Majdal Shams, where a Hezbollah rocket killed 12 children on a soccer pitch (Image: Shutterstock)

Behind the News – August 2024

August 14, 2024 | AIJAC staff

Ismail Haniyeh, killed in Teheran on July 31 (Image: Shutterstock)

Who was Ismail Haniyeh?

August 14, 2024 | Ksenia Svetlova

Footage from October 7 shows identifiable UNRWA employees putting the bodies of murdered Israelis in UN-owned white vans (Screenshot)

Scribblings: UNRWA’s October 7 participants

August 14, 2024 | Tzvi Fleischer

Ismail Haniyeh, killed in Teheran on July 31; Fuad Shukr, killed in Beirut on July 30 (Image: X/ Twitter)

Waiting for war?

August 14, 2024 | Jonathan Spyer

Israeli civilians rushing into public shelters as the sirens go off during the ongoing Hamas-Israel war (Image: Shutterstock)

Editorial: “Escalation” and double standards

August 14, 2024 | Colin Rubenstein

(Image: X/Twitter)

Essay: The Placard Strategy

July 4, 2024 | Einat Wilf

A far-right graphic makes caricatured Jews responsible for everything the far-right hates

Deconstruction Zone: The conspiracy trap

July 4, 2024 | Dave Rich

The “encampment” at the University of Sydney (Image: X/Twitter)

The Last Word: What is a university?

July 4, 2024 | Rabbi Ralph Genende

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah: Threatening not only Cyprus but all maritime activity in the Eastern Mediterranean (Image: X/Twitter)

Cyprus and the Hezbollah maritime threat

July 4, 2024 | David Schenker, Farzin Nadimi, Hanin Ghaddar

IDF Lt. Col. Dotan Razili, a home front brigade commander, guarding the evacuated northern community of Kibbutz Eilon (Image: Charlotte Lawson)

On the frontlines in Israel’s north

July 4, 2024 | Charlotte Lawson

New York Times columnist Bret Stephens speaking to AIJAC in Melbourne: “There will never be any long-term peace in the region as long as the Islamic Republic rules Persia”

Bret Stephens on Israel’s War for Survival

July 4, 2024 | Oved Lobel

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken with Israeli PM Netanyahu: US-Israel agreement on the essential parameters for post-war Gaza remains indispensible (Image: GPO/Flickr)

How to End the War in Gaza

July 3, 2024 | David Makovsky, Dennis Ross