Passing Hate Crimes bill “incredibly important”: Arsen Ostrovsky on 2GB
January 21, 2026
AIJAC’s Arsen Ostrovsky spoke to 2GB’s Mark Levy about the hate crimes bill passed in parliament yesterday.
Climate of hateful words behind antisemitic attack: Rebecca Davis on 3AW
January 21, 2026
AIJAC digital editor Rebecca Davis spoke to 3AW’s Jacqui Felgate about her reaction to the anti-Semitic attack upon a group of Jewish teenage boys on their way home from night school in St Kilda East.
Writers’ block at the Adelaide Writers’ Festival
January 19, 2026 | Justin Amler
The Adelaide Writers’ Week festival, far from being about the free exchange of ideas, remains what it has long been, an exercise in political grandstanding and virtue signalling.
First, we mourn. And mourn again. Then, life must go on
January 19, 2026 | Rabbi Ralph Genende
This past week we observed the sheloshim for Bondi. For the past month, our beautiful Bondi, bereft of 15 of her children, wounded by her injured offspring, has been in mourning, marked by blood and broken bodies instead of beach and bronzed bodies. No garland of flowers around her lovely neck, just a heaping of wreaths at her feet.
“Blame the Jews” conspiracy theories over Venezuela and Bondi prove nothing changes
January 16, 2026 | Alana Schetzer
It took just a few hours for “Zionists” to be blamed for what went down on January 4. Venezuela’s Acting President Delcy Rodríguez followed a well-worn path for the regime when she claimed in a televised address to the nation there were “Zionist overtones” to Maduro’s capture.
The Bondi massacre – one month later
January 13, 2026 | Justin Amler
One month after that terrible day, Australian Jews remain devastated. But that devastation has now hardened into anger, frustration, and a new determination. Simply put, we want answers.
Israel-obsessed activists’ hypocrisy exposed by their Iran silence
January 12, 2026 | Arsen Ostrovsky
Real human rights advocacy does not depend on the identity of the oppressor or the political utility of the victim. It depends on principle. And right now, such principle is sorely missing for so many of those who claim to be advocating for “human rights”.
What I learned on Bondi beach
January 7, 2026 | Arsen Ostrovsky
Lying on the ground that balmy summer night in Sydney with blood still gushing from my head, having just learned that my wife and children had reached safety, I found myself reciting the Shema, the ancient and seminal Jewish declaration of faith.
I survived Bondi. Now a royal commission is critical
December 30, 2025 | Arsen Ostrovsky
Bondi should never have happened. We owe it to those who lost their lives, and those like me who survived this horror, to safeguard Australia’s democratic values and our shared future, and ensure that the conditions which allowed such hatred to grow are confronted, exposed and never allowed to repeat.
Antisemitism threatens the very fabric of a democratic, cohesive, fair go and safe Australia
December 28, 2025 | Justin Amler
In the immediate aftermath of the October 7 attacks, Federal and State governments failed to act against the open and brazen displays of hatred, igniting a powder keg still burning today. The recommendations of the PM’s own Antisemitism Envoy spent five months basically gathering dust.
“I’m not religious but I started praying”: Arsen Ostrovsky in the Jerusalem Post
December 26, 2025
Arsen Ostrovsky was at Bondi for a Hanukkah celebration. Minutes later, he was injured in a terror attack, and Australia was forced to look at its Jewish community through the harshest possible lens.
When I called him afterward, I expected anger. Instead, he offered something quieter, and maybe more explosive: “I feel alive.”
Now is the time for healing, not laying blame
December 26, 2025 | Jamie Hyams
At this time we should all be prioritising the healing of those impacted by this tragedy, first and foremost the devastated Jewish community, and the prevention of further attacks. Those who put their own needs and politics above that are doing the entire country a grave disservice, and frankly, should take a good, hard look at themselves. They are part of the problem, not the solution.
