Foreign Ministers’ Statement on Legislation Against UNRWA Under Consideration by the Israeli Knesset 27 October 2024
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Party I love dumps Enlightenment values, principles, The Australian, 12 October 2024
I’m a life member of the Labor Party and the party has been a big…
Motion moved in the Australian Parliament by the Hon. Anthony Albanese MHR, Prime Minister of Australia, 8 October 2024
That the House of Representatives: (1) reiterates its unequivocal condemnation of Hamas’ terror attacks on…
National Statement to the United Nations General Assembly
Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Hon Penny Wong, New York, 28 September 2024 President,…
Top university rejects antisemitism definition over academic freedom, The Age (Angus Thompson), 10 July 2024
The Australian National University has refused to adopt a contentious definition of antisemitism used by…
Special envoy to combat Antisemitism, 9 July 2024
There is no place for racism, prejudice or hate in Australia. That’s why the Albanese…
Labor MP Josh Burns upset at Gaza protesters’ attack on his St Kilda electoral office, The Age, 19 June 2024
Just after 3.20am on Wednesday, six people wearing black masks turned up outside my electorate…
Division over ACTU policy on Israel- Gaza, Exclusive by David Marin-Guzman, Australian Financial Review, 11 June 2024
A union leader has complained that ACTU officials quashed debate over Gaza by waving through…
The motion that union leaders prevented from being debated at the Congress of the Australian Council of Trade Unions held in June 2024
Support for a just and lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians based on the principle…
MP’s offices vandalised: “free Gaza”, “glory to the martyrs” and “free Palestine”
Electorate office of Hon Mark Dreyfus QC MHR, 31 May 2024 Electorate office of the…
Letter by Jeff Lapidos, Secretary, Australian Services Union (Tax Officers Branch) to the President and Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, 23 April 2024
Dear Sally and Michelle I am writing to you in my capacity as a delegate…
Statement by the Australian Council of Trade Unions on Gaza, 22 April 2024
The Australian Union movement is a movement of peace and respect for all races and…
Spare us the spin, PM: it’s time to call out religious extremism, Cameron Milner, The Australian, 17 April 2024
CAMERON MILNER In February, ASIO boss Mike Burgess warned that our greatest domestic security threat…
Albanese Labor reveals its true feelings on Israel, Cameron Milner, Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch) State Secretary (2000-2004), The Australian, 13 April 2024
The deaths of Galit Carbone and Zomi Frankcom are without doubt genuine tragedies. Carbone was an innocent civilian slaughtered in…
How did the Australian Jewish Left respond to the first wave of pro-Palestinian activism from 1967-75? By Professor Philip Mendes, November 2023
How did the Australian Jewish Left respond to the first wave of pro-Palestinian activism from…
Comment by Rabbi James Kennard, 6 November 2023
It’s usually improper for a school principal to disclose their political leanings, but in my…
Statement by former Australian Prime Minister’s, 30 October 2023
We, as former Prime Ministers of Australia, acknowledge the success of our multicultural nation, which…
Penny Wong raises ‘alarming’ democratic trends with Israel | SBS News, 1 August 2023
Foreign Minister Penny Wong says she has raised “alarming trends” in Israel’s democracy with its…
Tweet by Senator Hon. Penny Wong, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, 24 April 2023
As Israel prepares to celebrate 75 years since its foundation, Australia reaffirms our close and…
Evatt and the Partition Plan, The Australian Jewish News (Josh Burns), 24 November 2022
On November 29, 1947 the United Nations General Assembly voted, by 33 votes to 13,…
‘Doc’ Evatt: An enduring legacy, The Australian Jewish News, 24 November 2022
Seventy-five years ago this week, the United Nations General Assembly voted by 33 votes in…
Contemporary progressives on antisemitism, Philip Mendes, Times of Israel, 17 November 2022
Explaining the ambivalence of contemporary progressives on antisemitism: Some learnings from Sima Arnold’s From Occupation…
Address by Hon. Tim Watts MHR, Australian Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs to the Zionist Federation of Australia Biennial Conference, Melbourne, 30 October 2022
Thank you, Yossi, and can I say how glad I am to be here in…
At Rabin rally in Jerusalem, Labor chief rips Netanyahu, Ben Gvir over 1995 protest, The Times of Israel, 29 October 2022
