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China could be the key to the success of the renewed “snapback sanctions” on Iran

October 3, 2025 | Alana Schetzer

This week saw the reinstatement of comprehensive UN sanctions on Iran under the “snapback” mechanism of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear agreement, after the UK, France and Germany triggered this process in late August, citing Iran’s blatant non-compliance with the deal’s provisions. 

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Abbas said some positive sounding things in UN speech – pity they are so far-fetched

September 30, 2025 | Oved Lobel

It seems clear the Abbas-led PA is not capable of real reform, as it has demonstrated for decades. But even if it were, it has almost no support among Palestinians and no means of enforcing its writ even in the West Bank, much less Gaza. Unless and until that changes, Abbas’ commitments and call for peaceful coexistence in this speech will remain as symbolic and meaningless as the recognition of Palestine by Australia and other Western countries. 

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Media Matters: The ABC’s blind spot

August 17, 2025 | Allon Lee

Towns and villages flattened as far as the eye can see. Exhausted civilians desperately seeking an end to their misery but led by a pitiless leadership that refuses to surrender. Not Gaza in 2025 – but Japan in the final months of World War II.

Fighters and military vehicles belonging to Syrian government forces intervene in the city of Sweida to enforce a ceasefire between Druze factions and Bedouin tribes. Syria, July 20, 2025 (Image: Shutterstock)

Druze crisis tested Israel’s Syria strategy

July 31, 2025 | Ilan Evyatar

A week-long outbreak of violence in southern Syria in mid-July exposed the fault lines and shifting regional and global alignments shaping Syria’s post-Assad future – and the challenges these pose to Israel’s strategic goals.

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Media Matters: Smoke and Ire over IHRA

July 30, 2025 | Allon Lee

Of course, the IHRA definition clearly states that “criticism of Israel similar to that levelled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic.” But you wouldn’t necessarily know this if you relied on the bulk of the commentariat favoured by the ABC, Guardian Australia and Nine Newspapers.

President Bill Clinton walks Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel and Yasser Arafat of the Palestinian Authority at Camp David, Maryland, July 2000 (Image: Wikipedia)

The silver anniversary of the silver bullet

July 29, 2025 | Bren Carlill

July 25 marked the 25th anniversary of the breakdown of the Camp David talks, which were supposed to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. The terrible situation in Gaza is a stark reminder of the need for peace. However, if we want to achieve that peace, we need to learn the lessons of Camp David and the last 25 years.

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Diaspora Iranians hope for more attention to the plight of the Iranian people

July 24, 2025 | Alana Schetzer

What are Iranians saying in the aftermath of the highly successful Israeli and US military strikes against the Iranian regime’s illegal nuclear weapons program, including the elimination of multiple top military commanders?

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An AIJAC letter the Sydney Morning Herald refused to publish

July 14, 2025 | AIJAC staff

In “Five Minutes with Fitz” (July 6) Melissa Parke says Iran was cooperating with nuclear inspectors prior to Israel’s strikes, and US intelligence and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) assessed Iran wasn’t developing a nuclear weapon.

Screenshot from a video showing radical Israeli rioters torching Palestinian homes in the West Bank town of Huwara in 2023

Myths and Facts about Settler violence

July 10, 2025 | Alana Schetzer

No one should deny that settler violence is real. Moreover, there is good reason to urge the Israeli government and authorities to do more to ensure that the relatively small number of settlers responsible – generally estimated to be no more than a few hundred out of a settler population of some 450,000 – are caught and prosecuted. But one does not have to share Regavim’s pro-settler agenda to see that the numbers being used in most media reports on the subject, derived from UN data, amount to a complete misrepresentation of the reality of this phenomenon.

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Israeli defence technology the rising star of Operation Rising Lion

July 8, 2025 | Ahron Shapiro

Israel’s 12-day aerial war with Iran between June 13 and June 24 – known in Israel by the name “Operation Rising Lion” – was a remarkably successful campaign in many ways, beginning with the opening strike that eliminated five groups of targets across the country almost simultaneously.

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Weekend Hebrew media update: Gaza, Iran and Israel

June 27, 2025 | Ahron Shapiro

Following the apparent conclusion of the 12-day Israel-Iran war, AIJAC once again brings you rare and exclusive interviews, fresh analysis and commentary from Hebrew Israeli media as some weekend reading.

Targeted Israeli strikes in Teheran (Source: Heute.at)

Inside Israel’s strike on Iran: The intelligence coups that made it possible

June 27, 2025 | Ilan Evyatar

According to Israeli sources, planning for the strike formally began in late 2024 – at the height of the war with Hezbollah – when Israeli intelligence recognised a convergence of opportunity, urgency and readiness

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