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Glen Eira adopts Victoria’s first dedicated local-government antisemitism strategy
6+ day, 6+ hour ago (581+ words) Glen Eira City Council has become the first local government in Victoria to adopt a dedicated Antisemitism Strategy and Action Plan, covering 2026 to 2028. The two-year plan was developed in response to data showing that Glen Eira accounted for 43 per cent…...
AIJAC accuses ABC guidance of embedding anti-Israel bias
1+ week, 3+ day ago (761+ words) The ABC’s internal framework for reporting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could lead to systematically one-sided coverage even when journalists follow it faithfully, according to a new report from the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC). The AIJAC report argues that the…...
Stephen Lawrence’s double standard on Israel—and the Royal Commission
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1011+ words) Stephen Lawrence’s Deepcut News article “Labor politician calls out Royal Commission’s ‘profound ignorance’ on Israel” is framed as a rebuke to the Royal Commission for its supposed “profound ignorance” of Israel. In reality, it demonstrates something quite different: an unwillingness…...
The antizionist hate-laundering service
1+ week, 5+ day ago (910+ words) The first casualty in war is not truth; it is the stuff truth is made of: language. Writing in The Australian on Saturday, Stephen Rice observed that the Royal Commission’s Justice Virginia Bell will “have done well to navigate the…...
Richard Flanagan's Controversial Speech Examined – J-Wire
1+ week, 6+ day ago (955+ words) This is a very difficult article for me to write as I deeply admire Richard Flanagan’s body of work. Flanagan presents himself as a courageous truth-teller resisting a campaign of intimidation. In reality, his speech is an angry polemic that…...
Rabbi Ulman closes Royal Commission hearings: "Security is not safety"
2+ week, 4+ day ago (910+ words) Rabbi Yehoram Ulman has closed the public hearings of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion with a deeply personal appeal for Australia to confront hatred and create a country in which Jewish people are genuinely safe. The Chabad…...
Jewish leaders thank thousands who gave evidence as Royal Commission hearings conclude
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1075+ words) Australia’s leading Jewish communal organisations have thanked the thousands of people who made submissions and the hundreds who gave evidence, as the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion held its final day of public hearings. The ninth and final…...
When “anti-racism” gives antisemitism a licence
3+ week, 3+ hour ago (1305+ words) The Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion heard something notable on 20 August. A witness appearing to promote a framework against dehumanising speech defended a framework that could legitimise dehumanisation. Rita Jabri Markwell, a solicitor and adviser to the Australian…...
Leibler demands Greens senator retracts 'Zionist interests' accusation
3+ week, 9+ hour ago (533+ words) Zionist Federation of Australia president Jeremy Leibler has called on Greens Senator Nick McKim to withdraw and apologise for remarks accusing the Australian Government and Senator James Paterson of being “captured by Zionist interests”. In an open letter to McKim,…...
Gen26 survey asks how Australian Jewish life has changed
3+ week, 10+ hour ago (526+ words) Nine years after Australia’s largest survey of Jewish life found a community united by memory but varied in belief and practice, researchers are asking how the pandemic, October 7 and the Bondi Beach terror attack have changed Australian Jews. Gen26: The Australian…...