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Advocacy group asks Royal Commission to subpoena ‘NY Times’

The Minority Impact Coalition, an Australian advocacy group, asked the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion to subpoena...

As antisemitism spirals, democracies must act now

Without decisive state action, rising hatred risks exploding into widespread violence. Antisemitism today is like an atomic bomb: anything can...

How to defend against antizionism – Part 3

An Arsenal Against Antizionism: How to Reclaim the Language (click here for part 1) (click here for part 2) If antizionism...

How to defend against antizionism – Part 2

Hostility as a Virtue: The Moral Logic of Antizionism (click here for part 1) Distinct forms of anti-Jewish hostility are produced...

How to defend against antizionism – Part 1

Part 1: Diagnosing the problem Today we rely on the word 'antisemitism' to describe all anti-Jewish sentiment. The word...

The forgotten exodus: Sydney honours 850,000 Jews who fled Arab lands and Iran

More than 200 people gathered at the National Council of Jewish Women hall in Woollahra on Sunday evening for...

Between two blades: Global squeeze on world Jewry

In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that the global Jewish Diaspora is facing an unsettling squeeze, one...

Never Again? How the West betrayed the Jews and itself

Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin The recent exposure of the BBC’s bias and editorial ‘doctoring’ of speeches delivered by...

The threat posed by Zohan Mamdani

By publicly and forcefully denouncing Zohran Mamdani as "a danger to the security of New York's Jewish community," Rabbi...

A credit to the community

Shadow Attorney General Julian Leeser and Labor MP Josh Burns have jointly won the coveted McKinnon Prize for 2024, ...

Sir Thomas More

I was always interested in history. Having been brought up in England, I have a particular interest in its...

Louis B. Mayer & Irving Thalberg: The whole equation

Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin This book, at this particular juncture in our history, is immensely important exactly because...

Jews know who we are — it’s time others did too

Antisemitism in Australia has reached a point where the government is finally — and seemingly — doing something about...

United Nations readies to increase Jew-hatred worldwide

A scheduled United Nations high-level conference to take place on June 17-20, 2025, in New York will be the...

A long journey home

It has taken more than two thousand years for Jews exiled by the Romans to finally return to their...

‘The Palestinian cause was liquidated on October 7th’ says Syrian activist in Jerusalem

Rawan Osman has come a long way from Lebanon, where she grew up hating Jews, to arriving in Jerusalem...

No overhaul of hate crime laws after nine-month review

A review sparked by calls to criminalise inflammatory Islamic sermons has found several unintended consequences could flow from expanding...

Daniel Deronda: George Eliot and the Jews.

In 1290, Jews were expelled from England. In 1656, Cromwell failed to persuade Parliament to welcome Jews back officially. In...

Fewer Jews in the world today than on eve of the Holocaust

Almost half of all of the Jews in the world live in Israel and the current world Jewish population...

LA film museum that first ignored Jews will hold exhibit on Hollywood’s Jewish founders

When the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opened in Los Angeles in September 2021, it drew criticism for failing...