Palestine – Obama Admits Defeat On Renewed Negotiations For Two-State Solution

President Obama has finally admitted the death of any renewed negotiations for a two-state solution between Israel and the PLO for the next several years – telling the media on 24 March: Read more

From ANZAC Private to District Commissioner of the Galilee

An ANZAC who became a British District Commissioner in Palestine  was assassinated in Nazareth in 1937. Mourned and respected by Jews, his biographer now seeks his descendants.

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For victim Adele Biton, Palestinian rock-throwing is murder, not ‘resistance’

Parents in Israel are in mourning over the death of their child at the hands of Palestinian terrorists. Read more

Getting antisemitism wrong at the United Nations…writes Ben Cohen/JNS.org

You have to hand it to the United Nations, I guess. It’s hard to think of another body that would organise a special meeting on the subject of rising antisemitism with anti-Semites not just in attendance, but making speeches as well. Read more

EcoPeace explained

Sydneysiders thirsting for signs of hope from the Middle East filled Newtown Synagogue’s Community Hall to hear leading Israeli environmentalist Gidon Bromberg, co-director of EcoPeace Middle East, deliver some encouraging news. Read more

Anti-Defamation Commission takes issue with President Carter

The B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission  has severely criticised as wrong and offensive comments by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter last week that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was one of the contributing reasons for the heinous murders in Paris. Read more

Israel launches campaign to discredit International Criminal Court inquiry

The Israeli government has launched a public diplomacy campaign to discredit the legitimacy of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) recent decision to start an inquiry into what the Palestinians call Israeli “war crimes” in the disputed territories. Read more

Netanyahu rejects ICC’s decision to open preliminary examination

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected a decision by the International Criminal Court to open a preliminary examination into the situation in Palestine. Read more

New Zealand at the UN Security Council: “a return to the pre-1967 borders”

New Zealand’s Ambassador to the United Nations Jim McLay has delivered his first address at the UN Security Council open debate on the Middle East. Read more

Palestinian leader two-faced on suppressing satirists

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas denounced as “heinous” the attack on French satirists who mocked Islam…writes Stephen M Flatow/JNS.org Read more

Palestine – Mapping The Truth Erases A Long-running Fiction

The US State Department Bureau of Consular Affairs has featured a map on its website – which both rejects and corrects the misleading use of the terms “1967 boundaries” and “1967 borders” – which have never existed in relation to any territorial subdivision between Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. Read more

Islamist terrorism in France accompanied by anti-Israel conspiracy theories

In a traumatic week for Paris that saw the murders of 12 people at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, four hostages at a kosher supermarket in Porte de Vincennes, and a police officer in Montrouge—all coming at the hands of Islamist terrorists—the violence was accompanied by the usual anti-Israel conspiracy theories. Read more

Australia votes against Palestinian state resolution

In one of its last acts before vacating its seat on the United Nations Security Council, Australia has voted against a draft resolution calling for the establishment of a Palestinian state. Read more

Israeli-Palestinian peace hopes – the latest poll

58% of Palestinians believe that Israel wants to extend its borders – 37% of Israelis believe the Palestinians want to conquer Israel.  Read more

Australia opts out of Geneva conference

Australia boycotted a conference in Switzerland discussing the Fourth Geneva Convention and the situation in the Palestinian territories due to concerns about the conference’s anti-Israel bias. Read more

The Walkleys – more have their say

Members of Australia’s Jewish community have slammed the Walkleys for awarding the highest journalistic honour in Australia to  Ruth Pollard, John Lyons and an ABC-Four Corners team. Read more

How to win a Walkley…writes Emily Gian

Step 1: Become Middle East Correspondent, Step 2: Write incessantly against Israel Read more

South African Jewish leaders meeting with Abbas creates backlash

Senior leadership of the South African Jewish community has met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and President Zuma at the Presidential Guest House in Pretoria. Read more

Words matter: how vocabulary defines the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Settlements or Jewish communities? West Bank or Judea and Samaria? East Jerusalem or eastern Jerusalem? Those are some of the language choices that journalists covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are faced with each day—and those choices should not be taken lightly, experts say…writes Jacob Kamaras/JNS.org Read more

What’s in a headline?…asks Emily Gian

These days when you consider the information you take in when looking at a newspaper article or an item on a website, everything often boils down to the headline which attracts the attention. Read more

Palestine – Continuing Jew-hatred Must Extract A Heavy Price

The slaughter of four Rabbis with axes, knives and guns whilst praying in a synagogue along with the serious wounding of six other Jews caught in this horrific blood bath – and the murder of a Druze police officer who went to their rescue – is the end result of endemic Jew-hatred…writes David Singer Read more

Glick cartoon in Palestinian media

A Palestinian Authority newspaper printed a cartoon portraying wounded Temple Mount activist Rabbi Yehudah Glick as a snake, Palestinian Media Watch reported Thursday. Read more

What to do about car terrorism…writes Stephen Flatow

As I prepare for an upcoming visit to Israel, I can’t help but feel a twinge of apprehension. How could it be otherwise? Read more

Toxic Concoctions…writes Michael Kuttner

Like the witches’ brew in Macbeth the cauldron of noxious ingredients is being stirred on a daily basis by Abbas and members of his Hamas/Fatah Authority. Read more

Can the political left tackle antisemitism?…asks Ben Cohen

While I’ve never been a big fan of celebrity interventions in politics, I will concede that, on occasion, a big-screen actor or a rock star will achieve the kind of impact that mere mortals can only dream about. Read more

Sweden recognises Palestine

Sweden on Thursday officially recognized a Palestinian state, with Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom saying that the “criteria of international law” have been met because there is “a [Palestinian] territory, a people, and government,” The Associated Press reported. Read more

British vote epitomizes ignorance, opportunism and malice

The British parliamentary resolution that called for the immediate and unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state, endorsed by an overwhelming majority of 274 to 12, was an unprecedentedly aggressive act…writes Isi Leibler. Read more

Films, chants, and antisemitism – the protest at Verona…writes Julie Nathan

The protest against the Israeli Film Festival went ahead in Sydney last Thursday evening, despite the preceding court drama. Read more

Palestine – Abbas Facing Prosecution For Aiding And Abetting War Crimes…writes David Singer

Mahmoud Abbas – Head of the Government of National Consensus in Gaza since 2 June – faces prosecution in the international criminal justice system for aiding and abetting war crimes involving the indiscriminate firing of 384 rockets and missiles from Gaza into Israeli population centres reaching as far away as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem over the past four days. Read more

New Zealanders told to quit Gaza

Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully says New Zealand is greatly concerned at the recent escalation of violence in Gaza and Israel, and in particular the deaths of civilians. Read more

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