The theft of aid has gravely affected humanitarian efforts (Image: X)

Prolonging Gaza’s suffering, one ill-advised statement at a time

July 24, 2025 | Colin Rubenstein

This week’s statement called for an “immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire” and a return to the old UN-dominated aid system for Gaza, which Hamas exploited routinely in order to maintain itself in power and keep the war going. Both can only benefit Hamas – not the longer-term interests of Gaza’s civilians.

Hamas fighters in Gaza (Image: Anas Mohammed/ Shutterstock)

Call for ceasefire wilfully ignores realities of Gaza conflict

July 23, 2025 | Justin Amler

The statement was not only highly critical of Israel but bereft of any value in solving the ongoing Gaza war, or ending the suffering that results from it. It demonstrated once again the profound lack of understanding of the Middle East or the Hamas-Israel conflict that has become all too common in this country.

Fragment of the Arch of Titus in Rome, commemorating the Destruction (Image: Shutterstock)

The arithmetic of hope and despair 

July 17, 2025 | Rabbi Ralph Genende

The three weeks of constriction, the nine days of devastation, the seven weeks of numeration and the seven weeks of consolation; the Six-Day War, the Twelve-Day War. Numbers define Jewish identity from the past to the present.

Anti-Israel protest in Melbourne in October 2024 (Image: Diana Zavaleta/ Shutterstock)

Melbourne’s night of shame

July 10, 2025 | Justin Amler

We need them to understand that when rampant demonstrators attack our institutions and our community with word and deed, chanting “all Zionists are terrorists,” we take it very personally because they are not calling for dialogue – they are calling for death.

Damage to the door of the East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation (image: X/@w3bsag3)

Politicians’ reactions ring hollow in echo chambers of outrage

July 8, 2025 | Bren Carlill

“Zionists” are the targets, but it just so happens that most Zionists out there are Jews, and almost all Jews are Zionists. And, certainly, the protesters don’t usually bother to discriminate. Which is why synagogues are burnt. Which is why Jewish schools are graffitied and students are taunted. Which is why Jewish artists are de-platformed.

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Anti-Semitism: Very fabric of our society is in deep, dark danger

July 7, 2025 | Mark Leibler

Those who took to the streets of Melbourne are fundamentally driven by a ­hatred of Jews. Such people have always been here, but the murders, rapes and abductions that took place on ­ October 7, 2023, emboldened them. And as long as protests accompanied by chants of “Zionists are terrorists”, “death to the IDF”, “globalise the intifada” and “from the river to the sea” continue, violence directed at the Jewish community and its institutions will follow.

East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation (image: Flickr/Rexness)

Tragic shift on antisemitism should terrify us all

July 7, 2025 | Paul Rubenstein

This kind of hatred never stays contained. The history is clear: every society that has allowed itself to follow this path has ended up ashamed of where it arrived and inevitably in abject failure. So we must ask, urgently and clearly: is this really the road we want Australia to go down?

The East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation (image: Wikimedia Commons/Spud770)

Australia’s Antisemitism problem is no longer shocking — it’s normalised

July 7, 2025 | Joel Burnie

Are Russian Orthodox  churches in Australia being attacked over the Ukraine war? Are Chinese Australians persecuted over the Chinese communist government’s treatment of the Uyghurs? Of course not. Individuals are not held responsible for the actions of foreign governments. Except, it seems, when it comes to Jews, who always seem to bear collective responsibility for anything bad happening in the world, including the alleged and often misrepresented actions of the State of Israel.

Israeli Air Force fighter jets en route to hit Iranian targets (screenshot)

Could this be the 1967 moment for the Islamic Revolution?

July 6, 2025 | Oved Lobel

In the end, the battle that many expected to be a bang was in fact a whimper, with the regime completely powerless to defend itself or retaliate in any meaningful fashion.

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After the ceasefire, we should not forget that Iran’s regime is a threat to everyone

July 3, 2025 | Alana Schetzer

For those who have forgotten 2022 or simply believe the Iranian regime is somehow virtuous because they do not like its enemies, it’s important to remember what this regime actually is and what it does. Iran, the region, and the world would be a significantly better, safer places without it.

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A ceasefire – but will the fire actually cease?

June 30, 2025 | Justin Amler

The campaign was undoubtedly an incredible achievement by Israel, which has lived under the nightmarish shadow of a potentially nuclear-armed Iran, dedicated to the Jewish state’s destruction, for decades. But… Iran has already sworn it will resume its illegal nuclear efforts – even as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei surreally insists that Iran won a great victory. 

An American B2 bomber (screenshot)

Sometimes a military solution is necessary

June 26, 2025 | Allon Lee

The Albanese Government’s belated and begrudging support for the US strikes on Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan on Saturday reflected the discomfort of many Western governments at US President Trump’s direct military involvement.

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