Of UNRWA and other unremarkable things in the media
February 15, 2024 | Allon Lee
Fewer things are more exasperating than the media ignoring basic facts and context. Scandals plaguing UNRWA, the main agency for Palestinian refugees and their millions of descendants, and Israeli PM Netanyahu’s comments on Palestinian statehood showed this in action.
UNRWA’s role is to perpetuate the war against Israel
February 13, 2024 | Justin Amler
Almost from its inception, UNRWA was hijacked to serve the ongoing battle against Israel’s existence, with a set of refugee conditions and policies that were exclusively and uniquely applicable to Palestinian Arabs.
Greens ceasefire call ignores why Gaza war started: Joel Burnie on Sky News Australia
February 8, 2024
“It troubles our whole Jewish community to have a political party such as the Greens calling for an immediate ceasefire but forgetting why the war actually started…”: AIJAC Executive Manager Joel Burnie speaks to Chris Kenny on Sky News Australia, 7 February 2024.
“The police statement does not make the event that occurred on that evening any better” – Joel Burnie on Sky News
February 5, 2024
AIJAC Executive Manager Joel Burnie discussed the police investigation into the chants at the infamous pro-Palestinian protest at the Sydney Opera House with Kieran Gilbert on Sky News Australia, 2 February 2024.
The double survival gambit behind the brewing Israel-Hamas hostage deal
February 5, 2024 | Ran Porat
Months of painstaking negotiations, mediated by the US, Egypt and Qatar, have led to a new package deal that the two sides are now weighing up.
Israel’s enemies try and fail to help Hamas terrorists
January 30, 2024 | Colin Rubenstein
Although it’s regrettable the ICJ did not throw out the meritless case altogether, it is clear South Africa’s disgraceful attempt to weaponise the Genocide Convention against Israel in support of Hamas failed.
After the atrocities of 7 October and amid the devastation in Gaza, remembering the Holocaust rightly is a moral obligation
January 29, 2024 | Ran Porat
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” These words of the philosopher George Santayana have been on my mind as we approach International Holocaust Remembrance Day this year. But I fear that those who distort the memory of the Shoah in light of the conflict in Gaza may be doing something even worse…
Netanyahu’s critics ignore Israel’s right to security, peace
January 29, 2024 | Colin Rubenstein
Netanyahu’s actual arguments about why Israel needs security control over the West Bank and Gaza make considerable sense. Netanyahu said, “All territory we evacuate, we get terror, terrible terror against us,” citing Gaza, southern Lebanon and parts of the West Bank. Historically, he’s not wrong…
Hamas gladly puts its people in harm’s way
January 24, 2024 | Jamie Hyams
[Hamas] believe[s] that if they can convince Israel’s Jews that they will never be safe in Israel, they will leave. This is why the Hamas October 7 massacres featured such calculated brutality.
Sanctions can no longer be the sole response to Tehran’s blatant provocations
January 21, 2024 | Oved Lobel
It is long past time for Western nations to recognise that appeasement of Iran has failed. The regime is at war with them, whether they wish to be at war with Iran or not. Sanctions cannot be the sole response to decades of terrorism, piracy, hostage-taking, arms proliferation and wars of aggression against the US-led international order.
Israel’s policy in Gaza is the opposite of the “deliberate starvation” lie
January 19, 2024 | Justin Amler
Despite the narrative being spun by many that Israel is preventing aid from entering Gaza, the real truth is the opposite. Israel, rather than targeting civilians, has done everything it can reasonably be expected to, and more, to try to help the Palestinian population while also fighting a deadly war under indescribably difficult conditions
Penny Wong must understand that many Palestinians see all Israelis as ‘settlers’
January 17, 2024 | Ran Porat
Before her visit to Israel this week, Foreign Minister Penny Wong reiterated the government’s view that Israeli “settlements are illegal under international law” … Israel disagrees with this interpretation, arguing the West Bank is “disputed territory” and rejecting their definition as “occupied Palestinian territory”, as Australia’s current government argues.
