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Anti-Zionism
The Last Word: Ideology Above Humanity
What struck me then, and continues to strike me, was their complete lack of concern, sometimes even contempt, for the human beings they claimed to champion and the hatred for the human beings on the other side of the political divide. There was no r...
Published: 27/08/2010 read more
The Costs of Demonising Israel
Today's Update focuses on the movement to demonise and boycott Israel, and its malevolent effects. It comes in the wake of a new must-see short video on the "Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions" movement against Israel, which reveals that this movemen...
Published: 06/08/2010 read more
Israeli videocams show the naked truth of what happened
There are lessons to learn from the flotilla incident beyond the geopolitical fallout and legality of blockades. This incident vividly demonstrates the next step in 21st century warfare....
Author: Daniel Meyerowitz-Katz Published: 07/06/2010 read more
Violent stunts prolong Gaza's suffering
A blockade [of Gaza] to prevent the re-arming of an enemy is an absolutely legitimate and recognized method of armed conflict - and Israel has provided all the required notifications to comply with international law....
Author: Colin Rubenstein Published: 04/06/2010 read more
The Gaza Flotilla Aftermath
With the intensive coverage in the media this Update will not attempt to re-hash the known facts of the Israeli raid on Monday on a flotilla trying to break the blockade of Gaza. Instead the focus will be on the aftermath and the potential fallout....
Author: AIJAC staff Published: 02/06/2010 read more
Essay: Minority Report
The debate revolved around a single question: Was the world's most respected human rights group being fair to Israel? Bob Bernstein wasn't the only person at Human Rights Watch who thought the answer was no....
Author: External author Published: 31/05/2010 read more
The Last Word: Boycotts and Bigots
Just two weeks after telling the Jerusalem Post that "dialogue is essential", Costello aligned himself with the negative and destructive forces that strengthen extremism and undermine efforts at dialogue and outreach....
Author: Jeremy Jones Published: 31/05/2010 read more
The Last Word: Peer Pressure
The Australian think-alikes distributed curricula vitae of their spokespersons, looking suspiciously like job applications, with anti-Israel disinformation, while urging Australians to exploit the Open as an opportunity to join the defamation of all...
Author: Jeremy Jones Published: 25/01/2010 read more
The Last Word: Transparency
Jim Saleam has become one of the best known faces of the generally faceless far right fringe, who appears oblivious to his lack of accord with the basic decency of the population to which he offers himself as a leader....
Author: Jeremy Jones Published: 24/11/2009 read more
The Last Word: "As A Jew..."
If the self-described top-selling author was not born to Jewish parents, I doubt there would be any ambiguity in labelling his rantings as antisemitic. Instead he is one of a collection of characters who preface statements with "as a Jew", as if tha...
Author: Jeremy Jones Published: 27/10/2009 read more
The Last Word: Contempt for Truth
Unlike the other individuals who have been ordered by Australian courts to cease harassment, insult and vilification, Fredrick Toben seemed determined to bring punishment upon himself by flaunting the very gentle "penalty" of being directed to obey ...
Author: Jeremy Jones Published: 31/08/2009 read more
The Last Word: Racism and the UN
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and many others in the Iranian Islamist regime, are true believers. The hatred, the distortions of history, the religiously-sourced arrogance he spouted in Geneva was not a cynical political ploy as much as an expression of firm...
Author: Jeremy Jones Published: 28/04/2009 read more
AIJAC welcomes principled Australian decision to not attend Durban Review Conference
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) has welcomed the Australian Government decision on Sunday that Australian delegates will not attend the UN Durban Review Conference in Geneva this week....
Author: Colin Rubenstein Published: 20/04/2009 read more
Worst Encounter
The Radio National program "Encounter" dedicated its March 22 episode to Jews critical of Israel, scouring Australia and the globe for six of the most extreme....
Author: Jamie Hyams Published: 03/04/2009 read more
Time for Australia to withdraw from the Durban II process
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council today called for the Australian government to withdraw from the process leading to the UN's scheduled "Durban Review Conference". The conference, known as "Durban II", is intended to be a follow up to th...
Author: Colin Rubenstein Published: 02/03/2009 read more
Obama's Durban decision
This Update features two pieces discussing the decision of the Obama Administration in the US to send representatives to planning sessions of the controversial Durban II "anti-racism" conference....
