History’s lessons vital to counter extremism
January 18, 2021 | Sharyn Mittelman
THE recent shocking events at the US Capitol have underlined how extremists around the world are promoting racist conspiracy theories, recruiting online and trying to provoke “race wars” — and helped cause the violence we saw in Washington. Meanwhile, Australian security agencies continue to warn about the growth of far-right extremism here.
Beware Turkey’s normalisation noise
January 7, 2021 | Oved Lobel
Absent concrete Turkish concessions or a substantial change in the regional situation, no Israeli interests can be served by humouring Erdogan’s outreach or indulging Turkey’s progressively more appalling demands and activities.
We are at a pivotal moment for addressing the Iranian nuclear threat
December 15, 2020 | Ahron Shapiro
Taken on face value, the November 27 assassination of top Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, like the targeted killing of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Qassem Soleimani last January, would appear to be aimed at breaking the momentum of Iranian aggression in the region…
How Biden (and Australia) should pressure Iran
December 3, 2020 | Jamie Hyams
The freeing of Kylie Moore-Gilbert, the Australian academic imprisoned in Iran on trumped-up espionage charges, and the killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the head of Iran’s nuclear program, have seen Iran highlighted in our news recently. They have also demonstrated yet again the true nature of Iran’s Islamist regime.
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.
