Washington backs truce Samer Al-Atrush – Hugh Tomlinson The US is growing increasingly frustrated with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s demand for “total victory” in the war in Gaza, saying Hamas will never be entirely eliminated. US security officials have warned that Israel would never completely destroy the terrorist group and that Israeli forces have […]
Read MorePreference system no help to ‘divisive’ Muslim candidates
What’s missing from some of the discussions about the likely electoral impact of a Muslim party or a Muslim Vote political movement turns on a full understanding of preferential voting in the Australian federal voting system. The Australian electoral system is unusual in two circumstances. First, voting is compulsory – even if Australians vote out […]
Read MoreHOW NEW YORK TIMES SPRUNG AN ANTI-SEMITIC LEAK
Early this year, the contents of a WhatsApp group for Jewish creative professionals and academics, set up in Australia after the October 7 attacks in Israel, leaked and fell into the hands of pro-Palestinian activists. The activists posted snippets on social media, along with the names, photos and social media page links of many of […]
Read MoreNEW FRONT OPENS ON GAZAN ARRIVALS ISSUE
Anthony Albanese is in trouble again. Big trouble. And guess what, it’s the same old debilitating and toxic topics for Labor of immigration, visas, social division, national security and weaponisation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. It’s the same old haunting presence of former immigration minister Andrew Giles that was meant to be banished during the winter […]
Read MoreGREENS’ DIVISIVE RHETORIC IS FUELLING TERROR RISK, SAYS PM
Anthony Albanese has accused the Greens of fuelling the community divisions that have prompted the government to raise the terrorism threat level from “possible” to “probable”, saying the party’s support for long-running protests outside MPs’ offices is undermining social cohesion. The Prime Minister attacked the hard-left party after the nation’s domestic spy chief warned on […]
Read MorePayman votes with Greens, risking expulsion
Labor senator Fatima Payman has become the party’s first member to cross the floor in decades after she voted with the Greens to recognise Palestinian statehood in a vote yesterday. The federal government moved quickly to quell expectations the WA senator would be expelled from Labor, despite the fact MPs have previously been thrown out […]
Read MoreHAMAS LOSING SUPPORT OF GAZANS
Gaza’s war-weary population is growing increasingly frustrated with the fruitless cycles of ceasefire talks, as a new poll of Palestinians shows support for Hamas dwindling in the enclave. Months of diplomacy between Israel, Hamas and mediators from the US, Egypt and Qatar have failed to produce agreement even on the outline of a deal that […]
Read MoreGREENS, ALP CONFRONT ‘GAZA WAR EFFECT’ IN KEY SEAT
The war in Gaza is creating deep electoral uncertainty in the heavily Jewish inner-Melbourne seat of Macnamara as sections of the electorate rebel against the Greens’ hardline position on Palestine, while some Israel supporters are lukewarm about Labor’s response to the crisis. Strategists from the major parties are struggling to read the Labor-held seat after […]
Read MoreForget legal advice, VCs need moral courage
The Gaza solidarity encampments at Australian universities reveal two things that may have slipped many people’s attention. First, free speech laws in this country are a bugger’s muddle. Second, too many vice-chancellors, paid more than $1m to lead our most esteemed universities, behave like low-level bureaucrats. While some university chancellors, led by Jennifer Westacott, are […]
Read MoreAlbanese must speak up for Israel’s right to exist
It is well past time for Anthony Albanese to speak up loud and long on what he knows to be true: an evil tide of anti-Semitism is rising in Australia – not reasoned opposition to Israel’s campaign against the Hamas terrorist organisation but outright hatred of Jews for no reason other than they are Jews. […]
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