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Albanese faces pressure from religious groups over hate speech laws

A coalition of faith leaders has urged the Prime Minister to reject a deal with the Greens on proposed...

ECAJ calls for compromise on hate speech laws

Australia’s peak Jewish body has warned against a wholesale rejection of the federal government’s proposed hate speech legislation, as...

Greens court controversy with ‘Sanction Israel’ arm patch

The NZ Green Party is facing renewed criticism from New Zealand’s Jewish community after proudly promoting an image of...

Jewish leaders warn against Labor-Greens deal in Tasmania

Australia’s peak Jewish representative body has urged Tasmanian Labor leader Dean Winter to reject any governing alliance with the...

The Greens aren’t done yet — and their anti-Israel agenda is alive and well

On Tuesday, 17 June, Sydney's Northern Beaches Council will debate a motion that has no business appearing on a...

Bandt loses his seat

The leader of the Greens, Adam Bandt, lost his seat when Sarah Witty was declared the new ALP MP...

Backlash over Greens’ decision to appoint Faruqi to antisemitism inquiry

The Greens' decision to appoint Senator Mehreen Faruqi to a Senate committee investigating antisemitism at universities has sparked a...

Indigenous Friends of Israel slams The Greens

Indigenous Friends of Israel founders Norman and Barbara Miller condemn the ignorance, racism, and antisemitism of the Greens MPs...

Dave Sharma: Greens have blind spot on anti-Semitism

The Greens have a blind spot on anti-Semitism and are "demonising the state of Israel" during its conflict with...

The Greens shifts its Middle East policy

AIJAC National Chairman Mark Leibler has questioned The Greens' credibility following the political party's Middle Eastern policy announced on...

ZFA slams Greens request to universities to ignore IHRA antisemitism definition

Senator Mehreen Faruqi and Senator Jordon Steele-John of the Australian Greens party announced on 9 February that they have...

Who is Annalena Baerbock, Germany’s new foreign minister?

Annalena Baerbock’s career as the first female foreign minister in Germany was introduced to the Jewish community with a...

NZ Green Party MPs uses Hamas slogan

The New Zealand Jewish Council has condemned the inflammatory comments and inaccurate statements made by two Green MPs in recent days, which risk stoking antisemitism and endangering Jews in New Zealand.

Greens MP told to go back to history books and apologises for Holocaust photo posted on Facebook

A post depicting images of children Holocaust prisoners next to an image purported to be of incarcerated refugee children being detained in the USA has been removed from the Facebook belonging to Ballina NSW Greens MP Tamara Smith.

ZFA asks The Greens to condemn eco terrorism

The Zionist Federation of Australia calls upon Senator Richard Di Natale as leader of the Australian Greens to abide by its core principles and condemn the eco terrorism being perpetrated by Palestinians in Gaza against Israel. 

NSW Greens want funding stripped from Jewish schools

NSW Labor frontbencher Walt Secord has clashed with the NSW Greens over their education policy targeting non-government schools – after they moved amendments in State Parliament to strip funding from private schools including all NSW Jewish high schools.