Weapons

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Former ambassador to Israel warns against delaying recognition of Palestine

Failing to recognise a Palestinian state would reward the Israeli government for its “campaign of genocidal violence”, a former Australian ambassador to Israel has warned, as the Albanese government weighs its next diplomatic steps.

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Netanyahu slated to speak at UN on Sept. 26

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is slated to speak at the U.N. General Assembly’s annual high-level debate on Sept. 26, according to a provisional schedule JNS viewed. Read more

Wellington’s “Friendly City” pact with Ramallah: a symbolic gesture with troubling implications

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L’Chaim to Life

Maurice Klein speaks with David Collier, investigative journalist exposing extremism, antisemitism, anti-Zionism, the BBC, media bias and much more. Read more

“Either us or the Zionists! There is no room for both.”

After a century of Palestinian rejectionism, nothing has changed. Read more

Researchers have grown human kidney organoids from tissue stem cells

For the first time, researchers from both Sheba Medical Centre and Tel Aviv University have grown human kidney organoids (a synthetic 3D organ culture) from tissue stem cells in the laboratory, mirroring human fetal kidney development. Read more

Shabbat VaEtchanan Nachamu

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Washington Israel embassy shooting suspect charged with hate crime

The US has brought federal hate crime charges against the man accused of fatally shooting two Israeli embassy staffers outside a Jewish museum in Washington. Read more

Another protest, another city, another cause

Families of Israelis held hostage in Gaza and their supporters marched through Tel Aviv to the Defence Ministry compound in protest for their release on Wednesday. Read more

Herzog demands truth after German media exposes fake Gaza photography

During a visit to Tallinn on Wednesday, Israel’s President Isaac Herzog used a joint press appearance with Estonian President Alar Karis to call out what he described as Hamas-led propaganda efforts, citing recent investigative reports from leading German newspapers that revealed staged images from Gaza. Read more

Hamas victims sue UNRWA

Some 200 victims of Hamas and Hezbollah filed a lawsuit in the U.S. federal court last week alleging that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, the global body’s Palestinian aid organisation, supports terrorism. Read more

What’s Yours

A Melbourne theatre review by Alex First Read more

Balance key as government reviews antisemitism report

Australia must find a balance between protecting people against racial vilification and shielding institutions, the race discrimination commissioner says. Read more

AJDS calls for sanctions against Israel

The Australian Jewish Democratic Society (AJDS) has once again moved against the mainstream Jewish community in Australia. Read more

UN confirms 88% of aid trucks in Gaza looted before reaching destination

The United Nations published data on Tuesday showing that 88.7% of aid trucks collected by the international organisation in the Gaza Strip in recent months were intercepted before reaching their destination. Read more

Is combating media bias Netanyahu’s mission impossible?

The contrast was glaring. A week after The New York Times put a horrifying yet completely misleading picture of a Palestinian Arab child in Gaza on its front page to illustrate a story that lent weight to the false claim that Israel was deliberately starving people in Gaza, it had an opportunity to put an equally awful photo in the same spot. Read more

Australia, France leaders discuss crisis in Gaza

The leaders of Australia and France have made plans to meet at a United Nations gathering, where Palestinian statehood and the crisis in Gaza will be major issues. Read more

It had to be Tisha b’Av!

On the 20^th anniversary to the day of the fateful disengagement marking the end of Jewish residence in the Gaza strip, Australia, to its shame, added its imprimatur to the perfidious list of “allies of Israel” who have succeeded, one way or another, to calumniate and defame the Jewish State. Read more

After the bridge: where do we go from here?

Normally, by midweek, I’m sitting down to write—an op-ed, a column, a reflection to be published here in Australia or shared across the globe. It’s something I do routinely, not out of obligation, but because there is always something urgent to say—something that needs to be said. Read more

Australian broadcaster Erin Molan protests for hostages in Sydney

On August 3, nearly 22 months after the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023, tens of thousands of Australians converged on Sydney’s iconic Harbor Bridge in what they called a “March for Humanity” in support of the Palestinians in Gaza. Read more

Hostage survivor to tell his story at JNF events

In an exclusive Australian first, award-winning journalist Nadav Eyal will sit down with Hamas captivity survivor Eli Sharabi for a powerful on-stage interview that promises to be the centrepiece of the JNF Australia 2025 annual campaign, “Together, We Rise With Israel.” Read more

Hostage’s brother tells UN Security Council its silence about ‘monstrous cruelty is complicity’

A multi-panelled monitor was set up in the round of the United Nations Security Council chamber in Manhattan, affording Ilay David the chance to address the body at eye level. Read more

‘Hasbara’ and the traitors among us

The release on Thursday and Friday of two hostage videos—the first by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad captors of Rom Braslavski and the second by the Hamas monsters holding Evyatar David—coincided with the global propaganda campaign claiming that Israel is purposely starving the population of Gaza. Read more

Netanyahu approves full military occupation of Gaza, per news reports

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved a full-scale military occupation of the Gaza Strip on Monday, the New York Post and Israeli media reported. Read more

Israel strikes over 30 Hamas targets, ground forces expand Gaza operations

The Israeli military continued to eliminate terrorists and destroy Hamas infrastructure in Gaza from the air and on the ground, the Israel Defence Forces said on today. Read more

Australia co-ordinating on recognition of Palestine

Australia is one step closer to recognising Palestinian statehood and is coordinating with other nations on the issue, as the foreign minister warns there might soon be “no Palestine left”. Read more

From Australia’s Jewish past

Tossy, Issy, and Adolf Spivakovsky – an amazing musical family Read more

A two-state solution? Maybe the best way to ‘ensure’ another slaughter

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The Friend

A movie review by Alex First Read more

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