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Tehran’s Russian Connection
Often dubbed the “resistance axis,” the IRGC is no ordinary national army but the vanguard of a multinational Islamic revolution—a supranational monolith whose nerve center is located in Iran… Occasional pragmatic feats notwithstanding, the Islamic Republic has never moderated its long-term ambition to substitute a broad theocracy for the existing regional (indeed global) political order.
Read MoreAIJAC commends Australia’s “No” votes on UN anti-Israel motions
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council commends the Australian Government for voting against three anti-Israel motions in the UN General Assembly on Dec. 1, New York time.
Read MoreIs Iran “breaking out slowly” towards a bomb?
The world is increasingly flying blind about what Iran is doing, with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) monitoring of Iran becoming severely limited, thanks to a deliberate policy by Teheran.
Read MoreGreens miss the mark with antisemitism policy
In November, the Australian Greens released a policy on fighting antisemitism. It is, to AIJAC’s knowledge, the first standalone antisemitism policy from any Australian political party.
Read MoreIranian Kittens in Cyberspace
In May 2020, Yigal Unna, head of Israel’s National Cyber Directorate, declared that “Cyber winter is coming and coming faster than even I suspected” after an Iranian cyberattack against water infrastructure in Israel; in July 2021, he announced “Cyber winter is here.”
Read MoreAIJAC welcomes two updates to Australia’s terrorist list
AIJAC commends the Australian Government for making two important updates to Australia’s terrorist list.
Read MoreA matter of patience: Tehran’s nuclear timeline versus Washington’s
The regime has been trying to break the economic siege by aligning itself with China and Russia and by illegally exporting oil to China and Venezuela. At the same time, it markets the ‘resistance economy’ as the rationale for the prolonged suffering of the Iranian people (though most Iranians see through this lie).
Read MoreEditorial: A new Mid-East defence network
As the US diplomatic effort to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons capability continues to be met with stalling tactics from Teheran, a new regional defensive alignment is coming into focus, with Israel at its epicentre.
Read MoreSubmission to the now-suspended Senate Inquiry into ABC and SBS Complaints Handling
It is the belief of the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) and other Australian stakeholders who have dealt with the respective organisations’ complaints procedures that the current system is broken and that complainants are not able to receive a fair hearing because the process is not genuinely independent.
Read MoreWhy we must call out Holocaust distortion
There is a name for the comparisons used by anti-lockdown protesters to Holocaust tropes – Holocaust distortion – and there is a case to be made for governments of all levels to do more to stamp it out.
Read MoreAssessing the Bennett-Lapid Government and prospects for 2022 – David Horovitz
David Horovitz, the founding editor of the Times of Israel, joined an AIJAC Live Online webinar of 15 November 2021.
Read MoreBennett-Lapid Gov’t passes budget, boosts Arab and Druze sectors
Israel’s first budget in three years received final Knesset approval on Friday morning, Israel time, ensuring the longevity of the Unity government of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Alternate Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and providing the foundation for the politically diverse coalition to advance a variety of policies. At the same time, in…
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