leadership they have shown”.
Read MoreStatement on Australia’s abstention in UN vote on Israel-Gaza resolution
Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) Executive Director Dr Colin Rubenstein today said he was pleased that Australia did not support an unsatisfactory UN General Assembly resolution on Gaza.
Read MoreAIJAC statement on Federal Minister Tony Burke’s comments
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) Executive Director Dr Colin Rubenstein today condemned comments by senior Federal Minister Tony Burke and said he had “crossed a line” – putting himself outside official Australian government policy.
Read MoreBlatant Misuse of International Law: “Proportionality”, “Collective Punishment” and “Genocide”
Not every example of the horrors of war is a war crime, nor every large number of deaths genocide. Pretending that they are does not make war less deadly and horrific; rather, by rendering the existing framework of international law of armed conflict completely unworkable, it actually helps makes wars both more likely and even more unconstrained.
Read MoreDistorting international law gives terrorist groups like Hamas impunity
The October 7 Hamas atrocities caused the largest loss of Jewish life on any single day since the Holocaust, and were characterised by a barbarity not seen since ISIS. And just as was the case with ISIS, peace will only have a chance when Hamas is no longer in a position to thwart it.
Read MoreThe Oct. 7 atrocities are already being forgotten
It should be simple: Israel experienced one of the worst, bloodiest, most inhuman terror attacks in modern times, perpetrated by a genocidal extremist group listed as a terrorist organisation in Australia and around the world. It has the right and duty under international law to do whatever is necessary to defend itself from this terror group, which in the current circumstances can only mean removing that terror group’s ability to run Gaza as a permanent armed terrorist camp. Why is this so hard for people to remember and understand?
Read MoreUnprincipled Western media outlets ‘amplify terrorism’ by parroting Hamas’ lies about the deadly Gaza hospital bombing
The last few years have seen an explosion of moral panic over the dangers of misinformation and disinformation. Yet it’s quite clear when it comes to Israel that many Western journalists are great purveyors of both, and seem constitutionally incapable of accurately reporting on the country, from the broader context down to the basic details.
Read MoreThe War against Israel’s Right to Self-Defence
The lies about the hospital are part of a larger campaign by Hamas, together with willing allies devoted to supporting Palestinian “resistance”, to prevent effective Israeli self-defence against Hamas following the worst one-day slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust.
Read MoreMass murder of Jews in Israel has sparked major upsurge of antisemitism internationally
In the wake of the mass murder of some 1800 Israelis by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, with at least 200 others abducted as hostages to Gaza, Jewish communities around the world have been reporting a major upsurge in antisemitism and antisemitic violence.
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