The Labor party on Saturday held an annual rally to mark the assassination of former…
Labor chief Michaeli: Rabin was assassinated with Netanyahu’s cooperation, The Times of Israel, 27 October 2022
Labor party chief Merav Michaeli on Thursday accused opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu of being complicit…
Fifth time’s a charm? The Times of Israel’s guide to the 39 parties vying for the vote, again – The Labor Party, 26 October 2022
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Israeli Labor Party campaign policy: An end to conflict management, a return to taking the initiative on foreign policy: the Labor Party presents its diplomatic platform in the spirit of the late Yitzhak Rabin, 23 October 2022
The Labor Party presented this evening, Sunday 23 October, its diplomatic plan to separate from…
Pursuit of a peaceful solution should be above politics, Senator Hon. Penny Wong, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, The Australian Jewish News, 20 October 2022
‘Reasonable people can disagree, as many readers will disagree with me. But I will always…
Media Release, Josh Burns MHR, 19 October 2022
In my lifetime, I dream of seeing peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. With…
Reversal of recognition of West Jerusalem, Senator Hon. Penny Wong, Minister for Foreign Affairs, 18 October 2022
Today the Government has reaffirmed Australia’s previous and longstanding position that Jerusalem is a final…
Trade unions and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, Professor Philip Mendes, The Times of Israel, 17 October 2022
What happens when ideological zealots infiltrate trade unions to attack academic freedom? A case study…
Construction workers in Israel represented at BWI Congress, Histadrut Global, 13 October 2022
Moyal elected as a member of the World Council of BWI. The Building and Wood…
National Tertiary Education Union National Council resolution supporting boycotts, disinvestment and sanctions, October 2022
The NTEU recognises and builds upon the history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and…
1967 vs 1948: why the 2000 Camp David Summit failed, Philip Mendes, 11 October 2022
The root of the failure, writes former foreign minister Shlomo Ben-Ami, was that Israel tried…
Labor report: Israelis are working too much at the expense of free time,The Jerusalem Post, 9 October 2022
A new report from the Arlozorov Forum has revealed that 43% of Israelis regularly work…
UNRWA Ministerial Working Meeting, Ministerial statement, Senator Hon. Penny Wong, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, 23 September 2022
Australia is a long-term supporter of UNRWA. Its work is vital. Until there is a…
There’s a simple way to make universities safe places for Jewish students: Listen to them, Alissa Foster, Vice-President, Australasian Union of Jewish Students, ABC Religion & Ethics, 19 August 2022
In April 2022, the University of Melbourne Student Union (UMSU) passed a motion denouncing Zionism…
Leader of the Labor Party Minister Merav Michaeli’s speech after being re-elected as party leader, 18 July 2022
Leader of the Labor Party Minister Merav Michaeli spoke this evening, Monday 18 July, after…
What is a “Semite” anyway? – John Safran, ABC Religion & Ethics, 13 July 2022
Following other states, South Australia has just adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of…
Arabs sharing government power with Jews in Israel is the new normal. It works, and there is no turning back, Ron Gerlitz, Fathom Journal, 1 June 2022
Jewish-Arab political partnership isn’t doing so well in June 2022. But by and large we…
A crude hatchet job on the Australian Labor Party, Philip Mendes, The Times of Israel, 5 May 2022
A crude hatchet job on the Australian Labor Party is not in the best interests…
Rod Spence MLA, Minister for Multicultural Affaires sends a Pesach greeting to the Jewish community in Melbourne, 14 April 2022
Passover is a sacred time for Jewish communities all over the world, offering an opportunity…
Labor senator Susan Lines’s Israel slur prompts rebuke, The Australian (Shari Markson), 14 February 2022
Labor’s deputy president in the Senate has attacked Israel for the “crime of apartheid” in…
Amnesty tries to distort my Arab identity and dismantle Israel, Yoseph Haddad, The Jerusalem Post, 2 February 2022
Palestinians live under the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank or under the control of…
Labor silent on Sydney Festival anti-Israel boycott, The Australian (Nicholas Jensen), 21 January 2022
