2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (700+ words) This week, 25 years ago, an impressive conference convened by the United Nations to combat the racism that had been rising in Europe and North America following waves of immigration to those regions in the preceding years got underway. Approximately 16,000 participants…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (400+ words) The prime minister has defended a decision not to follow the UK in announcing trade bans on Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. Anthony Albanese has defended his government’s decision not to join the UK in restricting trade with…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (586+ words) There was a time when any policy announcement from the foreign secretary of the United Kingdom was a momentous event. But that was a long time ago. Still, the panic in some quarters about this development is overstated. So, too,…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (637+ words) Israel’s ambassador Hillel Newman has urged Australia to resist a British-style ban on settlement goods, warning against broader sanctions as Canberra prepares further targeted action over violence and settlement expansion in the West Bank. Newman told The Australian that sanctions…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (795+ words) Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar declared “countermeasures” against the United Kingdom following Tuesday’s announcement by his British counterpart, Ed Miliband, that the United Kingdom would ban products from Judea and Samaria. “The accusations made today by the Foreign Secretary of…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (940+ words) New Zealand Labour leader Chris Hipkins says a Labour government would formally recognise a Palestinian state and join international measures targeting goods from Israeli settlements, while declaring that an “unfolding genocide” is taking place in Gaza. Labour has sharpened its…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (570+ words) Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s finance minister, called for the British ambassador to be “expelled” immediately, adding: “We will not be a doormat trampled by an antisemitic government, in a country conquered by radical Islam, trying to save itself from economic and…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (156+ words) JNF supporters gathered in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth for recent events combining international guests, personal stories and support for Israel’s recovery. British barrister and Israel advocate Natasha Hausdorff headlined the annual campaign events in Sydney on 1 September, Melbourne on 3 September…...