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Jewish leaders disappointed in decision to acquit antizionist

J-Wire News Service — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:27:37 +0000

A Melbourne magistrate found that antizionist activist Hash Tayeh, the former owner of the Burgertory restaurant chain, used insulting words in public when he led a crowd in chanting “all Zionists are terrorists”. However, the court stopped short of recording a guilty verdict as Tayeh mounts a constitutional free-speech challenge. Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council […]

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WhatsApp billionaire’s $200m gift to transform Shaare Zedek hospital

Rob Klein — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:12:00 +0000

A record US$200 million gift from WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum will help transform Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center. The donation from the Koum Family Foundation is one of the largest gifts ever made to an Israeli institution, the largest single donation to an Israeli hospital, and will support a facility that has treated about 2,000 […]

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Your ABC just told Jewish Australians where they stand

Michael Gencher — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:51:56 +0000

Sometimes an institution does not need to issue a statement. Its decisions say enough. The ABC’s decision to give Grace Tame a taxpayer-funded platform, through the podcast Autistic AF with Grace Tame, comes while Australia is in the middle of a serious reckoning over antisemitism. That matters. Timing matters. Judgement matters. And this decision tells […]

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Your tone-deaf ABC hires Grace Tame

J-Wire Newsdesk — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:15:56 +0000

Former Australian of Year Grace Tame has been hired by the ABC to showcase a four-episodes podcast on autism. She has, in recent months, called to “globalise the intifada” and told the ABC that reports of brutal sexual attacks on Jewish women perpetrated during the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, had been debunked. The […]

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When Jewish advocacy is treated as suspicion

Michael Gencher — Fri, 29 May 2026 06:25:31 +0000

There is an uncomfortable question sitting beneath the public discussion about antisemitism in Australia. Is the Jewish community being seen as too influential? Not influential in the ordinary democratic sense. Communities organise, lobby, make submissions, meet politicians, fund causes and argue for their place in public life every day. Business groups do it. Unions do […]

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Chumps

Michael Kuttner — Fri, 29 May 2026 03:42:10 +0000

Listening to the rhetoric emanating from the White House, the media, and sundry foreign ministries, one cannot help but feel that something rotten is being cooked up. The definition of a “chump” is someone who is a sucker, gullible or easily deceived. Unfortunately, this more than adequately sums up the prevailing scenario as far as […]

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STOP PRESS: Limmud will run LimmudOZ without Adamama

Rob Klein — Wed, 27 May 2026 07:29:39 +0000

STOP PRESS: Unfortunately Shalom Collective and Limmud Oz Sydney have been unable to agree on the final program for Adamama & Limmud Festival 2026. The joint event has been cancelled, and Limmud Oz is proceeding with a separate event. For details, click here Adamama and LimmudOz will join forces over the June long weekend […]

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Airport worker to face trial over alleged Nazi salutes at Jewish children

J-Wire News Service — Wed, 27 May 2026 03:01:13 +0000

A Melbourne airport worker accused of directing Nazi salutes at Jewish schoolchildren inside Melbourne Airport has pleaded not guilty and will fight the charges. Oscar Diaz Ysuiza, 24, from Greenvale in Melbourne’s north, appeared in Melbourne Magistrates Court on Tuesday charged with two counts of performing a Nazi salute in a public place in circumstances […]

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Confessions of a Peace Activist

J-Wire Newsdesk — Tue, 26 May 2026 08:04:27 +0000

By Donna Jacobs-Sife Like most of us, October 7 changed me. Prior to that day, I facilitated countless dialogue groups and listening circles with Palestinians and Jews, taught Jewish studies, attended protests, and served as program director for more than a decade with Together for Humanity. I was also a long-time mentee of the great […]

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Commissioner condemns online abuse of Jewish witnesses

Rob Klein — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:12:15 +0000

Commissioner Virginia Bell has issued a dramatic warning to people intimidating and harassing Jewish witnesses who have given evidence to the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion. Bell opened Tuesday’s hearing in Sydney by saying she was disturbed by reports of a “dramatic increase in online hate messages” directed at lived-experience witnesses who had […]

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