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UAE lining up with Israel, US on demanding Palestinian reform

The United Arab Emirates is emerging as a hardline critic of the Palestinian Authority at the annual Arab League summit in Bahrain, refusing to back a significant budget until Ramallah makes sweeping changes such as halting payments to terrorists and ending incitement. Read more

Dry Bones: Hamas in America

We should have seen it coming… Read more

Buried facts about the Gaza war

The extent to which the political class and the media are burying facts that undermine their poisonous narrative in order to defame and undermine Israel’s war of survival has become simply jaw-dropping. Read more

Victorian ALP state conference to deal with four anti-Israel motions

The Australian reports that four motions drafted by the Socialist Left will be debated at the Victorian ALP’s conference this weekend. Read more

Protesters to meet with university staff over camps

Pro-Palestine students at a major Melbourne university will meet with staff for the first time since they set up camp inside a building, in a move branded a “significant safety risk”.
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Call for a judicial enquiry

Senior members of the Coalition, including Peter Dutton and eleven cross-benchers, have sent a letter directly to the prime minister requesting a judicial inquiry into antisemitism in university campuses. Read more

Disruption as protesters remain at university camps

Classes at one of Australia’s biggest universities are set to be cancelled for a third day in a row as pro-Palestine protesters around the nation defy orders to pack up encampments. Read more

Craven capitulation

When the leader of the so-called “free world” wobbles and succumbs to appalling appeasement, international bullies and terrorists rejoice. Read more

US House votes to force weapons shipments to Israel

The Republican-led US House of Representatives has passed a bill that will force President Joe Biden to send weapons to Israel, seeking to rebuke the Democrat for delaying bomb shipments as he urges Israel to do more to protect civilians during its war with Hamas. Read more

Josephus Hero or Traitor

The man we know as Josephus (the Romans called him Flavius Josephus ), was an aristocratic Judean, born in Jerusalem in 37 CE and died in Rome somewhere around 100 CE. Read more

Sydney Jewish Museum expansion gets the green light

The Sydney Jewish Museum has received approval from the City of Sydney Council for its major capital works project which will extensively enlarge its space. Read more

Five Israeli soldiers killed in friendly fire incident

The Israel Defense Forces confirmed on Thursday morning it is investigating a friendly fire incident in northern Gaza on Wednesday which killed five soldiers and injured another seven in northern Gaza. Read more

Treasures of Old Jewish Sydney: a book review by Anne Sarzin

Dr Jana Vytrhlik’s remarkable book, Treasures of Old Jewish Sydney: The story of a visual heritage, is an impressive contribution to knowledge on this subject, which she has researched for almost a decade. Read more

Next stop: New York

Doron Chester is a young and in-demand musical theatre star – born and raised in Bondi and has been in constant work since graduating from the Australian Institute of Music with a Bachelor of Music (Music Theatre). Read more

A rabbi’s praise for Eden Golan

I have had a near-zero interest in Eurovision for the past 45 years. Read more

Dry Bones: Kickstarted

On our own to face the enemies of Western civilization … Read more

Netanyahu advances contentious bill to conscript orthodox men

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced on Wednesday that the Israeli premier will advance contentious legislation for conscripting members of the Orthodox Jewish community into army service. Read more

Student lock-in at uni hall leads to cancelled classes

Classes have been cancelled for a second day after pro-Palestine protesters spent the night locked in a renamed University of Melbourne hall. Read more

Labor senator rebuked over pro-Palestine call

The Senate has rebuked a Labor senator who broke ranks with her party and branded Israel’s actions in Gaza a “genocide” before using a controversial pro-Palestine phrase.
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Israel asks why armed men were at UN site amid fighting

Antagonism between Israel and the United Nations worsened as the Israeli army sought an explanation for footage showing armed men next to UN Palestinian relief agency vehicles. Read more

The Three Musketeers: Part I D’Artagnan

A movie review by Alex First Read more

Shabbat Emor: Differences that Bind

The book of Leviticus is concerned with difference. Read more

FIFA to vote on banning Israel

The world soccer body FIFA will vote tomorrow on a resolution calling on banning Israel from international matches. Read more

Israel kills 15 terrorists in Hamas command centre inside UNRWA school

Israeli aircraft killed 15 terrorists in a strike on a Hamas command centre located inside a UNRWA school on Saturday, the Israel Defence Forces said. Read more

On Independence Day, Israelis choose life

The people of Israel are different. Despite a terrible war, on Israel’s 76th birthday, nothing is clearer than the strength of its extraordinary young people. Read more

After faulting ‘fog of war’ for cloudy Hamas casualty numbers, UN’s new stats still don’t appear to add up

A day after a U.N. spokesman attributed a nearly 100% overcounting of Gazan women and children casualties to “the fog of war,” the global body now says that the overall death toll in Gaza due to the war remains the same. Read more

Jewish protesters removed from Johannesburg anti-Israel conference

South African police forcefully removed a group of Jewish protesters from outside the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg. Read more

Dry Bones: Hamas mobs

Brainwashed for Palestinian terrorists … Read more

Students turfed from second pro-Palestine encampment

A second major university has moved to shut down a pro-Palestine encampment. Read more

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