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We need to heed these warnings immediately: Joel Burnie on News24
Sep 22, 2026 · original
https://aijac.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/News24-Steve-Price-interview-with-Joel-Burnie-19-9-26-hi-res.mp4 AIJAC Executive Manager Joel Burnie spoke with Steve Price about the Royal Commission, antisemitism in Australia and ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess’ recent warning about the potential that Iran could target Jewish Australians. The post We need to heed these warnings immediately: Joel Burnie on News24 appeared first on AIJAC .
Essay: How did it come to this?
Sep 15, 2026 · original
Antisemitism in Australia Only a few months have passed since the Bondi massacre. The (third) anniversary of October 7 is fast approaching. Now, one question hangs over all of us: how have we come to this? That question has two parts. Why did antisemitic hatred erupt with such speed and ferocity? And why, once unleashed, did it spread so widely and persist for so long? To begin answering the first question, I want to go back more than a century, to the Dreyfus Affair. In late 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army, was convicted of spying for Germany and condemned to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island, the notorious penal colony off French Guiana. Captain Alfred Dreyfus: Subjected to false accusations, which ignited a storm of antisemitism (Image: Wikimedia Commons) Dreyfus was innocent. By 1896, Lieutenant-Colonel Georges Picquart, the head of French military
Biblio File: Out of Iran
Sep 15, 2026 · original
Defiance, disillusion and despair Stolen Revolution: Betrayal and Hope in Modern Iran Yeganeh Torbati & Bozorgmehr Sharafedin Doubleday, 2026, 496 pp. $39.95 [purchase here ] Yeganeh Torbati and Bozorgmehr Sharafedin’s Stolen Revolution: Betrayal and Hope in Modern Iran is a tour de force of detail. Built over nearly five years of reporting, interviews with more than 130 people, court documents and dozens of other corroborating sources, the book weaves together six intertwined character arcs to create an overarching narrative of defiance, disillusionment and despair. What stands out is the fear, degradation, physical and sexual violence, staggering corruption, vicious misogyny and hypocrisy on which the totalitarian, dystopian Islamic Republic of Iran runs, alongside the pettier and more parochial indignities and frustrations. These eventually turned even founding disciples of the regime
Keeping Faith: The Path of Abraham
Sep 15, 2026 · original
A well-known Irish blessing evocatively calls on the road ahead to be filled with promise and hope: May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face; the rains fall soft upon your fields . Yet life’s paths are rarely smooth. They are often jagged and winding, and the road that rises to meet us may conceal potholes and dangerous bends. This has especially been the experience of Australian Jewry over the past three years, and especially since Bondi. The warm sunshine of Bondi Beach has exposed a dark and sinister hatred towards us, bringing fear, uncertainty, exclusion and a loss of hope in the “Lucky Country”. This made the three-week interfaith journey I recently completed all the more extraordinary. The “1000 Abrahamic Circles” initiative is the brainchild of Dr Dino Patti Djalal, the charismatic former Indonesian ambassador to
Palestinian views on violence
Sep 15, 2026 · original
The polling dissected Palestinian violence was a central reason for the collapse of both the Oslo peace process and Israeli trust in Palestinian intentions. More Israelis died in terrorist attacks during the Oslo period’s seven years than in any previous seven-year period. AIJAC has been monitoring polling by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research since 2014. In previous Review articles and other AIJAC publications, we’ve looked at the gaps between the assumptions of Western policies and the realities of Palestinian public opinion, in terms of the promised Palestinian reforms on which Australia predicated recognition of the so-called ‘State of Palestine’, US President Donald Trump’s Gaza plan and, more specifically, Phase II of that plan . Now, we’re taking a deep dive into Palestinian views on violence. Across dozens of questions, Palestinians have been asked whether they
Media Matters: ABC’s accountability problems exposed at Royal Commission
Sep 15, 2026 · original
The Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion has been accused by some of failing to probe the ABC deeply enough over whether its coverage might have contributed to an environment in which antisemitism surged following Hamas’ October 7 massacre. But royal commissions are not television courtroom dramas. Sometimes the most revealing evidence is inadvertent. That was true when ABC Editorial Director Gavin Fang and Fiona Cameron – head of the ABC’s self-described “independent” Ombudsman’s Office – testified in July. The ABC’s 50-page written submission described “comprehensive and rigorous editorial policies,” content meeting “the highest editorial standards” and, pointedly, “a robust and best practice complaints process.” But as its witnesses explained how those safeguards actually operated, the picture unravelled. No one is accusing the ABC of routinely producing overtly antise
OnePath to hate
Sep 15, 2026 · original
