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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Food, lies and videotapes
June 26, 2025 | Justin Amler
While the world is focused right now on Iran, it’s important to remember the war in Gaza continues. On Sunday, Israeli security forces recovered the bodies of three more hostages…
Questions over the legitimacy of the US-Israeli attack on Iran fail to grasp the threat — and the opportunity
June 24, 2025 | Ran Porat
There was also substantial evidence supporting the imminence of an Iranian threat. Recently released intelligence suggested that Tehran was accelerating its weaponisation of highly enriched uranium and restocking thousands of new ballistic missiles.
A critical first step to stability
June 23, 2025 | Colin Rubenstein
The US intervention provides much greater confidence that Iran, a regime committed to dominating and destabilising its neighbours, international terrorism, and destroying Israel – and that was illegally trying to build nuclear weapons to facilitate all three objectives – is about to be thoroughly defanged.
