Foreign Minister Sen. Penny Wong at the ANU, Canberra (Image: Australian National University)

Peace won’t be achieved through speeches like Penny Wong’s

April 12, 2024 | Colin Rubenstein

The preconditions for a two-state peace are simply not in place, and extending such recognition before they are only makes it less likely these preconditions will ever be developed.

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Australia’s maverick response to WCK tragedy looking increasingly irrational

April 10, 2024 | Greg Rose

While Foreign Minister Senator Penny Wong’s dismay is understandable, the Australian government’s reaction since has displayed double standards and failures to understand either the military realities behind this accident or the relevant international law.

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Aid worker tragedy must not lead to permanent ceasefire

April 9, 2024 | Colin Rubenstein

It would only make matters worse if the tragic and horrific accidental killing of seven humanitarian aid workers from the World Central Kitchen on April 1, including Australian Zomi Frankcom… were to sabotage efforts to reach a temporary ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.

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“Full responsibility and accountability… but this incident does have certain context to it” – Joel Burnie on Sky News

April 5, 2024

AIJAC executive manager Joel Burnie discussed the Gaza war and the tragic killing of foreign aid workers with Kieran Gilbert on @SkyNewsAust, 4 April 2024.

Memorial composed of photos of young Israelis killed during the terrorist attack on the NOVA Festival which took place on October 7, 2023 a few kilometers from Gaza (Image: Jose Hernandez/ Camera 51/ Shutterstock)

The world’s ‘Triple Standard’ against Israel endangers global security

March 28, 2024 | Justin Amler

The question needs to be asked, what would these countries do if they were attacked by dozens of brutal death squads, encompassing thousands of terrorists, who inflicted mass murder, torture, and rape on 22 civilian towns?

UNRWA's Gaza headquarters (Image: Shutterstock)

Backing UNRWA will not bring Middle East peace

March 20, 2024 | Colin Rubenstein

Given there are clear aid delivery alternatives, as well as UNRWA’s documented collusion with terrorists, the Australian Government’s decision makes little sense. By restoring funding, it will be undermining its own primary foreign policy goal in the Middle East, namely encouraging a negotiated resolution involving two states living in peace.

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Anti-Zionism is an abhorrent ideology, regardless of antisemitism

March 19, 2024 | Oved Lobel

If the massacres and kidnappings on October 7 and the humanitarian consequences of Israel’s war of self-defense in Gaza are not desirable outcomes — and if people still believe in the international order and the illegitimacy of advocating genocide and the destruction of recognized UN member states — then anti-Zionist advocacy of any sort must be socially and politically stigmatized regardless of whether anti-Zionism is considered antisemitic.

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Rise of anti-Semitism echoes older, more dangerous eras

March 18, 2024 | Allon Lee

Everyone agrees that all Australians have a right to freely express their opinions, choose how they spend their money and support causes without having their loyalty questioned… But not if you’re Jewish. If you’re Jewish and support Israel, expect to be smeared as belonging to a vast conspiracy reaching into the deepest recesses of power in Australia and across the world.

Fighters from Hamas' Qassam Brigades (Image: Shutterstock)

This is no time to throw Hamas a lifeline

March 15, 2024 | Colin Rubenstein

Unless Hamas decides to surrender, which seems unlikely, it’s hard to see how the war can end without defeating those remaining battalions; killing, capturing or forcing into exile the organisation’s top leadership

Pro-Palestinian rally in Melbourne, Victoria (Image: Alamy Live News)

Scourge of antisemitism must end

March 6, 2024 | Rabbi Ralph Genende

Many Jews already felt insecure when wearing a kippah or Star of David in public and have avoided doing so. Like so many, I have been befuddled at how anti-Israelism has swiftly segued into anti-Judaism, and the targeting of individual Jews. I feel deep sorrow that Melbourne’s proud Jewish community is being intimidated by mobs, graffiti, and anti-Jewish words.

UNRWA's school for girls in Gaza (Image: Shutterstock)

UNRWA and miseducating Palestinians

March 5, 2024 | Tammy Reznik

Proof that UNRWA employees, including teachers and school staffers, were actively involved in the violent October 7 massacre – yes, some UNRWA teachers were doubling as terrorists – should have triggered moral outrage, yet somehow, the virtue signalers remained quiet.

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Because of October 7, Israel will never be the same again: Joel Burnie on Sky News

March 1, 2024

AIJAC Executive Manager Joel Burnie speaks from Israel to Sky News Australia’s Gabriella Power, 29 February 2024.

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