Antisemetism
Former Prime Minister John Howard with Rabbi Levi Wolff at Central Synagogue.
November 23, 2023, 11:30 am
‘Enriched our lives and our nation’
"As an Australian, I am ashamed at what your community has been subjected to over the past few weeks," former Prime Minister John Howard.
By Carly Adno
Pro-Palestinian protesters in Brisbane last month. Photo: AAP Image/Darren England
November 16, 2023, 11:47 am
How not to be pro-Palestinian
The most famous, or infamous, of the English slogans at pro-Palestinian rallies is "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free." This, too, is a fairly open call for the ethnic cleansing of the Jews between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
By OVED LOBEL
School girls watch as UNRWA commissioner-general Pierre Krahenbuhl gives a press conference in Gaza in 2018. Photo: AP Photo/Adel Hana
November 12, 2023, 6:57 am
UNRWA staff praised massacres
"...the study found that at least 100 Hamas members who have carried out terror attacks against Israelis in recent years are graduates of the UNRWA education system."
By JEREMY SHARON
The mezuzah contains a passage from the Torah commanding Jews to inscribe the words on the doorposts of their homes. (Marta Iwanek/Toronto Star via Getty Images).
November 6, 2023, 4:30 pm
The fear and fearlessness of hanging a mezuzah
Some Jews are taking down their mezuzahs due to antisemitism. Some non-Jews are putting them up.
By Andrew Lapin
Wollongong Lord Mayor Gordon Bradbery AM opens the Courage to Care exhibition Photo: Chelsea Caligari
October 17, 2023, 7:22 am
Commitment to Holocaust education
Courage to Care uses inspiring stories of survival from the Holocaust to illustrate the importance of being an 'upstander' when confronted by discrimination.
By AJN STAFF
Olympics swimming champion Ian Thorpe at the Auschwitz memorial site in Poland.
October 15, 2023, 6:36 am
Fresh ideas on combating hate
Geffen told The AJN the launch will go ahead during the Hamas–Israel war, because it is apt to launch a program combating antisemitism during a war which represents "blind hatred of Jews and Israel".
By Peter Kohn
Pro-Palestinian protestors demonstrating in Melbourne.
October 13, 2023, 12:50 pm
‘Further demonstrations are utterly tone-deaf and deeply inappropriate’
Sydney anti-Israel rally to go ahead on Sunday without permit; In Melbourne, Caulfield MP David Southwick raises concern over extremism
By Gareth Narunsky
Palestinian peace activist Professor Mohammed Dajani, founder of the Wasatia anti-radicalisation movement, during a visit to Auschwitz in 2014. Photo: Courtesy
October 3, 2023, 6:35 am
Holocaust denial in Palestinian society
Palestinian professor Mohammed Dajani, who took his students to Auschwitz, tells Gianluca Pacchiani that distortion of Nazi atrocities is deeply tied to Palestinian narrative and built on lack of education.
By AJN STAFF
Alex Ryvchin, author of The 7 Deadly Myths.
August 17, 2023, 3:00 pm
Ryvchin dives deep into antisemitic myths
The book has been described by Israel’s President Isaac Herzog as “mandatory reading for anyone seeking to understand the age-old phenomenon of antisemitism, but more so, of anyone concerned with the ethical fate of the human race”.
By AJN STAFF
Julia Sussman. Photo: Supplied
August 3, 2023, 1:07 pm
Making a difference in the community
Four young NSW Jewish Board of Deputies (JBD) directors share their motivations for being involved and how they and the community benefit.
By AJN STAFF
Star of David memorials for Bowers' 11 victims outside the Tree of Life synagogue two days after the mass shooting in 2018. Photo: EPA/Jared Wickerham
July 18, 2023, 7:40 am
Gunman ‘radicalised online’
The defence experts "simply mistook every ordinary widespread white separatist belief as delusions because they were not familiar with them", he said.
A makeshift memorial outside the Tree of Life Synagogue in the aftermath of the deadly shooting in October 2018. Photo: AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File
April 24, 2023, 6:45 am
Death penalty looms over Pittsburgh massacre trial
"It will be the jury's ultimate decision whether to impose the death penalty – not the government's," federal prosecutors told US District Judge Robert Colville
By MARK SCOLFORO
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