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Sally McManus (left) with President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions Ged Kearney.
March 24, 2017, 12:02 am
Concern at ACTU secretary’s BDS views
JEWISH community leaders are concerned at the record of new Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) secretary Sally McManus (pictured) in supporting boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel.
US President-elect Donald Trump stands inside the lobby elevator of Trump Tower. Photo: EPA/Anthony Behar/SIPA USA POOL.
January 19, 2017, 12:01 am
A tale of two Trumps
ISRAELIS have never before been faced with such conflicting predictions about who will be sitting in the Oval Office.
October 20, 2016, 9:32 am
B’Tselem slammed over UN appearance
An Israeli human rights group has caused a furore, for lambasting Jerusalem’s policies from the podium of the UN Security Council.
US Secretary of State John Kerry with Benjamin Netanyahu last year.
October 14, 2016, 9:43 am
Washington, Jerusalem clash over settlements
The United Nations is expected to intensify Israel’s diplomatic woes on Friday with a special meeting about the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu and Hilary Clinton. (Photo: REUTERS)
September 29, 2016, 10:20 am
Bibi in the States
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is back home from a high-stakes trip to America. The visit put Israel’s most important alliance under a microscope, with so much riding on it. But how much of what he hoped to achieve from the visit will come to pass?
By Nathan Jeffay
September 11, 2016, 12:01 am
Obama: Incitement, settlement must end
In his swan song to the United Nations, President Barack Obama urged the Palestinians to end incitement and Israel to end settlement.
Screenshot from UNWRA Road to Terror.
July 28, 2016, 9:33 am
UN school students taught to kill Jews
Camera crews visiting United Nations-funded schools for Palestinians have uncovered new evidence that teachers are indoctrinating students with extremism and anti-Semitism.
Greens candidate for Macnamara, Steph Hodgins-May.
June 16, 2016, 12:00 am
Greens candidate ‘hurts, insults’ community
Jewish Greens supporters told The AJN this week they were disgusted, dismayed, disappointed and “so upset that talking about it isn’t an option” after Melbourne Ports candidate Stephanie Hodgins-May withdrew from a debate with her Labor and Liberal counterparts, Michael Danby and Owen Guest, to be co-hosted by The AJN and Zionism Victoria.
By Joshua Levi
November 30, 2012, 3:23 pm
UN victory for Palestinians
April 11, 2011, 12:18 pm
Howard urges Gillard to support Israel in UN
DURING a visit to Israel this month, former prime minister John Howard urged the Gillard Government to stand by the Jewish State at the United Nations later this year.
April 7, 2011, 10:07 am
Goldstone confession prompts leaders’ hope
JEWISH communal leaders have joined an international chorus in welcoming a backflip by Richard Goldstone, after he recanted the core of his hotly disputed United Nations report into Operation Cast Lead.
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.
January 7, 2011, 1:48 pm
Australia votes against “Durban III”
AUSTRALIA has been praised for voting against a United Nations proposal to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Durban conference against racism.
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