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International Jewry
The Conversion Factor
Current Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and, indeed, the vast majority of Israelis, agree with Sharon's original view that the partly Jewish immigration of the 1990s, which has since then demonstrated its patriotism, learned Hebrew, and contribute...
Published: 27/07/2010 read more
The Last Word: Time to join the Task Force
After more than a decade of activity, the ITF still generates energy, enthusiasm and creativity. It serves as a facilitator of co-operation and the exchange of ideas designed to bring about "best practise" in combating the malevolent ideas which lay...
Published: 27/07/2010 read more
How to Support - and Improve - Israel
Julie Szego's column entitled "The Need for a Critical Diaspora" (July 2) placed entirely too much uncritical faith in the arguments of American author and journalist Peter Beinart. She fails to take adequate account of the outcome of the intense an...
Published: 22/07/2010 read more
The Last Word: In Your Faith
One of the loudest Muslim commentators, however, used the issue to foster anti-Jewish feeling, with the subtle invocation of the myth of Jewish power....
Author: Jeremy Jones Published: 18/12/2009 read more
A Papal Pilgrim's Progress
Pope Benedict XVI's five-day "pastoral pilgrimage of prayer and unity" for peace and reconciliation in Israel and the Palestinian territories in May passed without serious hitches - though his unusual speech at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial arou...
Author: Yehonathan Tommer Published: 27/05/2009 read more
The Last Word: Papal Footsteps
The Pope's condemnations of antisemitism in general and Holocaust denial in particular were forthright and consistent....
Author: Jeremy Jones Published: 27/05/2009 read more
Pope Benedict in Israel/ Mr. Netanyahu goes to Washington
Pope Benedict XVI is just completing his trip to Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Authority, and the visit has been much more controversial than the previous Papal visit to Israel, by John Paul II, in 2000....
Author: AIJAC staff Published: 13/05/2009 read more
History in the making
We leave the UN precinct satisfied. The conference now seems totally undermined and Ahmadinejad has unwittingly alienated Iran from the rest of the nations. Our protest has worked both in the NGO hall and the plenary....
Author: External author Published: 28/04/2009 read more
Australia to have representative on peak international dialogue group
The International Jewish Committee on Inter-Religious Consultation (IJCIC), a coalition of major international Jewish organisations representing world Jewry to other religions, is to have direct Australian input. "I am pleased to announce the inclus...
Author: Colin Rubenstein Published: 09/02/2009 read more
Rome and Jerusalem
The papacy of Pius XII represented a low point in the history of Catholic-Jewish relations, but several years after it ended, a theological rapprochement between Catholicism and Judaism ensued, eventually producing a political honeymoon between the ...
Author: Amotz Asa-El Published: 03/11/2008 read more
The Last Word: Warm Days in Java
As I accepted my invitation to participate in the 2nd World Peace Forum in Jakarta this June, I had in mind a comment made by a participant in the 2006 World Peace Forum, that the environment had been "hostile to Jews, even antisemitic"....
Author: Jeremy Jones Published: 29/07/2008 read more
The Last Word: Across the Jordan
Our host, Prince al-Hassan bin Talal, joined Prof. Swidler and Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg as discussants on a number of issues, adding experience, gravitas and his unique humour to the event....
Author: Jeremy Jones Published: 24/06/2008 read more
The Last Word: March to the Future
In Poland last month, I was shown a copy of the April 3-9 issue of Tylko Polska, an extreme right-wing tabloid available on Warsaw newsstands. There, on page 17, I saw a piece in which I featured by name as an enemy of Holocaust deniers....
Author: Jeremy Jones Published: 27/05/2008 read more
Alexander Downer speech to American Jewish Committee upon receiving the Ramer Award for Excellence in Diplomacy, Washington D.C.
The Australian and American Jewish communities have a lot in common. In both cases Jews have found in our countries the peace and tolerance which was denied them over the centuries in Europe and the Middle East: but they have not only found freedom ...
Author: External author Published: 09/05/2008 read more
AIJAC welcomes Interpol vote to issue arrest warrants for Iranians suspected in 1994 AMIA bombing
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) has welcomed Australia's vote [with Opposition backing] to uphold Interpol's previous decision to issue arrest warrants for five Iranians and a Hezbollah operative....
Author: AIJAC staff Published: 08/11/2007 read more
The Road to Annapolis/ Walt-Mearsheimer Again
The venue has been announced for the proposed Middle East meeting in November (probably around the 26th) - it is to occur in Annapolis, Maryland. This Update features pieces on the diplomatic challenges and problems in the lead-up to the meeting....
Author: AIJAC staff Published: 10/10/2007 read more
Looking through Rosen-Coloured Glasses
"If you keep religion out of it, extremists will take over, was the message from Rabbi David Rosen, International President of the World Conference for Religions and Peace....
Author: Aviva Bard Published: 01/10/2007 read more
Hate's Revival
The statistics are damning. Antisemitic incidents are up nearly 50% in one year. They have increased seven-fold since 1989. Moreover, racist assaults on Jewish individuals nearly doubled globally in a single year....
Author: Tzvi Fleischer Published: 01/05/2007 read more
Biblio File: A Tough Crowd
Could Arab attitudes to the Holocaust be changing? "Not so fast," says Robert Satloff ... author of Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands (Public Affairs, 2006). But he says there are positive signs....
Author: AIJAC External authors Published: 01/05/2007 read more
Australian Jewry's Israel question
THE publicity surrounding the issuing of the "Independent Australian Jewish Voices" statement appears out of all proportion to the petition's significance....
Author: Colin Rubenstein Published: 09/03/2007 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