Featured
Somaliland – Israel sets a moral example via recognition
Why did Israel officially recognise Somaliland, the Muslim-majority breakaway African state that had, until Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar’s unexpected announcement on December 26, spent 34 years being internationally ignored?
Read MoreStatement on the return of hostage Ran Gvili
The recovery and return of Ran Gvili’s body brings a measure of closure to an unimaginable ordeal that begin with the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7th.
Read MoreAntisemitism in schools not surprising: Joel Burnie on Sky News
AIJAC executive manager Joel Burnie discussed PM Albanese’s apology to the Jewish community over the Bondi attack, reports of antisemitism in NSW schools and the new Hate Speech laws with Sky News’ Danica Di Giorgio.
Read MoreInternational law claims unfounded: Unpublished letter to the Sydney Morning Herald/ Age
One does not need to be an international law scholar to know that there is absolutely no law, treaty or convention that affords any kind of legal right to kill civilians, take hostages, or carry out terror attacks. On the contrary, international law, including the Geneva Conventions, is explicitly clear in outlawing this.
Read MoreA day to come together as a nation: Joel Burnie on Sky News
AIJAC executive manager Joel Burnie spoke with Sky News’ Kieran Gilbert to discuss the National Day of Mourning for the Bondi terror attack.
Read MoreLeft wants this cruel regime
For the motley collection of far-left and Islamist zealots comprising the movement, the lodestar is perpetual and total war against Israel until its destruction, and the lynchpin of this war is the jihadist imperial regime ruling Iran. Anything or anyone that undermines that regime is therefore an enemy.
Read MoreAIJAC welcomes Hate Crimes legislation
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) welcomes the passage through Parliament of Hate Crimes legislation yesterday, and thanks both the Government and the Liberal Party for their hard work and good faith in putting together a workable compromise to allow it to pass.
Read MorePassing Hate Crimes bill “incredibly important”: Arsen Ostrovsky on 2GB
AIJAC’s Arsen Ostrovsky spoke to 2GB’s Mark Levy about the hate crimes bill passed in parliament yesterday.
Read MoreClimate of hateful words behind antisemitic attack: Rebecca Davis on 3AW
AIJAC digital editor Rebecca Davis spoke to 3AW’s Jacqui Felgate about her reaction to the anti-Semitic attack upon a group of Jewish teenage boys on their way home from night school in St Kilda East.
Read MoreWriters’ block at the Adelaide Writers’ Festival
The Adelaide Writers’ Week festival, far from being about the free exchange of ideas, remains what it has long been, an exercise in political grandstanding and virtue signalling.
Read MoreFirst, we mourn. And mourn again. Then, life must go on
This past week we observed the sheloshim for Bondi. For the past month, our beautiful Bondi, bereft of 15 of her children, wounded by her injured offspring, has been in mourning, marked by blood and broken bodies instead of beach and bronzed bodies. No garland of flowers around her lovely neck, just a heaping of wreaths at her feet.
Read MoreAIJAC Submission regarding the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026
AIJAC supports the intent and general thrust of this bill, which seeks to address multiple intersecting policy areas – from weapons to migration to racial vilification and incitement – related to social cohesion, security and antisemitism, while protecting religious freedoms.
Read More