Fast Facts: Latest major outbreak of violence between Israel and Gaza
November 13, 2018 | AIJAC staff
Up to 400 rockets and mortars have been fired by Hamas and other terrorist groups into Israel over the past 24 hours. About 60 were intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome defence syste.
Australia and UNRWA
September 27, 2018 | Naomi Levin
Australia is a major supporter of UNRWA, and governments of both persuasions have renewed Australia’s financial commitment to the agency on a number of occasions since 2000.
Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security on its review of the re-listing of Hamas’ Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades (Hamas Brigades) as a terrorist organisation under the Criminal Code
September 5, 2018
AIJAC made a submission to the Parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence and Security into the relisting of the Hamas’ Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades (Hamas Brigades) as a terrorist organisation by the Australian Government.
A claim that 15 people were killed as a result of a strike at the UNRWA school in Beit Hanoun
August 15, 2018 | IDF Spokesperson
Original Hebrew source: JAG decisions regarding exceptional events that occurred during Operation Tzuk Eitan system – Update No. 6 As reported…
AIJAC’s submission to the Federal Parliamentary Inquiry into Freedom of Speech and article 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
January 20, 2017
AIJAC’s submission to the Australian Federal Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights Inquiry into Freedom of Speech in Australia – including into the operation of Part IIA of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth) (RDA) (including ss. 18C and 18D) and the complaints-handling procedures of the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) – has now been published by the Parliamentary Committee
New report on the Australia-Israel relationship
November 3, 2016
A new report published by the Australian Strategic Policy Insitute (ASPI) in conjunction with the Begin-Sadat Centre for Strategic Studies (BESA) in Israel looks at the Australia-Israel relationship.
This post presents the Executive Summary.
The full report (in PDF) can be accessed here.
Israel and its conflicts with the Arab world: A Brief Guide for the Perplexed
March 2, 2016 | AIJAC
Events in the Middle East continue to fill the front pages of newspapers and arouse heated debate around the world. Of all topics keeping the Middle East in the news, however, no sub-issue generates as much emotion, debate, and ire as the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
AIJAC’s “Brief Guide for the Perplexed” offers a digestible guide to key events that have shaped the conflict and the complex situation that exists today.
Video: Dr. Jonathan Spyer on The States of Flux in the Middle East
September 4, 2015
Dr. Jonathan Spyer, Director of the Rubin Centre in Israel, spoke at an AIJAC function in Melbourne on the continuing instability in the Middle East.
This post also contains links to Dr. Spyer’s other recent media appearances in Australia.
