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.
Hamas’ so-called ceasefire “acceptance” is just spin to pressure Israel
May 7, 2024 | Ahron Shapiro
Australian news headlines this morning (May 7) were remarkably consistent. Firstly, they said, Hamas had agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza, and secondly, that Israel had not accepted it and was instead moving ahead with an attack on the southern Gazan city of Rafah, which borders Egypt. The assumptions underlying these stories are misleading…
Aid delivery and distribution in Gaza: Logistical and security bottlenecks
May 3, 2024 | Oved Lobel
COGAT, the UN and international aid agencies have long been trading accusations about who is responsible for aid shortages and bottlenecks. The answer is that no single party is to blame: aid distribution in any warzone, and particularly in Gaza, is incredibly dangerous and complex, and Israel has to balance military and security priorities with humanitarian aid needs.
Gaza protests not driven primarily by human rights concerns
May 3, 2024 | Oved Lobel
No encampments were set up across the world to protest the wars in Syria and Sudan, where so many more innocent Arab civilians died. And no other conflict has aroused the rabid passion and hate displayed against Israel, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
