War between Armenia and Azerbaijan highlights Turkey–Israel tensions
November 26, 2020 | Oved Lobel
No matter how deeply embedded Israel is in Azerbaijan technologically, militarily and economically, Turkey’s influence there will likely always be greater.
Interview: AIJAC’s Ahron Shapiro with SBS Radio’s Nitza Lowenstein on what a Biden Administration may mean for Israel, Iran and the Peace Process
November 16, 2020 | Ahron Shapiro
Ahron Shapiro: Shalom, I am Ahron Shapiro, a senior policy analyst at the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council. Nitza…
QAnon is more than a conspiracy
October 19, 2020 | Naomi Levin
Daily Telegraph, October 19 2020 This week, in a move described as a “hammer blow” to the QAnon movement…
Israel in the Media: AIJAC’s Tzvi Fleischer speaks to J-AIR radio
October 13, 2020
AIJAC’s Dr. Tzvi Fleischer discusses ‘Israel in the Australian media’ with David Schulberg of the community radio program ‘The Israel Connexion’ on J-AIR radio and www.j-air.com.au. The discussion is based in part on reviewing and updating an article by Dr. Fleischer, titled ‘Israel in the Australian Media’, published in the Jewish Political Studies Review some years ago.
A media relationship that must end
October 8, 2020 | Judy Maynard
It is well past time for the relationships between Australia’s taxpayer-funded state broadcasters and a propaganda outlet for a repressive, pro-Islamist state to fully come to an end.
Indonesia, the Palestinians and the new Middle East
October 5, 2020 | Colin Rubenstein
Indonesia could now take advantage of the OIC’s internal division over normalization with Israel and reassess, like so many others, its own policies on the matter
UAE’s and Bahrain’s normalisation of relations with Israel could be an opportunity for Palestinians
September 30, 2020 | Jamie Hyams
Israel’s normalisation agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, signed on 15 September, signify a potentially tectonic shift in the Middle East and represent perhaps the greatest advance towards peace there in 25 years… Predictably, they have also been condemned by those who measure success in the region not by the welfare of its population, including the Palestinians, but by how bad things are for Israel.
Russia’s quest to make itself indispensable in the Middle East
September 17, 2020 | Oved Lobel
Although it has neither the desire nor the financial or military capacity to actually displace the United States in the Middle East, Russia has become adept at planting itself firmly in the middle of crises and conflicts and establishing itself as an indispensable intermediary at relatively little cost.
Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates fully normalise relations with Israel – ABC Radio interview
September 16, 2020
AIJAC’s Ahron Shapiro discussed the US-brokered diplomatic rapprochement between Israel and the United Arab and Emirates and Bahrain with ABC Newsradio’s Glen Bartholomew.
Bridging the gulf to peace
September 15, 2020 | Sharyn Mittelman
The deals reflect a broader geopolitical realignment taking place – an already existing covert alliance of the US, Israel and Sunni Gulf nations against the threat represented by Iran and its proxies including terror group Hezbollah, due to Iran’s nuclear program and its destabilising activities across the region.
Deals between Israel, UAE and Bahrain shatter old barriers
September 15, 2020 | Colin Rubenstein
These historic deals, unlike those before them, have not grown out of the cold, transactional “land for peace” framework that followed the 1967 Six-Day War, but a new model of “peace for peace” and shared mutual interests. They are the organic product of both economic opportunity and common security concerns, particularly regarding the threat to all three countries from Iran – through conventional warfare, proxy militias and terror groups, and nuclear weapon ambitions.
Australia must do more to get Melbourne academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert out of Iranian prison
August 25, 2020 | Naomi Levin
The University of Melbourne Middle East expert has become another pawn in the Iranian game of taking foreign hostages under the guise of imprisoning “spies”. But should the Australian government be doing more, or doing things differently, to secure Moore-Gilbert’s release?
