Defying expectations: Silent settlement freeze and outpost demolitions
July 19, 2024 | Ahron Shapiro
Given that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s coalition consists of right-wing or religious parties that are supportive of Israel’s West Bank settlements, it was expected that West Bank settlement activity would increase.
The truth about water in Gaza
July 12, 2024 | Alana Schetzer
One of the many libels hurled against Israel since Hamas started the current war on October 7 is the claim that Israel has weaponised water by deliberately denying its supply to Gazans. This is a falsehood that doesn’t stand up to basic scrutiny.
Médecins Sans Frontières has lost its way
July 3, 2024 | Greg Rose, Tzvi Fleischer
MSF has a history of allowing terrorists to operate with impunity in its facilities, of tolerating and defending terrorist groups and of making highly political public statements, especially with regard to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – far from the ideal of neutral provision of aid.
Sydney University stabbing highlights issues in AIJAC submission on right-wing extremism
July 3, 2024 | Oved Lobel
As the details surrounding the incident become progressively clearer, the stabbing is beginning to look like a textbook case of what AIJAC described in its recent submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee inquiry into right-wing extremist movements in Australia, its previous submission to the Legal and Social Issues Committee’s inquiry into extremism in Victoria as well as in blogposts and articles.
Counting – and miscounting – Gaza aid trucks
June 20, 2024 | Alana Schetzer
The United Nations’ official data on the amount of aid being delivered to Gaza is not only unreliable but consistently undercounts the actual number of trucks going into the Strip.
Did Hamas accept ceasefire proposal? ABC can’t get its story straight
June 6, 2024 | Ahron Shapiro
Unfortunately, ABC TV “News” viewers who watched “News at Noon” shortly afterwards wouldn’t have known that Hamas was the main obstacle [to a ceasefire-for-hostage deal], because host Ros Child’s interviewee on the subject, ABC Global Affairs Editor John Lyons, claimed the opposite.
Iran uses pro-Palestinian students and criminals as proxies
June 5, 2024 | Ran Porat
The lesson from all of this should be clear: The so-called pro-Palestine student movement is in bed with violent, intolerant and reactionary forces – the antisemitic Iranian regime, which uses the students as proxies to spread instability in the West… The next time you see students shouting hateful slogans on campus against Jews and Israel, remember the reactionary and dark forces they are aligned with.
Rafah set to re-open, but aid had already been surging into Gaza without it
May 31, 2024 | Alana Schetzer
Egypt has reportedly finally agreed to reopen the Rafah Crossing in southern Gaza, following a three-week stand-off with Israel and the United States that began after the IDF took control of the crossing on the Gaza side on May 7.
New evidence continues to exonerate Israel in Rafah’s Tel al-Sultan tragedy
May 29, 2024 | Ahron Shapiro
An ongoing IDF investigation into Rafah’s Tel al-Sultan fire that killed a reported 45 displaced Gazans on Monday after a…
What we currently know about Rafah’s Tel al-Sultan tragedy
May 28, 2024 | Ahron Shapiro
Israel’s Channel 12 evening news reported (translated from the Hebrew) that the attack was carried out according to normal procedures, with targeting protocols and the use of smart bombs, which in similar attacks had generally kept collateral damage small. However, this time, a secondary explosion of some kind occurred.
Malaysia’s role in supporting Iran’s terrorism
May 23, 2024 | Alana Schetzer
Iran is using Malaysia as a gateway to finance its terrorism activities – including Hamas’ ongoing deadly attacks against Israel – according to the United States Government.
Claiming the International Court of Justice found accusations of genocide against Israel were “plausible” is just false
May 21, 2024 | Greg Rose
An ABC online report on May 15 2024 misreported a decision of the UN’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Israel. They said that the ICJ decided that South Africa’s “accusations of genocide were plausible.” Similar language has often been used by other media outlets as well.
