Peter Wertheim
Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Photo: AAP Image/Lukas Coch
April 19, 2019, 12:00 am
Committed to West Jerusalem as capital
COMMUNAL leaders have welcomed the opening of a new Australian Trade and Defence Office in Jerusalem as a sign of Australia's continued commitment to recognising Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
Hezbollah flags in southern Lebanon. The UK will be banning Hezbollah in its entirety, not just its military wing. Photo: John Grummet/Dreamstime.com
March 4, 2019, 12:00 am
Call for Australia to follow UK’s Hezbollah ban
Australia's peak Jewish body has written to the Prime Minister urging the federal government to follow the UK's example and enact a complete ban on Hezbollah.
By Gareth Narunsky
Stanislaw Michalkiewicz. Photo: YouTube screenshot
February 24, 2019, 12:01 am
Jews, Poles join in condemnation
JEWISH groups have joined a major Polish communal organisation in condemning a broadcaster visiting from Poland for his blatantly antisemitic remarks.
By Peter Kohn
Holocaust survivor Peter Halas at Bondi Beach in front of Anthony Glick's mural – one of many that was defaced in last weekend's antisemitic graffiti attack. Photo: Noel Kessel
February 14, 2019, 12:01 am
‘A reminder of darker times’
Holocaust survivor Peter Halas, who is usually at Bondi Beach every morning, was interstate on Sunday when he received photographs of the swastikas daubed along the promenade.
By Gareth Narunsky
Dr Paul Bauert. Photo: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas
February 14, 2019, 12:00 am
Doctor’s apology for Auschwitz comparison rebuffed
An Australian medical expert has been accused of inadequately apologising after implying refugees on Manus Island and Nauru are worse off than Holocaust victims who were sent to be gassed at Auschwitz.
By Peter Kohn
Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad faces the media on Monday. Photo: AP Photo/Yam G-Jun
January 31, 2019, 12:01 am
Disqualified!
THE International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has stripped Malaysia of the right to host the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships.
By Gareth Narunsky
People at the rally performed Nazi salutes. Photo: Screengrab, ABC News
January 10, 2019, 12:01 am
‘Confine these views to the dustbin of history’
JEWISH leaders have joined a legion of Australians condemning an anti-immigration rally in Melbourne on Saturday attended by Queensland senator Fraser Anning, at which neo-Nazi salutes were made and Nazi paraphernalia was displayed.
By Peter Kohn
Amos Oz. Photo: Omer Messinger/PA
January 3, 2019, 12:01 am
Oz remembered
ISRAEL and world Jewry have "lost a giant" with the passing of Amos Oz, Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-CEO Peter Wertheim said this week.
By Gareth Narunsky
ECAJ co-CEO Peter Wertheim. Photo: Noel Kessel
December 23, 2018, 12:01 am
ECAJ ‘cautiously welcomes’ findings
THE Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) has "cautiously welcomed" the long-awaited release of the Religious Freedom Review and the federal government's response.
By Gareth Narunsky
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’
Shira Ish-Ran and her husband Amichai.
December 13, 2018, 12:01 am
New-born son passes away
WHEN Ilana and Leo Dubb made aliyah from Sydney four years ago, they would never have imagined seeing their granddaughter and prematurely delivered great-grandson fighting for their lives after a terrorist attack. But that was their reality this week after seven-months pregnant Shira Ish-Ran, the couple's granddaughter, was shot by a Palestinian terrorist while waiting for a bus in Ofra, in the West Bank.
By Gareth Narunsky
Netta Barzilai.
December 13, 2018, 12:01 am
SBS threatens boycotters
EUROVISION broadcaster SBS has threatened to sue anti-Israel boycott activists for using its logo on their campaign materials.
By Gareth Narunsky
Six biased United Nations General Assembly annual resolutions against Israel were opposed by Australia.
December 6, 2018, 12:01 am
Australia rejects biased resolutions
AUSTRALIA has stood firm in opposing six biased annual resolutions against Israel in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), including three on which it had previously abstained.
By Gareth Narunsky
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