Seventy-five years ago this week, the United Nations General Assembly voted by 33 votes in favour, 13 against and with 10 abstentions, to partition the land between the Mediterranean Sea and Jordan River into two states, Jewish and Arab. We know the history of what happened next; the State of Israel was subsequently declared in…
By nearly all accounts, Ahmad Abu Murkhiyeh was easy to like. The gay Palestinian man living in Israel was possessed of a soft-spoken intelligence that he applied for the benefit of others. But back in his native Hebron, hatred lurked. Years of abuse from his family and general intolerance in Palestinian society had led him…
Congress deplores the continuing occupation of Palestine by Israel, and re-affirms the policy adopted at the 4th ITUC World Congress in Copenhagen in favour of a two-state solution in line with the relevant UN Security Council resolutions.
Explaining the ambivalence of contemporary progressives on antisemitism: Some learnings from Sima Arnold’s From Occupation to Occupy: Antisemitism and the contemporary American Left, Indiana University Press, 2022 by Professor Philip Mendes Every few months now, Australian student unions seem to pass extreme pro-BDS resolutions: https://anuobserver.org/2022/08/04/tired-of-being-interrogated-the-jewish-experience-on-campus-amidst-israel-palestine-debate/ The resolutions use highly inflammatory language, accusing Israel of perpetrating…
Thank you, Yossi, and can I say how glad I am to be here in Melbourne as a guest of the Zionist Federation of Australia to address you, the leaders of the Australian Jewish community, as part of your first biennial conference since the pandemic. I acknowledge Israeli Ambassador, Amir Maimon, Zionist Federation of Australia…
The Labor party on Saturday held an annual rally to mark the assassination of former prime minister and party leader Yitzhak Rabin at Jerusalem’s Zion Square, in an event held three days before national elections. During the event — which wasn’t attended by Rabin’s family members — current Labor leader Merav Michaeli slammed her election…
Labor party chief Merav Michaeli on Thursday accused opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu of being complicit in the assassination of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. Speaking at a conference organized by the Yisrael Hayom newspaper ahead of Saturday night’s memorial ceremony marking 27 years since the 1995 assassination, Michaeli also singled out Religious Zionism-Otzma Yehudit’s MK…
Letters on ballot slip: אמת What the party is pitching: Nearly two years after rehabilitating the erstwhile ruling party, whose support dwindled drastically of late, into a government partner, Labor leader Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli has promised to be a home for Israelis interested in “equality, social justice, and peace.” In addition to working toward…
Mr KHALIL (Wills) (16:49): Notwithstanding the last speaker, the previous speakers in the opposition have not been able to acknowledge, or won’t admit to, three things about this MPI. No. 1: they won’t acknowledge that the government’s policy is actually a reaffirmation of the longstanding bipartisan policy of successive Australian governments that has been in…
Mr BURNS (Macnamara) (16:39): I’ll begin my remarks by talking about my grandfather, who was in Israel at its early inception in 1948 and then lived on a kibbutz with my grandmother in the 1950s. They were one of the first generations of people who were trying to turn a barren desert into a country.…