Iran’s patronage of Hamas, Hezbollah threatens global stability
August 13, 2024 | Ahron Shapiro
The common denominator between Israel’s July 31 targeted killing of Hezbollah chief of staff Fuad Shukr and presumed assassination of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh in Teheran, and the devastating killing of 12 Druze children on the Golan Heights four days earlier by a Hezbollah missile, is Iran
Ismail Haniyeh assassination: Where to next for the Middle East?
August 6, 2024 | Ran Porat
A cluster of assassinations, or targeted killings, initiated by Israel in recent weeks directed at key members of the pro-Iranian network of terror proxies in the Middle East, is expected to soon lead to further escalation in the ongoing regional war raging there since 7 October.
“Pro-Palestinian protests” are actually the opposite
July 31, 2024 | Justin Amler
The uncomfortable truth about the demonstrators is that many have been indoctrinated into a cult of extremism.
The UN continues to fail the world
July 31, 2024 | Justin Amler
To this day, the UN still cannot bring itself to condemn Hamas or its terror attacks that caused the biggest loss of Jewish life in a single day since the Holocaust.
Why ultra-Orthodox opposition to serving in the Israeli army is the most significant threat to Netanyahu’s government
July 30, 2024 | Ran Porat
The current war in Gaza – as well as the heightened tensions with Hezbollah in recent days – have made clear an urgent need to increase the size of the Israeli army. But the crisis surrounding the army service exemption for ultra-Orthodox youth is more than a political, economic or even moral issue.
Australian multiculturalism was never a licence for ‘anything goes’
July 26, 2024 | Colin Rubenstein
Australia relies on a non-negotiable commitment to certain shared values, including parliamentary democracy and the rule of law; freedom of speech and religion; and the equality of the sexes.
A university is for a multiplicity of ideas
July 18, 2024 | Rabbi Ralph Genende
Our universities have created a culture of grievance, resentment and rage which is fertile ground for the kind of vituperative antisemitism we are witnessing.
Israel’s hardest war is fighting the lies waged against it
July 17, 2024 | Justin Amler
It’s a truly dystopian alternate reality when a country under existential threat from a brutal terrorist death cult rescues innocent hostages from its clutches and the world’s reaction is criticism and lamentation.
Why appeasing Iran will lead to broader Mid-East war
July 10, 2024 | Colin Rubenstein
Israelis cannot risk returning to their homes and fields with Hezbollah on the border surveilling their every move, looking to harass constantly, while planning its own October 7-style invasion.
Another plank of the extreme anti-Israel narrative collapses
July 2, 2024 | Oved Lobel
Multiple independent analyses of the Hamas-run Ministry of Health (MoH) casualty data have long since demonstrated that the casualty numbers contained statistical anomalies indicating they were clearly heavily manipulated if not outright fabricated.
‘Devil’s bargain’: Sydney University is tolerating hate speech by caving in to its tent camp extremists
June 30, 2024 | Greg Rose
The actions of the Vice-Chancellor Mark Scott, whose complete capitulation to SUMSA has been a disgrace, must urgently be reviewed by the university senate. The University of Sydney’s endorsement of the political demands put forward by this activist group is simply a devil’s bargain with radicalised extremists.
Faith: Shavuot
June 11, 2024 | Rabbi Ralph Genende
We are currently in the season of love on the Jewish calendar. These are the days between the festival of the Exodus from ancient Egypt (Passover) and the giving of the Ten Commandments and Torah, the sacred code, covenant and constitution of the Jewish people at Mount Sinai some seven weeks later: the festival of Shavuot, aka Pentecost.
