Labor intervenes to protect the IRGC from terror listing
February 3, 2023 | Oved Lobel
The reluctance over – and indeed, seemingly coordinated campaign to avoid – listing the IRGC is puzzling. The IRGC is one of the oldest and most dangerous transnational terrorist organisations in the world, fulfilling all legislative and non-legislative criteria for listing under Australia’s Criminal Code.
Russia is the Iran of White Supremacy
January 31, 2023 | Oved Lobel
Australia doesn’t have a State Sponsor of Terrorism designation, but listing Wagner and RIM under the Criminal Code, aside from its practical impact, would send an important message to Russia that the Australian Government understands, even without such legislation, that it is one.
Israel will continue to act in self-defence against Palestinian terror
January 27, 2023 | Ran Porat
The escalating lawlessness has turned Jenin into a terror and crime hub, which will force Israel to continue to act there unless the PA steps in to stop the militants, who are also threatening its own legitimacy as the Palestinian government.
Australia once again the odd one out on Iran
January 25, 2023 | Oved Lobel
On Feb. 1, Australians will find out whether the Government’s inaction is simply due to bureaucracy or whether it is because the Government has very consciously opted to do nothing, now or in the future.
IRGC listing trend snowballing domestically and internationally
January 16, 2023 | Oved Lobel
It seems the only major political grouping to have not even mentioned the IRGC at all, much less the idea of listing it in its entirety under the Criminal Code, is the Government itself.
The latest pro-Palestinian meme: Israel as “Environmental Oppressor”
January 13, 2023 | Judy Maynard
Israel is regularly blamed for adversely affecting the health and well-being of Palestinians through environmental degradation. While the Palestinian Territories may in many senses constitute a toxic environment, it is one that the Palestinian leadership is largely responsible for creating.
Who’s Who in Israel’s new Government
January 6, 2023 | Ahron Shapiro
AIJAC’s guide to the ministers and other major players in the new government, listing the coalition parties and the ministries each one now holds.
Time for Australia to list the IRGC as a terrorist group
January 5, 2023 | Oved Lobel
Instead of simply playing catch-up with our allies, Australia should take the proactive step of acting to list the IRGC as a terrorist organisation under the Criminal Code.
Antisemitism scandal erupts around another UN Human Rights Council official
December 16, 2022 | Justin Amler
Francesca Albanese, the Special Rapporteur appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council to investigate the human rights situation in the “occupied Palestinian territories” wants us to believe she is an unbiased, impartial observer… [But] her past social media posts which appear to spread classical antisemitic tropes have gotten in the way.
Apparent mass amnesia at Brighton Secondary College hearing
December 6, 2022 | Tammy Reznik
The five ex-students claimed to have been the victims of antisemitic harassment, both verbal and physical, as well as threats to their safety on and off school grounds and via online platforms. They allege that the school, its principal and some teachers tolerated a culture of antisemitism and were negligent in their duty to protect their student
