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AIJAC welcomes history-making NSW motion on antisemitism
AIJAC congratulates the NSW Parliament on making history, with the NSW Legislative Council becoming the first house of parliament in Australia to endorse the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism.
Read MoreIsrael’s humanitarian response in Ukraine continues a long Israeli tradition
As it so often does during times of crisis, Israel has committed tonnes of goods and hundreds of its finest diplomats, medics and humanitarian workers to help the people of Ukraine in the current war launched by Russia.
Read MoreLatest IAEA report: Iran now a whisker away from nuclear weapons capabilities
On March 3, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) published its latest report on Iran’s nuclear program… Iran continues its gradual and steady process of ‘breaking out slowly’ towards achieving nuclear weapons capabilities and the status of ‘nuclear threshold’ country.
Read MoreExplainer: Why do Iran, Syria and their proxies support Russia in the Ukrainian crisis?
The members of the so called ‘axis of resistance’ – the regimes of Syria and Iran, along with their proxies, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen – have sided with Russia, either directly and overtly as Syria has, or, in Teheran’s case, a bit more indirectly.
Read MoreNext up: A nuclear Iran
The US, together with Russia, China and the Europeans, are said to be finalising a virtually pointless, short-term deal that will remove sanctions from Iran and soon legitimise it as a nuclear armed state and regional powerhouse.
Read MoreAIJAC Live Online with Yuval Rotem
Yuval Rotem is an Israeli diplomat, who was Director General of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2016-2020. With a diverse coalition government led by Naftali Bennett, a new nuclear deal between world powers and Iran looming, and a changing international order, what will 2022 hold for Israel? Is 2022 shaping up as a year of difficulty or a year of opportunity for Israel?
Read MoreNew Study again confirms Israel has firm security reasons for controversial “Citizenship Law”
In the wake of Amnesty International’s widely discredited report labelling Israel an apartheid state, many pro-Palestinian activists have focused on the report’s claims about Israel’s controversial “Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law” passed in 2003, which bars Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza from automatically gaining residency rights in Israel if they marry an…
Read MoreIsrael uses Abraham Accords ties to encourage Middle Eastern allies to condemn Russia
The US has thanked Israel for lobbying its friendly neighbours and allies to vote in the UN General Assembly to criticise Russia’s brutal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
Read MoreRussia sends its pet neo-Nazis to kill Zelensky – while claiming to want to “denazify” Ukraine
There is no need to downplay the existence and danger of neo-Nazi and far-right groups in Ukraine – these are indeed real. But the country has a Jewish president whose grandfather fought the actual Nazis and much of whose family died in the Holocaust, and who won with over 70% of the vote. With Russia now hellbent on destroying Ukraine as an independent state as part of imperial revanchism under the guise of fighting Nazis, self-declared denazifier Putin might look to his own house first.
Read MoreAIJAC Live Online with Anna Borshchevskaya
AIJAC Live Online with Anna Borshchevskaya on Russia, Ukraine and implications for the Middle East.
Read MoreIran’s hard bargaining looks set to deliver a dangerous deal for international security
The eighth round of negotiations to resurrect the 2015 Iran nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA), which resumed in Vienna in mid-February, is looking likely to be the decisive one.
Read MoreAIJAC responds to NSW Parliamentary report on the public display of Nazi symbols
AIJAC thanks the NSW Parliament’s Standing Committee on Social Issues for its thoughtful consideration of the Crimes Amendment (Display of Nazi Symbols) Bill 2021.
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