What did Netanyahu really say about a Palestinian state?
March 18, 2015 | Ahron Shapiro
It has been widely reported in Australia and elsewhere that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu “ruled out” a Palestinian state in an interview with the Israeli website NRG on Monday. However, most reports have left out a crucial portion from the translation from the original Hebrew of Netanyahu’s remarks which would better explain his true position.
Miriam Margolyes and Antisemitism
March 18, 2015 | Glen Falkenstein
“It’s becoming a growing concern: who would ride with us, the Australian Jews? The answers I received that night were vague and left me wanting more.”
On Q&A on 2nd March, Journalism student Erin Gordon asked the panel “Who would ride with us, the Australian Jews,” pointing to a rise in antisemitic attacks and questioning why there had not been wider support to combat such hatred.
Israeli election results appear to be surprisingly strong win to Netanyahu’s Likud
March 18, 2015
With more than 99% of the vote now counted, the Israeli election, which occurred yesterday Israel time (meaning overnight Australia time) has led to a resounding victory for incumbent Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his Likud party. This is a surprise – contrasting not only with the polls of recent weeks, which suggested the opposition Zionist Camp party was somewhat ahead, but even the exit polls from yesterday, which showed the two largest parties virtually neck and neck.
Antisemitism on Campus: Has Sydney University’s Jake Lynch Finally Gone Too Far?
March 17, 2015 | Glen Falkenstein
Suppose a person jumps up in a lecture theatre, stands on his chair, waves money at an old Jewish woman and yells in the faces of students – would such a person be permitted to remain in the room? Now imagine it was a professor that did these things – should such a person be allowed to remain at the University?
Should the ABC have given advocacy journalist Sophie McNeill the keys to its Jerusalem bureau?
March 13, 2015 | Ahron Shapiro
There are serious questions that must be raised about whether Sophie McNeill, who has recently been appointed the ABC’s exclusive Jerusalem-based Middle East correspondent, can comply with the obligations contained in ABC’s Code of Practice.
Israel Election Update
March 13, 2015
Today’s Update focuses on some new analysis of the state of the Israeli election campaign, now in its final week. The polls have been very varied (an excellent compilation of all significant election polls comes from “Jeremy’s Knesset Insider” website) and show that the competition between the two main parties remains close – though it is worth noting that the larger balance of forces between the various parties in the centre right-religious and centre left-Arab blocs is at least as important as the specific votes for the main Likud and Zionist Camp parties.
Bailed Al Jazeera journalist reveals the truth about the network’s agenda and role in his fate
March 12, 2015 | Allon Lee
Mohammed Fahmy is an Al Jazeera journalist currently on bail awaiting retrial in Cairo on ludicrous terrorism related charges, and a close colleague of Australian Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste, who was released after imprisonment on the same trumped-up charges in late January. Fahmy, an Egyptian-born Canadian, has just joined the chorus of Al Jazeera employees revealing that the Qatari royal family, which owns and runs the news organisation, sets and interferes with the organisation’s editorial line, and says that this interference has damaged his ability to defend himself from the Egyptian charges.
This is, of course, hardly news to AIJAC readers and is merely further confirmation from an insider that Al Jazeera is nothing like an independent news service.
Video: Melanie Phillips on the threat of radical Islam
March 12, 2015
British author and columnist Melanie Phillips addresses the threat posed to Western Civilisation by Radical Islam, at an event co-sponsored by the United Israel Appeal and Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council in Melbourne…
Anti-Israel agitators disrupt expert presentation
March 11, 2015 | Glen Falkenstein
Protesters have disrupted a lecture, fighting with security guards, at the University of Sydney. The lecture was being given by retired British military officer Colonel Richard Kemp, a world-renowned expert on armed conflict, the Middle East and a prolific media commentator.
The ABC’s anti-Netanyahu script on Iran speech
March 6, 2015 | Allon Lee
The ABC used to promote itself with the tagline “it’s your ABC”.
But as an ABC consumer who wanted to know exactly what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial address to the US Congress contained and to hear analysis from experts who weren’t automatically going to rubbish the speech, it isn’t my ABC.
