Sydney, 2025 (Image: X)

Call out the causes of antisemitism

February 20, 2025 | Bren Carlill

We moved pretty quickly from graffiti, to arson, to a caravan filled with explosives, to nurses threatening to kill Israelis. Antisemitism has exploded in Australia, but many outside the Jewish community remain confused as to why. 

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Trumpquake: The international community’s weak response to Gaza

February 19, 2025 | Justin Amler

Whether his proposals for relocating Palestinians and turning Gaza into a “Riviera” of the Middle East are realistic is almost beside the point. His statements have once again highlighted the hypocrisy and triple standards applied to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Palestinian men rest in Israel's Barzilai Hospital (Image: Shutterstock)

Keep conflict out of hospital wards

February 18, 2025 | Ahron Shapiro

The murderous hatred expressed in the video towards Israelis stands in stark contrast to the situation inside Israel itself, where hospitals remain unsinkable islands of coexistence even amid the roughest seas of political tension.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi meeting President Donald Trump in May 2017 (image: Flickr)

Time for Egypt to be held to account

February 13, 2025 | Oved Lobel

US President Donald Trump seems to think Egypt can play a role in housing Palestinians while Gaza is rebuilt, or that it could otherwise contribute to Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts. He needs to think again; that is, unless Egypt’s past impunity is ended.

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Hate in Hospitals a sign of a greater sickness

February 13, 2025 | Joel Burnie

It is important that these culprits are prosecuted to the full extent possible, not just because they deserve punishment, but because a strong signal needs to be sent that this conduct is totally unacceptable. This signal was lacking in late 2023 when demonstrators chanted openly threatening slogans against Jews, some imams gave openly antisemitic sermons

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There is method to Trump’s Gaza takeover madness

February 7, 2025 | Bren Carlill

Trump’s ‘Gaza plan’ – which took Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu by surprise as well – is almost certainly designed to scare Palestinians and third parties into being less maximalist in their demands, and to start coming to the table with creative solutions.

Israeli PM Netanyahu and President Trump in their White House press conference (Screenshot)

Some merit, but many obstacles in Donald Trump’s Gaza plan

February 6, 2025 | Colin Rubenstein

Controversy was assured from the start when US President Donald Trump announced his unconventional plans for the future of Gaza in various press conferences with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday.

UNRWA is portrayed as the “backbone” of Gaza aid efforts, but actually supplied only 13% of aid there over recent months (Image: Anas Mohammed/ Shutterstock)

UNRWA must lose funding before any peace can be found in Gaza

February 6, 2025 | Jamie Hyams

According to Israeli intelligence, 1,200 UNRWA employees in Gaza – 10% of its workforce – are Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) operatives, including school principals.

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Ceasefire needed on Australian streets

February 5, 2025 | Rabbi Ralph Genende

As the news broke of a massive terror attack threat on the Sydney Jewish community, with a synagogue the likely target, I began to feel real fear in a way I have never felt before.

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Gaza will need real aid, not Hamas in disguise

February 5, 2025 | Tzvi Fleischer

A key issue is that UNRWA does not consider either Hamas or PIJ to be terrorist organisations, as they’re not on the UN’s terrorism list. It thus refuses to vet its staff for terrorist links, and sees no problem in openly cooperating with Hamas.

Agam Berger paraded by Hamas prior to her release (Image: X)

Monsters and Heroes: An Australian perspective

February 4, 2025 | Justin Amler

It’s impossible not to be moved by a myriad of emotions as we watched young women and an old man go from the dark abyss of evil, hatred and despair into the euphoria of lightness, good and the loving embrace of their family and friends.

An Israeli helicopter bearing released hostages prepares to land (Image: X)

To succeed, the Gaza ceasefire must lead to hope and stability

January 31, 2025 | Ran Porat

The text of the ceasefire agreement is a masterclass of internal contradictions, vagueness, and word choices that enable both sides to claim they did not compromise on their key demands

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