Silence is Golden (but my eyes still see)…writes Ted Lapkin

Per usual, the news last week has been mixed so we’ll go from bad to good in the hopes of concluding on an upbeat note that will help you usher in this week with a smile… Read more

Transparency For Thee, But Not For Me…writes Ted Lapkin

Sorry to commence the New Year with a downer, but in one respect the first week of 2016 has proved very similar to the 52 preceding it. Read more

Time is on our side

T’is the season for end-of-year summations, tra-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la. Read more

From immorality to illegality

Last week was a mixed bag on the BDS front, with some good, some bad and some very, very ugly…writes Ted Lapkin. Read more

Trouble in paradise

Over recent weeks I’ve focused on keeping readers apprised of relevant and interesting stories that might be a bit off the beaten path of Australian media…writes Ted Lapkin. Read more

Bojo tells it like it is…writes Ted Lapkin

Amongst Palestinians, speaking well of Zionism can be a capital offence. At least that’s what Conservative Party Mayor of London Boris Johnson learned while leading a trade mission this week to Israel. Read more

Saving American lives

This past Monday I accompanied ZFA President Dr. Danny Lamm and VP Sam Tatarka to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Offices in Melbourne where we spent an hour talking to Foreign Minister Julie Bishop…writes Ted Lapkin. Read more

Nightmare becomes reality…writes Ted Lapkin

Imagine a world in which Melissa Parke – the far-left, largely unknown federal Labor Member for Fremantle – defies the odds and wins the ALP leadership. Read more

Fruit of the poisoned Big Apple tree

So it was same’ ol – same ol’ last week at Turtle Bay in the Big Apple, that site along the banks of New York City’s East River where the United Nations headquarters is located…writes Ted Lapkin. Read more

‘Wowserism’ Spelled…From Right to Left

It’s Erev Rosh Hashana and the stats are in – at the cusp of the Hebrew year 5776 Israel’s population stands at 8,412,000…writes Ted Lapkin. Read more

Offbeat tales from Ted Lapkin

I want to focus on a few off-and-up-beat stories that might have escaped your notice in the hurly burly of the normal news cycle….writes Ted Lapkin. Read more

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

This past weekend the ZFA held its annual Plenary Conference at the Sydney Jewish Museum. Read more

Double Indemnity…writes Ted Lapkin

Just when you think Barack Obama’s indifference to Jewish sensibilities couldn’t get any more obscene, he goes and instructs his Justice Department to side with Palestinian terrorists against American victims of terror. Read more

Of crimes in Israel

“Zero tolerance for terrorism, wherever it comes from, whatever side of the fence it comes from, we have to fight it, and fight it together.”  These were the words of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, spoken while visiting the members of a Palestinian family injured by a cowardly firebombing attack. Read more

Save the Children Demands ‘Guarantees That Guarantee Nothing’

Another week, another so-called ‘report’ casting aspersions against Israel. Or so it seems….writes Ted Lapkin. Read more

Waging lawfare against Israel…writes Ted Lapkin

In Europe anti-Zionist activists are abusing national and international law in a coordinated campaign designed to chip away at Israel’s national legitimacy. Read more

Rockin’ Ra’anana with the Backstreet Boys – or – eat your heart out Roger Waters…writes Ted Lapkin

The Illinois General Assembly made history last week by passing legislation that would prohibit the state’s pension fund from investing in companies that participate in the anti-Israel boycott. Read more

How the East (of Jerusalem) Was Won…writes Ted Lapkin

Forty eight years ago, the squawk of an incoming radio transmission echoed through the war room at IDF Central Command. Read more