An Israeli flag flies in a Jordan Valley Jewish settlement.  CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES

The opportunity of Trump’s “deal of the century”

January 31, 2020 | Colin Rubenstein

While no one expected Trump’s deal would result in an overnight breakthrough, the plan could plant the seeds of hope for a new fruitful dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians for a number of reasons.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during an event with President Donald Trump in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020, to announce the Trump administration's much-anticipated plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

What’s on the table in Donald’s deal?

January 30, 2020 | Allon Lee

US President Donald Trump’s long-awaited “deal of the century” peace plan will not satisfy both sides’ maximalist positions and fudges some of the detail, but does provide some innovative proposals to ensure Israel’s security needs.

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Jeremy Jones interviewed about antisemitism on ABC Radio “PM”

January 15, 2020

AIJAC’s Jeremy Jones was interviewed on ABC radio’s PM program on January 14 on antisemitism

Iranian President Rouhani reviewing centrifuges: Iran is now saying it will cease adhering to any of the JCPOA nuclear deal restrictions on enrichment.

Time to push for new Iran nuclear deal

January 10, 2020 | Ahron Shapiro

An edited version of this article appeared in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald on Jan. 10, 2020. Amidst the…

Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Suleimani  was the key enabler of the Iranian regime’s overarching policy of military aggression and expansionism.

The killing of arch-terrorist Soleimani changes the regional rules of the game

January 10, 2020 | Colin Rubenstein

An edited version of this article appeared in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald on January 10, 2020. The US…

Israeli soldiers man a checkpoint to an Israeli settlement in Hebron in the West Bank. Picture: Getty Images

Calling for a one-state solution in Israel and Palestine is calling for a bloodbath

December 9, 2019 | Allon Lee

Claims that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s recent statement that Israeli settlements are not, per se, inconsistent with international law has killed the two-state solution, as Crispin Hull argued on these pages last month, misrepresent both history and current day realities.

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AIJAC’s Ahron Shapiro talks Israeli elections on ABC radio

November 22, 2019 | AIJAC staff

AIJAC’s Ahron Shapiro discussed the latest twists and turns in Israel’s attempt to form a government. After two elections and…

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Education is at the heart of tackling antisemitism

November 7, 2019 | Sharyn Mittelman

What more can be done to counter antisemitism at schools?  That question reverberated around Australia this past month as many were shocked to hear of appalling antisemitic bullying.  

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Fatah and Hamas are allowed to keep this horror film playing

October 31, 2019 | Allon Lee

The chilling words by veteran Hamas official Fathi Hammad at a rally in Gaza last July urging Palestinians to kill Jews, not Israelis, is easily found on YouTube. I don’t know if these words appear in the Palestinian Film Festival that Greg Barns encouraged readers to attend in his recent piece blaming Israel for poverty in Gaza.

Hebron memorial to Israeli infant Shalhevet Pass (inset), murdered by a Palestinian sniper in 2001.

Truth, Hebron and “Breaking the Silence”

October 16, 2019 | Ahron Shapiro

The left-wing Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence (BtS), the subject of a story by journalist Terry Plane in these pages last month, is by its own admission, a political organisation that seeks to “change” the “policy of government”.

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