“Values-based” extremism OnePath Network ( onepathnetwork.com ) is an influential Australian Islamic-themed video production studio and media outlet headquartered in Sydney. It publishes videos, articles, podcasts, and short films, distributing content via its website , YouTube , Facebook , Instagram , X (Twitter), and TikTok . The channel has been endorsed by Sheikh Ibrahim Abu Mohamed, one of the two current rival Grand Muftis of Australia. Started in 2014, by 2023 OnePath Network had surpassed one million YouTube subscribers and claimed over 110 million cumulative views across digital platforms in more than 200 countries, making it one of the most widely distributed English-language Islamic media organisations in the world. Yet on numerous issues, its content can be extreme. And when it comes to Jews and to Israel, OnePath content is often openly hateful, including recycling antisemit
Washington Heights: The Trump Administration’s UN half-measures
Sep 15, 2026 · original
Perceptions of the United Nations have evolved in recent years. There has always been a divide between conservatives and liberals, the latter generally more favourable to supranational organisations that purport to do good things, and the former generally more sceptical of overstaffed bureaucracies run by unaccountable international civil servants. The asterisk that has always followed such characterisations notes that for people who are pro-Israel, the United Nations has rarely been a friendly place. But more on that later. US budget numbers bear out the stereotypes: In the last year of the Democratic Biden Administration, the United States provided the United Nations, per my colleague Brett Schaefer’s testimony before the US Congress, “30.5% of government contributions (US$14.3 billion [A$20 billion]). This is equivalent to the combined contributions of 183 other nations and 3 times th
Europa Europa: Janus, Andy Burnham and the Jews
Sep 15, 2026 · original
“Lord Attlee, the former Clement Attlee, leader of the Labour Party between 1936 and 1951 and Prime Minister from 1945 to 1951, died here last night, aged 84. Attlee’s leadership of the government covered the years just prior to and after the establishment of the modern State of Israel. It was under his premiership that the late Ernest Bevin, as Secretary for Foreign Affairs, made determined attempts to liquidate the Jewish national home, instituted a drive against the Palestinian Jewish settlement’s defense organisation, the Haganah, arrested leaders of the Jewish Agency and returned Jewish concentration camp survivors to Germany. Attlee not only condoned but actively supported all those moves.” This obituary from October 1967 appeared at the very bottom of a bulletin from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s London Correspondent. Acerbic, yes, even more so given the lead story was an appeal
The Interview: A better place, despite everything
Sep 15, 2026 · original
An interview with Ambassador Mark Regev A mbassador Mark Regev is the Chair of the Abba Eban Institute for Diplomacy and Foreign Relations at Reichman University in Herzliya. Previously, he served as the Israeli Prime Minister’s Senior Adviser for Foreign Affairs and International Communications from 2020 to 2021, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2020 and as the Israeli Prime Minister’s Adviser and International Spokesperson from 2007 to 2016. He was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia. He visited Australia and New Zealand as a guest of AIJAC in late August and early September, and spoke to AIJAC’s Joel Burnie during his visit. Joel Burnie: Nearly three years to the anniversary of October 7th. A lot of things have happened since then in Israel and regionally as well… With the military campaigns on the multiple fronts winding down, coming to an end, how do you as
AIR New Zealand: Pro-Palestinian activism casts shadow over NZ election
Sep 15, 2026 · original
New Zealand has an election looming, set for November 7, and it looks set to be the closest in many years. But for many in the Jewish community, the spectre of extremist pro-Palestinian activism is already hanging over it. Campaigning is now ramping up, and politicians are out selling their parties and policies to the public. That’s par for the course. But what is unusual – particularly for New Zealand where foreign policy issues are rarely a feature of elections – is the emergence of a party devoted to the “Free Palestine” cause. The Palestine Free from the River to the Sea Party is running on a platform focused on “Palestinian liberation” and dismantling Israel. It has no policies at all relating to New Zealand’s domestic concerns. There has been concerted opposition to the party. More than 200 submissions opposing it were submitted during the public consultation period. Solicitor Ian
Asia Watch: Drawing the line at Israel – even when business is at stake
Sep 15, 2026 · original
Malaysia’s confrontation with Israel has moved from the realm of foreign policy into the country’s investment and technology ambitions, after Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim ordered the immediate deportation of Israeli nationals and a controversial technology commune in southern Malaysia subsequently lost its licence to operate. The episode surrounding the Network School has become a revealing test of how far Malaysia is prepared to go in enforcing its long-standing refusal to recognise Israel – and how much economic and diplomatic pressure it is willing to absorb in doing so. Anwar’s position was unequivocal. “If we find any Israeli, we will deport them immediately because we do not recognise Israel,” he said in July. On another occasion, responding to criticism from US lawmakers, Anwar said threats would not change Malaysia’s policy: “That will not deter us. They may issue threats, but I

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