Ex-Lib needs salary alms to survive in the Holy Land
One-time Lib rising star Tim Smith’s car-crash career has taken him to Israel as a political adviser, where apparently he’s so poorly paid he has people at home seeking top-up ‘donations’.
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Bandt, Greens accused of failing to stop incitement of Jewish hate
Adam Bandt and the Greens have been accused of potentially breaching racial and religious tolerance laws over anti-Israel protests.
Jewish Australians ‘leading global battle against hate’
One of Israel’s top voices to the UN has said Australia’s Jewish community is at the ‘forefront’ of a global fight against anti-Semitism.
Netanyahu vows to eliminate trade deficit with US
After meeting Donald Trump at the White House, the Israeli Prime Minister said his country could serve as a model on tariffs for other countries.
Jewish leader’s backflip on IVO
Controversial pro-Palestinian Jewish advocate Sarah Schwartz has requested police to drop an extraordinary intervention order they lodged on her behalf against Israel advocate Zara Cooper.
New documents show Iran complicit in Oct 7 massacre: Israel
Despite its denials that it knew about Hamas’s attack on Israel, Tehran helped fund it to the tune of US$500m, Israel’s Defence Minister claims.
In southern Syria, Israel is the power that matters
Israel’s new security strategy in southern Syria has produced a land grab and animosity along the border as troops move out of the buffer zone and closer to Damascus
A disaster at home and abroad
Trump’s tariffs could have a big impact on the strategic balance.
Wong can’t have it both ways on Gazan resistance
If the Foreign Minister is serious about wanting to remove Hamas from Gaza, she should be supporting Israel’s current efforts to achieve this objective.
Israel defends killing of medics
A deadly incident with Israeli soldiers sparks an investigation and calls for justice. Troops had fired on Palestinian emergency vehicles, killing 14 or 15 medics.
‘Always stand by Israel’: Liberal Wentworth candidate’s pitch to Jewish voters
Liberal candidate for Wentworth Ro Knox has made a pledge to the Jewish community that she “will always stand by Israel”, taking aim at Wentworth MP Allegra Spender.
Phone call led aid groups to paramedics buried in a Gaza grave
A deadly incident with Israeli soldiers sparks an investigation and calls for justice.
Go to bed with Greens, wake up to a toxic society
When Adam Bandt, with his twisted logic, blames Israel for the despicable actions of Hamas you know you are entering an alternative reality.
Why 46pc for Vietnam but 17pc for Israel? The surprisingly simple math behind Trump’s tariffs
The numbers don’t necessarily match what foreign countries charge against imports from the US.
Hamas squeezed from both sides amid rising anger, growing Israeli offensive
A surge of Israeli troops in Gaza and the public killing of a Hamas police officer by members of an influential family come as the group is being squeezed on both sides.
Greens leader takes a ghasty stance on Israel
It is cruel beyond belief that the Greens leader is suggesting it is Israel’s fault that Hamas is treating Palestinians brutally.
Netanyahu called to testify in Qatargate probe
Benjamin Netanyahu was questioned after police arrested his two senior aides in a probe involving alleged payments from Qatar, an investigation he denounced as politically motivated.
Activists should condemn Hamas
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators must reject the terrorists’ violence.
Ghastly morality of the Greens: Bandt suggests Israel to blame for Hamas butchery
Greens leader Adam Bandt has bizarrely suggested Israel is to blame for Hamas’s brutal executions of Palestinians who had risen up against the terror group’s stranglehold of the Gaza Strip.
Pro-Palestine activists target Hawke’s old seat
Anti-Israel groups are combining resources to fight Labor’s special envoy for social cohesion in the seat of Wills and are backing the Greens candidate | WATCH
Peak multicultural body defends anti-Israel member
The nation’s top multicultural body has defended anti-Israel board member Aimen Jafri, who branded the country as a terrorist state, angering colleagues and Jewish leaders.
‘It’s pretty simple’: Rugby Australia rule out Folau comeback
Rugby Australia chief executive Phil Waugh has put a line through Israel Folau’s name, ending his dreams of a return against the British and Irish Lions later this year.
Israel warns of attacks ‘everywhere’ in Lebanon after rocket fire
Israel said it would enforce a ceasefire in Lebanon everywhere in the country, after rocket fire prompted it to bomb Beirut for the first time during the fragile four-month-old truce with Hezbollah.
October 7 spectre will haunt the election of May 3
In the seats where Muslim or Jewish voters form a critical mass (the former more numerous than the latter) the disaffected are revolting against Labor and creating ironic, and even perverse, outcomes.
Who will break first in war of attrition – Israel or Hamas?
Israel’s strategic situation is looks promising – but the fight isn’t over yet.
Israel supplied intelligence in air strike discussed in Signal chat
Israel has complained to the US after intelligence it supplied to the US on a Houthi target was discussed by Mike Waltz on the Signal war chat.
US deploys its stealthiest big bombers in range of Iran, Yemen
The Trump administration has deployed B-2 bombers to a base in the Indian Ocean amid its campaign against the Houthi militia.
Brave Gazans rejecting Hamas terror deserve support to end war
The amazing courage and bravery displayed by those many Gazans who are joining anti-Hamas protests and calling for an end to the war with Israel, is the greatest news I’ve read for a long time.
Former Wallabies teammates back Folau comeback
Wallabies greats have backed Israel Folau’s bid to play in the Australia and New Zealand Invitational side against the Lions, and one even wants to play alongside him.
Let Folau play: Why it’s time for Rugby Australia to move on
Six years ago, Jamie Pandaram demanded Israel Folau be sacked after posting homophobic content on social media. Now, he thinks Folau deserves a farewell during the Lions tour. Here’s why.
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