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Labor, Greens MPs denounce action on antisemitism in NSW
Regrettably, there are some Labor and Greens MPs who continue to spread the false claim that the IHRA definition will silence those who wish to criticise Israel.
Read MoreEditorial: Ukraine and the Israel obsession
At a time when Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine has created millions of refugees, levelled cities and killed untold numbers of Ukrainian civilians, it’s remarkable how much critical commentary on the war seems to be focused on Israel – a tiny country far removed, both geographically and geopolitically, from the fighting.
Read MoreLone Wolves? Islamic State sympathisers kill six Israelis in two attacks
Israeli supporters of the Islamic State ideology have been responsible for two terror attacks in Israel this week, raising fears that Israeli security services may have been caught off-guard by what may be only the beginning of a wave of IS-inspired terrorism.
Read MoreAIJAC Live Online with Dr. Jonathan Schanzer
Dr. Jonathan Schanzer, Senior Vice President for Research at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), discusses Iran, Russia and a potentially disastrous new US-brokered nuclear deal.
Read MoreAIJAC 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.
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