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Raised to hate Jews, now fighting antisemitism – featured speaker NCJWA conference

Syrian-born activist and writer Rawan Osman, who says she was raised to hate Jews before becoming a prominent advocate...

The fateful question for Diaspora Jews

The current onslaught against the Jewish people is causing many Diaspora Jews to ask themselves profound and unsettling questions. Israel...

How to define an antisemite

The rise of Jew-hatred in America can be reversed, but only if it is fought differently. The hate-mongers have been...

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...

The truth about Zionism

Fifty years ago today, on Nov. 10, 1975, my father, Chaim Herzog, then Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations...

Australia’s antisemitism plan can’t wait for a counterpart

Antisemitism in Australia is at crisis level—there is no other way to describe it. Jewish Australians are facing continuing and...

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...

Israel has repeatedly been mugged by reality

At its core, Zionism is all about Jewish self-determination. Whilst we all parrot those words, at the same time, we...

World In Crisis

According to Bartelby in the Economist last week, we are heading towards a global disaster. Political instability at a moment of another industrial...

The post-Oct 7 era of official antisemitism begins

It’s easy to think of the opening of the International Court of Justice’s trial of Israel that began this...

Teshuvah is for everyone

No moment in Jewish history was as breathtaking as the revelation at Sinai. At that moment, a slave rabble became...

The British Mandate

The British Mandate of Palestine was established on July 24th, 1922. It was approved at a private meeting of...

Netanyahu: Herzog’s judicial reform proposal perpetuates imbalance of power

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a judicial compromise proposal presented on Wednesday night by President Isaac Herzog during...

From Australia’s Jewish Past: Celebrating National Council of Jewish Women NSW Division’s 100th anniversary

Whilst NCJWA NSW is not the only organisation in our community to have reached its 100th anniversary - it...

Israel’s new government must not abandon Jerusalem

The transfer of the Jerusalem Affairs Ministry to a Haredi party (UTJ) constitutes the abandonment of Jerusalem to non-Zionist...

Khamenei blames hijab riots on ‘Zionist regime’ and US

The recent riots in Iran in response to the killing of Mahsa Amini are “plots by the US and...

David Spitzer, AKA ‘Yigal’, one of the last Lehi fighters, passes at 92

David Spitzer witnessed it all – he was a member of the Lehi underground and fought the British occupation...

UNHCR’s blacklist, the ICC and Zionism as racism – these are the 2021 antisemitism trends

The focus on Zionism as a supposedly racist and exclusionary political ideology will intensify, the UNHCR’s blacklist is expected to return and the ICC will continue its campaign against Israel, these as the anti-Israel and antisemitic trends for 2021 according to the International Legal Forum (ILF).

Zionism

Ron Weiser: It’s a difficult time for pollsters.

WJC Mission highlight – Dr Einat Wilf on Zionism

The World Jewish Congress (WJC) held a ‘Special Mission Celebrating 70 Years of Israel’, in Jerusalem over 18-19 March 2018. The delegation consisted of 70 Jewish leaders from 40 countries. The Executive Council of Australian Jewry, an affiliate of the WJC, was represented by me...writes Julie Nathan.