Alex Ryvchin
Wayne Kurnorth
May 2, 2019, 12:00 am
Labor’s latest pains
LABOR has dumped a Northern Territory Senate hopeful who had shared antisemitic conspiracy theories on Facebook.
By Gareth Narunsky
Josh Wilson speaking in Parliament last year. Photo: AAP Image/Lukas Coch
April 18, 2019, 12:00 am
‘An insult to our national debate’
AS the Australian Labor Party battles against anti-Israel elements within its ranks, leader Bill Shorten has stressed that a "Shorten Labor government will be committed to maintaining close ties with Israel".
Melissa Parke.
April 13, 2019, 6:15 pm
WA Labor candidate quits over Israel comments
OPPOSITION leader Bill Shorten says Labor’s candidate for the WA seat of Curtin Melissa Parke did the “right thing” after withdrawing from the election contest over controversial comments she made about Israel.
By Gareth Narunsky
Greens candidate for Macnamara, Steph Hodgins-May.
April 5, 2019, 12:00 am
Greens’ post slammed
JEWISH leaders have expressed their disgust at a gibe by a Greens staffer working for Macnamara candidate Steph Hodgins-May that deaths in Gaza were Israeli "genocide".
By Peter Kohn
Bennelong MP John Alexander removing the graffiti in Epping. Photo: Facebook
April 4, 2019, 12:00 am
Antisemitic graffiti condemned
JEWISH leaders have expressed their outrage after a string of swastikas and antisemitic remarks were daubed across Sydney late last month.
The offending graffiti which has since been removed.
March 29, 2019, 12:21 pm
Police investigating neo-Nazi graffiti in Sydney
POLICE are appealing for information after a series of neo-Nazi symbols and antisemitic remarks were sprayed on a Sydney laneway.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Photo: AAP Image/Lukas Coch
March 29, 2019, 12:00 am
Australia backs Israel at the UN
SCOTT Morrison's government has received kudos from the Jewish community for its stand against a spate of anti-Israel resolutions by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
By Peter Kohn
An Israeli house hit by a Hamas rocket this week. Photo: Israel Police
March 28, 2019, 12:00 am
Australian Jewish leaders condemn Hamas attacks
JEWISH community leaders in Australia have condemned a barrage of Hamas rocket attacks against civilians in central Israel this week. 
By Peter Kohn
Penny Wong addressing the Labor Party National Conference on Tuesday. Photo: AAP Image/Lukas Coch
December 20, 2018, 6:49 pm
Lines drawn in the sand
SEVENTY years of Australian bipartisan agreement on Israel are over. On Tuesday, four days after Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that Australia now recognises West Jerusalem as Israel's capital, the Australian Labor Party – which says it will reverse that recognition in government – passed a resolution to recognise Palestine as a state.
By Gareth Narunsky
Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaking at the Sydney Institute last Saturday. Photo: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas
December 20, 2018, 6:45 pm
Mixed reaction to Prime Minister’s announcement
THE Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) has called Labor's pledge to reverse the Morrison government's recognition of West Jerusalem as Israel's capital "hasty and ill-advised".
By Gareth Narunsky
Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Photo: Peter Haskin
December 16, 2018, 11:11 am
‘West Jerusalem is the capital of Israel’
President Bill Clinton (centre), presiding over ceremonies marking the signing of the 1993 peace accord between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (left) and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat on September 13, 1993. Photo: AP Photo/Ron Edmonds
September 13, 2018, 12:01 am
Twenty-five years on
JEWISH community leaders in Australia have offered mixed reflections on the quarter century since the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestinians were signed in a ceremony on the White House lawn on September 13, 1993.
By Peter Kohn
Sderot residents survey the damage to a house caused by a rocket from Gaza. Photo: Sderot Municipality
July 19, 2018, 12:01 am
ABC coverage bombs
THE Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) has lodged an official complaint with the ABC over its coverage of events in Israel and Gaza last weekend.
By Gareth Narunsky
Allanah Zitserman. Photo: Giselle Haber
June 4, 2018, 6:04 pm
Campaign raises the alarm
THE edgy theme for JCA's 2018 annual campaign was "Dangerous Ideas", but large crowds at events in Sydney's north and east were in safe hands, as movers and shakers representing a broad spectrum of Jewry were steered by renowned futurist Phill Nosworthy into a discussion about the challenges facing the NSW and ACT Jewish communities.
By Shane Desiatnik
The Honi Soit cover featuring Hamida al-Taher.
May 31, 2018, 12:00 am
Terrorism glorified: Outrage over University of Sydney student magazine
The editors responsible for a University of Sydney student magazine cover depicting a suicide bomber who killed more than 50 people – including several Israeli and Lebanese soldiers – have defied calls for an apology.
By Gareth Narunsky
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