Labor leader Anthony Albanese and opposition arts spokesman Tony Burke have refused to take a…
‘Can’t You See He’s Fooled You All?’: An Open Letter to Peter Gabriel et al explaining why Israel is not a ‘Settler Colonial’ society, Fathom Journal
Dear Peter Gabriel, As a teenager in a cold and grey North Shields in the…
‘Can’t You See He’s Fooled You All?’: An Open Letter to Peter Gabriel et al explaining why Israel is not a ‘Settler Colonial’ society, Professor Alan Johnson, Fathom magazine, November 2021
100 artists including Ken Loach, Mark Rylance and Susan Sarandon have signed an open letter…
Unions are the answer to COVID unemployment and work disputes – opinion, Peter Lerner, 6 October 2021
Worker power is essential to building our economy from the COVID-19 crisis better than before…
David Renton, ‘Labour’s Antisemitism crisis: What the Left got wrong and how to learn from it’, Routledge, 2022 – reflection by Philip Mendes, September 2021
Firstly, let me say this is not a conventional book review. It is more so…
NTEU wins right to intellectual freedom in Tim Anderson appeal, Green Left, 4 September 2021
A Federal Court decision handed down on August 31 confirmed that University of Sydney staff have a…
University of Sydney lecturer Tim Anderson backed by court in swastika dismissal case, The Sydney Morning Herald, 31 August 2021
A controversial University of Sydney lecturer who was sacked after superimposing a swastika on an…
Albanese slams ‘counterproductive’ Labor motion calling for boycott of Israel, The Age, 15 July 2021
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has slammed a Labor motion backed by former NSW premier Bob…
By calling out anti-Semitism on the Left, Albanese has created room for himself, Sydney Morning Herald, 15 July 2021
Anthony Albanese has shown he is no Jeremy Corbyn. For those who have been paying…
Sing me a ditty about Palestine | Adam Slonim | The Spectator Australia, 16 June 2021
There is something profoundly disturbing and morally challenging in the way many view the Israel-Palestine…
Israel-Palestine conflict: Labor’s factional havoc over land international affair, The Age (Rob Harris), 11 June 2021
It was a little-seen social media post that sent a major wave of panic through…
Chris Minns a ‘strong friend to Jewish community’ – The Australian Jewish News (Gareth Narunsky), 10 June 2021
Chris Minns, 41, was elected leader of the Labor Party unopposed last Friday following the…
Federal ALP slams Qld motion, The Australian Jewish News, 10 June 2021
Macnamara MP Josh Burns said the motion was “disappointing and blatantly one-sided”, but insisted, “it…
Bob Carr rejects anti-Semitism inside ALP, The Australian (Greg Brown), 10 June 2021
Mr Carr, an influential supporter of Palestine in the NSW Right, said there was nothing…
Labor attack on Israel is just wrong, says Penny Wong, The Australian, 9 June 2021
Penny Wong says viewing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from one perspective ‘will not advance the cause…
‘The Monash Soviet’ and Israel: A case study of how the Australian campus far left lost its way after the 1967 Six-Day War, Professor Philip Mendes, Fathom Journal, June 2021
For a half century, for good and for ill, Western universities have been incubating world…
Resolution of the Australian Labor Party Queensland Branch Conference, 6 June 2021
This State Conference notes and congratulates the Federal ALP for re-affirming the 2018 National Conference…
Statement by Hon. James Merlino MLA, Acting Premier, Parliament of Victoria, 25 May 2021
Mr Merlino (Monbulk—Minister for Education, Minister for Mental Health) (12:04): (By leave) In recent weeks…
Address by Dr Marjorie O’Neill MLA to the rally in solidarity with Israel, Sydney, 23 May 2021
I would like to start by thanking the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies for providing…
Message of solidarity from Victoria’s Acting Premier, Hon. James Merlino MLA delivered by Paul Hamer MLA at rally in support of Israel, Caulfield
I am personally devastated at the violence and terror that has taken place above the…
Resolutions of the Australian Labor Party Caulfield Branch and Caulfield South Branch on the outcome of the ALP National Conference
The Australian Labor Party (Caulfield / Caulfield South Branch) notes the amendment of the National…
Moral In-Equivalence: Adam Slonim, AILD National Co-Convener, 14 May 2021
Comment after comment on social media from progressive voices express support for the Palestinians during…
Violence in Israel, Gaza and Jerusalem: Statement by Senator Hon. Penny Wong, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, 13 May 2021
