anti-Israel
Jibril Rajoub speaking after Argentina cancelled its pre-World Cup friendly against Israel. Photo: AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed
August 30, 2018, 12:00 am
Rajoub shown red card by FIFA
FIFA has suspended the top official in Palestinian football, because he "incited hatred and violence" when he tried to turn international players against Israel.
By Nathan Jeffay
Bob Carr in friendlier times at a 2005 Friends of the Hebrew University function. Photo: Nathan Smith
May 31, 2018, 12:00 am
Carr’s latest rant leaves ALP leaders’ patience ‘stretched’
A senior NSW Labor figure has slammed former foreign minister Bob Carr after he accused Israel of "war crimes" and said the recent Gaza violence "makes it inevitable" that federal Labor will recognise Palestine.
By Gareth Narunsky
The SWF panel. Photo: Twitter
May 10, 2018, 12:00 am
Festival session a parody masquerading as debate
No-one suggests every political session at the SWF need comprise an equal number of protagonists advocating competing perspectives; but surely the integrity of the festival demands what on any objective analysis should be a reasonable measure of balance.
Jeremy Corbyn. Photo: Daniel Leavl-Olivas/Pool/Getty Images
April 5, 2018, 12:00 am
Corbyn under fire for attending anti-Israel seder
British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has come under fire for attending a seder hosted by a far-left Jewish group called Jewdas that has described Israel as a “steaming pile of sewage whichroperly disposed of”.
Roger Waters being interviewed by Waleed Aly on The Project. Photo: Screengrab/Channel 10
February 22, 2018, 12:00 am
Roger Waters and BDS: Toxic waters go unchallenged
Roger Waters embarked on a rant that has shocked and offended many within the music industry with its open hatred, bigotry and homophobia.
UNESCO'S newly elected director-general, Audrey Azoulay, is Jewish. Photo: AP Photo/Michel Euler
October 19, 2017, 12:00 am
US pulls out of UNESCO, Israel set to follow
Israel has applauded America for leaving a UN agency that has become notorious for criticising the Jewish State and downplaying Jerusalem's Jewish history.
By Nathan Jeffay
Kingsford Smith MP Matt Thistlethwaite.
December 22, 2016, 12:00 am
MP wrongly listed on anti-Israel petition
The Australia Palestine Advocacy Network has apologised to federal MP Matt Thistlethwaite after it mistakenly listed him as a signatory on an anti-Israel petition.
By Evan Zlatkis
Adelaide media personality Peter Goers.
October 13, 2016, 12:00 am
ABC host slammed over anti-Israel rant
Communal leaders have condemned a diatribe by Adelaide media personality Peter Goers, demeaning Israel as “guns and Moses ... one long persecution of Palestinians”.
By Peter Kohn
Naz Shah, center, was suspended from the British Labour Party on April 27, 2016. (JTA)
September 7, 2016, 1:19 pm
Anti-Semitic death threat against UK MP
A Jewish member of the British Parliament was put under police protection following an anti-Semitic death threat against Ruth Smeeth on Facebook.
A promotional image for Tales of a City by the Sea.
May 12, 2016, 12:00 am
Furore over ‘anti-Israel’ VCE play
VICTORIAN education minister James Merlino has come under fire after Victorian high school students found a “heavily biased” stage-play about life in Gaza during the conflict with Israel on their curriculum.
By Peter Kohn
February 25, 2016, 10:03 am
Anti-Israel activists target London tube
The discovery of hundreds of posters marking Israel Apartheid Week on London Underground trains sparked a commotion in Jerusalem on Monday, with senior administration officials, as well as members of the opposition, contacting their British counterparts demanding answers.
June 13, 2014, 12:00 am
Sydney Uni staff narrowly vote down BDS
THE University of Sydney branch of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) may have moved towards joining the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement if not for the intervention of NTEU national general secretary Grahame McCulloch.
By Gareth Narunsky
June 21, 2012, 10:08 am
ABC’s ear-bashing over ‘anti-Israel’ reports
MICHAEL Danby has taken the ABC to task over two separate reports he described as anti-Israel and lacking in context. Danby blasted the national broadcaster over a report late last year on an Australian citizen who was jailed in Israel for spying on behalf of Hamas. The introduction to the report began: “Israel considers Hamas a terrorist organisation.”
By adam kamien
February 22, 2011, 7:03 am
Human rights boss totes anti-Israel baggage
NAVI Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has been invited to visit Australia in May to discuss hot-button issues, including the treatment of asylum seekers and Aborigines, which have been highlighted in a UN human rights review. But the consistently anti-Israel record of the 47-member UN Human Rights Council (HRC), which Pillay reports to, has been overlooked in the lead-up to her trip.
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