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Pianist loses case against orchestra over Gaza statement

Concert pianist Jayson Lloyd Gillham has lost his Federal Court case against the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra after claiming he...

Israeli investigator challenges UN over response to Hamas sexual violence

An Israeli human rights expert has accused the United Nations of failing victims of sexual violence during the October...

Pillay Peace Prize pick pilloried

The decision to award former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay the 2025 Sydney Peace Prize has drawn fierce...

Israel demands immediate retraction of “faked” UN backed report on Gaza

The Israel Foreign Ministry Director General Eden Bar-Tal has written to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification demanding the...

Israel threatens economic retaliation as Palestinians seek unilateral statehood

Moves by several European countries to recognize Palestinian statehood have emboldened Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to push for unilateral...

The UN gives a master class in anti-Semitism

Guilty of Nazi-like crimes. That’s the verdict of a United Nations “commission of inquiry” on Israel that was created...

UN remembers the Holocaust as it abandons the Jewish People

The United Nations (UN) ceremony to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day was held on 27 January - as the...

World Jewish Congress and Israeli Mission to reconstruct 1947 Partition Plan vote at former UN headquarters in New York

The World Jewish Congress and Israel’s Mission to the United Nations will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the November 29, 1947 United Nations vote that called for the establishment of a Jewish state, with a reconstruction of events in the very structure that served as the UN headquarters at that time.

The end of the war

Israel's President Reuven Rivlin and Israel's ambassador to the United Nations have both delivered important speeches on the 70th anniversary marking the end of WWII.

Israel and the UN Vote

Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a statement on the defeated UN vote on a draft resolution for the establishment of a Palestinian state.