Author: AIJAC staff Published: 20/02/2009 read more
Balance academic freedom with rights of students
The majority report's politicised approach to the inquiry is disappointing as there are legitimate and serious issues regarding bias and intimidation at Australian universities that concern students, and should concern legislators of all political s...
Author: Colin Rubenstein Published: 22/12/2008 read more
Editorial: Failing the Grade
The Majority report's politicised approach to the inquiry was very disappointing, as there are legitimate and serious issues regarding bias and intimidation at Australian universities that concern students, and should concern legislators of all poli...
Author: Colin Rubenstein Published: 18/12/2008 read more
UN-healthy Fixations
Continuing its yearly tradition, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) debated and voted on a cavalcade of recycled anti-Israel resolutions during its November sessions. This annual rehashing of the same anti-Israel ritual presents an opportuni...
Author: Adam Frey Published: 18/12/2008 read more
Durban Renewal
The United Nations' Review Conference for the 2001 "World Conference Against Racism" is shaping up to be as unworthy of its name as was its predecessor. The 2001 conference (Durban I) was hosted by South Africa in Durban and its legacy as a hate fes...
Author: Allon Lee Published: 24/11/2008 read more
Creativity and realism required for success in Middle East talks
YESTERDAY in Washington, President Barack Obama formally launched the resumption of direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians after a 19-month hiatus. International expectations for the talks are low because there appear to be a number of fac...
03/09/2010 read more
Hamas, Israeli Security and Peacemaking
Following the Israeli-Palestinian Summit in Washington yesterday (in which the details of discussions were kept discreet), this Update features some comments on Hamas' role as a potential spoiler in the wake of the Hamas terror attack Tuesday, which...
03/09/2010 read more
Today's Israeli-Palestinian Summit in Washington
As readers are doubtless aware, Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu is meeting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas today in Washington in a summit designed to formally re-launch direct Israeli Palestinian peace talks. This Update offers backgrou...
02/09/2010 read more
Editorial: In the Balance
The next prime minister of Australia should be whoever can more convincingly promise a stable coalition able to undertake the responsibilities of government more effectively. Overseas and Australian state government experience demonstrates that s...
27/08/2010 read more
Scribblings: The BBC Pre-empts Flotilla Inquiries
Israelis have been much focused in recent weeks on the testimony of various top officials to the Turkel inquiry - looking into the flotilla clash off Gaza on May 31 that left nine Turkish activists dead. On top of this, the Israeli government has ma...
27/08/2010 read more
AIR New Zealand: A Tzur Thing
When Israel reopened an embassy in Wellington in April this year, it seemed obvious that the new Ambassador, Shemi Tzur, and his staff had a big job in front of them. Almost a decade without on-the-ground representation, as well as some years of tro...
27/08/2010 read more
Fall of the Teflon Terrorist?
On Aug. 9, 2010, members of Indonesia's elite counter-terrorist police force arrested the militant cleric Abu Bakar Bashir as part of their ongoing investigations into a terrorist training camp discovered in February 2010 in Aceh, plots to kill Pres...
27/08/2010 read more
Israel's Endangered Deterrence
There are few journalists specialising in strategic and security affairs more experienced than Ron Ben Yishai. After fighting as a paratrooper in the Six Day War, Ben Yishai turned to journalism full time. Since then he has covered, from the battlef...
27/08/2010 read more
Hamas' Gaza Killing Spree
News stories about bodies found at sea are occasionally published by Gaza newspapers. The number of such bodies isn't huge, yet not all those drowning victims chose to go swimming voluntarily. The Gazans who found their death at sea include mid-leve...
27/08/2010 read more
The State of the Iranian Revolution
Since coming to power in 1979, the Islamic Revolution in Iran has had two main aims. First, it wished to remain in power and if this was the aim of the Islamic Revolution, 31 years later, it has been successful. But revolutions don't come about simp...
27/08/2010 read more
Essay: Decade of Disappointment
It's been a decade since Israeli and Palestinian leaders met as peacemakers only to part at loggerheads. Now, with most of the Camp David summit's protagonists long gone from the scene, that ill-fated conclave's military, diplomatic and political re...
27/08/2010 read more
The Last Word: Ideology Above Humanity
What struck me then, and continues to strike me, was their complete lack of concern, sometimes even contempt, for the human beings they claimed to champion and the hatred for the human beings on the other side of the political divide. There was no r...
27/08/2010 read more