Tehran’s Russian Connection

December 3, 2021 | Oved Lobel

Often dubbed the “resistance axis,” the IRGC is no ordinary national army but the vanguard of a multinational Islamic revolution—a supranational monolith whose nerve center is located in Iran… Occasional pragmatic feats notwithstanding, the Islamic Republic has never moderated its long-term ambition to substitute a broad theocracy for the existing regional (indeed global) political order.

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A matter of patience: Tehran’s nuclear timeline versus Washington’s

November 23, 2021 | Ran Porat

The regime has been trying to break the economic siege by aligning itself with China and Russia and by illegally exporting oil to China and Venezuela. At the same time, it markets the ‘resistance economy’ as the rationale for the prolonged suffering of the Iranian people (though most Iranians see through this lie).

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Why we must call out Holocaust distortion

November 22, 2021 | Naomi Levin

There is a name for the comparisons used by anti-lockdown protesters to Holocaust tropes –  Holocaust distortion – and there is a case to be made for governments of all levels to do more to stamp it out.

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Six Palestinian NGOs are supporting terrorist group PFLP – Ran Porat on J-AIR

November 4, 2021 | AIJAC staff

AIJAC’s Ran Porat discussed Israel’s decision to ban six Palestinian NGOs who are linked to and supporting terrorist group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine on J-Air, November 3 2021.

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Australia embracing the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s Working Definition of Anti-Semitism

November 2, 2021 | Jeremy Jones

Now that the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Anti-Semitism has been “embraced”, the challenge will be to ensure it is applied in ways which will ensure robust and informed debate on public policy matters, while providing recourse for victims of anti-Semitism.

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Lyons’ claims laughable if not so insidious

October 14, 2021 | Allon Lee, Tzvi Fleischer

Lyons absurdly paints AIJAC as having “unadulterated power” – more power than former prime ministers or any other Australian lobby group. Apparently, we outgun the ACTU, the Business Council of Australia, GetUp, and the National Farmers’ Federation. He is so eager to denounce AIJAC, he violates journalism’s basic principles.

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What Everyone Thinks They Know About the Yemen War is Wrong

October 11, 2021 | Oved Lobel

Whatever the complexities of the conflict, the primary culprit in the suffering of Yemenis and the continuation of the war is the fanatic, revolutionary brutality of Ansar Allah and its Iranian backers, not Saudi Arabia.

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Why Australia should adopt and apply the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism

October 8, 2021 | Jeremy Jones

The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, the Zionist Federation of Australia and other mainstream Jewish organisations in Australia have affirmed that the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism would greatly assist in identifying, understanding and responding appropriately to manifestations of antisemitism.

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Hamas must be proscribed in its entirety

October 7, 2021 | Naomi Levin

Hamas is the terrorist group that fired 4000+ rockets toward Israel in May, killing 12 civilians there. Hamas is the terrorist group whose leaders take to TV to encourage supporters to buy a knife and cut off Jews’ heads… But Australia does not recognise Hamas as a terrorist group.

Then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, UAE Foreign Affairs Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan and Bahrain Foreign Affairs Minister Sheikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa at the Abraham Accords signing ceremony in Washington DC, 15 September 2020.  (Credit: EPA/JIM LO SCALZO)

A year into the Abraham Accords shines a light into future

September 20, 2021 | Colin Rubenstein

The Middle East, so often in the news for its problems, has, during the past year, pioneered a major historic breakthrough likely to have enduring effects, in the form of the Abraham Accords.

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