Labor is deeply concerned about the violence in Israel, Gaza and Jerusalem in recent days.…
Some Background to Events in Jerusalem, Dr Adam Carr
In 1875 some pious Jews bought some land in a semi-rural area just north of…
The end of a Bi-National Jewish and Palestinian State, Adam Slonim, AILD National Co-Convenor
With the burning of Synagogues by Arab youth in the mixed Israeli Jewish-Arab city of…
Bob Carr launches his latest anti-Israel campaign focused on generating motions for the ALP New South Wales Branch Conference set for October 2021
State Conference motions – Apartheid, Settlement Expansion, Human Rights To all supporters of Palestine in…
Bob Carr out of control, The Australian Jewish News, 6 May 2021 – note 2021
FORMER NSW Premier Bob Carr has sent an incendiary email to Labor members endorsing Human Rights…
My first month with the Sabras – article by His Excellency Mohamed al Khama, Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Israel
Opinion: In a Ynet exclusive, Mohamed al Khaja, the UAE’s first envoy to Israel, celebrates…
Statement by Hon. Ros Spence MLA, Minister for Multicultural Affairs on Holocaust Remembrance Day, 7 April 2021
Today is Yom Hashoah, a day to remember the victims, survivors and heroes of the…
Netanyahu source of Israel’s dysfunction, Merav Michaeli tells CNN – The Jerusalem Post
The Labor Party leader took pride in the fact that under her leadership, Labor became…
Indigenous cultural artifacts returned to Australia from Israel Museum | The Times of Israel
A collection of more than 1,800 stone artifacts has been returned to Australia from the…
25th Anniversary of the Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, Resolution of the Parliament of Australia, December 2020
That this House: (1) notes that: (a) 4 November 2020 marks 25 years since Israeli…
Why the UAE is looking to Israel to secure its food supplies
Myriad deals between the two countries run gamut from health-tech to diamonds, but food-tech and…
Meet with Israel Labor MK opposing her own party to try to salvage its future
In this week’s Behind the Headlines discussion, Member of Knesset Merav Michaeli will discuss the…
Challenging my portrayal in The Powerbroker – The Australian Jewish News
Kevin Rudd: ‘Michael Gawenda is free to criticise me for things I’ve said and done,…
Why the ICC Prosecutor Is Wrong on Oslo – The Washington Institute for Near East Policy – Ambassador Dennis Ross
By making what appears to be a politically motivated case, the prosecutor’s office runs the…
Why there is no credible alternative to IHRA definition of antisemitism
Proponents of boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel typically react with indignation when their…
COVID-19 Report
Histadrut and Government of Israel to sign a collective agreement that will regulate the employment…
Why women in the Middle East find little to celebrate on March 8
Despite global fears of the spread of the coronavirus, women around the world took to the…
How an anti-Semitic staple about Jewish power captured the left – The Forward
In two weeks, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee will host its annual confab, the…
Israeli innovators brainstorm solutions for Australia bushfires – Naama Barak – ISRAEL21c
The bushfires raging through Australia could soon receive aid from Israel in the most Israeli…
The Palestinian Dilemma by Tony Blair – Project Syndicate
The peace plan proposed by the United States has been praised and damned in line…
Both Israelis and Palestinians need a reality check on the peace process – Rabbi Yossi Klein Halevi – The Globe and Mail
Yossi Klein Halevi is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He…
This must never happen again, says Saudi cleric as Muslim group tours Auschwitz | The Times of Israel
OSWIECIM, Poland — The head of the Muslim World League, Mohammed al-Issa, along with an…
Recognising Jerusalem, two years on | The Spectator Australia
It was in the first week of December 2017, almost a year to the day…
The Left Hates Israel More Than It Loves Palestine
For most of the left, both in Europe and the United States, support for the…
Antisemitism is the ‘canary in the coalmine of global hatred’, UN expert warns – The Jewish Chronicle
A leading United Nations expert has said antisemitism is “toxic to democracy” as he reported…
Labor in Queensland adopts another unbalanced position on Israel, one-sided and riddled with errors and distortions
Preamble: In view of the following: – It is now 102 years since the British…
Workplace deaths have risen by 30 percent in the first half of this year – Israel News – Haaretz.com, 1 July 2019
In the first six months of 2019 alone, 43 were killed in workplace accidents –…
Only 1 in 4 serious worksite incidents gets a criminal probe | The Times of Israel, 13 June 2019
Police have not opened criminal investigations in 75 percent of job site accidents from 2016…
Why Israel’s Generals Are Taking on Netanyahu – Foreign Policy (2 July 2019)
Almost all of them believe the prime minister is destroying Israel’s democratic values and sacrificing…
Albo will be a strong friend of our community
OUR democracy is a thing of beauty. But also, occasionally, heartbreak, writes Josh Burns. And…
Palestinian workers might finally have labor courts to settle their cases
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Hon JULIA GILLARD Remarks To The Emirates Centre For Strategic Studies and Research
It is a pleasure and an honour to be invited to address The Emirates Centre…
Why the left keeps failing in the pro-Likud periphery, home to 25% of Israelis
During a visit to the northern town of Kiryat Shmona to inaugurate a new emergency…
Reflections on the passing of Bob Hawke
ACCORDING to his biographer Blanche d’Alpuget, who subsequently became his wife, for Bob Hawke: “Israel…
How the BDS movement is poisoning academic discourse: a case study of Henry Maitles and Critical and Radical Social Work, by Philip Mendes, Fathom, February 2019
The academic Left, influenced by the Boycott, Divestment and Sections (BDS) movement, is abandoning core…
Learning the lessons of Australia’s recognition of the State of Israel, seventy years on – Peter Wertheim AM – Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Today, 29 January 2019, marks the 70th anniversary of an obscure and long-forgotten event in…
Grounded Realities for Australian Labor – Adam Slonim, Times of Israel
“Social democratic parties have a problem selling opportunity and hope, while conservatives easily sell fear…
It Takes Two Sides To Create Lasting Peace, MK Michal Biran, Sydney Morning Herald, 27 July 2017
Last month I went on a mission to Australia to develop and deepen the ongoing…
AILD Innovation Mission 2016
We would like to extend you an invitation to join the AILD Labor Innovation Mission…
Statement In Response To The Australian
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Beattie blasts ALP’s ‘Stalinist’ approach to Israel
Former Queensland premier Peter Beattie says the Labor Party risks becoming politically irrelevant over its…
Israel’s friends in WA, Qld Labor
WESTERN Australia Labor will consider a motion condemning the wave of stabbing attacks against Israeli…
Qld Labor: Balanced one day, biased the next – The Australian Jewish News, 3 September 2015
FORMER Queensland Premier Peter Beattie has called for even-handedness in the debate on Israel and…
UK Labour’s Catastrophic Israel Stance
The UK Jewish Community has had an historically out-sized influence on many aspects of British…
Israel’s Labor Party Sends Letter Of Thanks
On the 20th of April 2015, Secretary General MK Hilik Bar and Chairperson of Israel’s…
AILD BACKGROUNDER: The 2015 Israel Election
It certainly surprised many in Israel and the global commentariat that current Israeli Prime Minister…
Peter Baldwin Letter ‘The Gaza conflict 2014′
Peter Baldwin was the ALP member for the House of Representatives seat of Sydney between…
Why I Could Not Support Bob Carr’s Middle East Resolution by Michael Easson
At the NSW Labor Conference I spoke in opposition to a motion moved by Bob…
Labor Must Not Turn Its Back on Israel
Michael Easson, Labor stalwart and former Secretary of Unions NSW argues why the ALP in NSW…
Condemnation Of Israel Prevents Peace
The international response to Israel’s defensive actions against terrorism is disturbingly familiar, and it is…
Message from the Leader of the Oppostion
I have stood at the crest of Sderot, I have looked across the border –…
Interview with The Hon Daniel Andrews MP
Victorian Opposition Leader and Leader of the Victorian Labor Party, Daniel Andrews MLA, recently spoke…
Remarks of the Hon Julia Gillard 27th Prime Minister of Australia Receipt of the Jerusalem Prize
I am deeply honoured to accept the Jerusalem Prize tonight and proud to do so…
AILD’s Michael Borowick met with Labour Party leader’s
During his recent visit to Israel, AILD’s Michael Borowick met with Labour Party leader Shelley…
The Visit to Israel by Victorian State Labor MPs
At a function celebrating the return of 9 Victorian ALP State Parliamentarians from a recent…
Anti-Israel boycott would hurt the Palestinians the poor and in the end….peace
By Tim Harcourt* The targeting of Israel via the boycotts of goods and people with…