Shurat HaDin

Moria Shapira, an Airbnb apartment owner, cleans her apartment in the Adei Ad outpost north of the Palestinian village of al-Mughayyir, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Nov. 20, 2018. (Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images)

April 10, 2019, 10:13 am

Airbnb will cancel its ban on West Bank settlement listings

In a reversal of a 2018 policy announcement, Airbnb will not remove West Bank settlement listings from its website.

Australia's Foreign Minister Julie Bishop. Photo: Noel Kessel

July 5, 2018, 12:01 am

THE Jewish community has cautiously welcomed a landmark announcement by the Australian government ending direct aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) through the World Bank, amid growing concerns that Australia's tax dollars may be helping to fund terrorism.

By Peter Kohn

August 24, 2017, 12:01 am

Shredding terrorism’s budget

PROCEEDINGS have been launched against Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in the US Federal Court by Israeli activist organisation Shurat HaDin, the Israel Law Centre, claiming these social-media giants have hosted material inciting terrorism.

By Peter Kohn

August 11, 2016, 12:00 am

World Vision suspends Gaza operations

World Vision announced last week that it had suspended its operations in Gaza, following allegations that the global charity’s local director had siphoned millions of dollars of aid money to the military wing of Hamas.

By Peter Kohn

July 21, 2014, 12:00 am

Shurat HaDin drops case against Lynch

ISRAELI civil rights group Shurat HaDin and Associate Professor Jake Lynch are both claiming victory after the former withdrew its class action racism lawsuit against the University of Sydney academic.

By Gareth Narunsky

June 13, 2014, 12:00 am

Sydney Uni staff narrowly vote down BDS

THE University of Sydney branch of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) may have moved towards joining the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement if not for the intervention of NTEU national general secretary Grahame McCulloch.

By Gareth Narunsky

April 1, 2014, 12:00 am

Shurat case ‘pumped up’

A LAWYER for Jake Lynch, the Associate Professor of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPACS) at the University of Sydney, has accused Israeli civil rights group Shurat HaDin of attempting to financially damage and bankrupt its opponents in the NSW branch of the Federal Court on Tuesday.

By Gareth Narunsky and Evan Zlatkis

November 7, 2013, 12:00 am

Racism lawsuit against Lynch

THE Executive Council of Australian Jewry has distanced itself from Israeli civil rights group Shurat HaDin after the latter filed a class action lawsuit against prominent BDS (Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions) supporter Jake Lynch.

By Gareth Narunsky

August 13, 2013, 12:00 am

Racism complaint launched against BDS activist Lynch

ISRAELI civil rights organisation Shurat HaDin has lodged an official complaint with the Australian Human Rights Commission against Associate Professor Jake Lynch for his support of the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.

June 21, 2013, 12:00 am

BDS backers threatened with litigation

ISRAELI civil rights organisation Shurat HaDin has threatened legal action against several Australian supporters of the anti-Israel Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, including outspoken University of Sydney academic Jake Lynch and Sydney Peace Foundation head Stuart Rees.

By Gareth Narunsky

June 6, 2013, 12:00 am

World Vision defends Gaza group funding

WORLD Vision advisor Professor Tim McCormack has come out firing against accusations by Israeli organisation Shurat HaDin that a Gaza-based charity it funds is a front for terror.

By Gareth Narunsky and Peter Kohn

November 19, 2012, 12:00 am

Carr gets personal over UAWC funding

A WAR of words has erupted in the Senate over the government’s handling of allegations that Australian taxpayers are unwittingly funding a Palestinian terrorist group.

By Gareth Narunsky

October 19, 2012, 12:00 am

World Vision court action on hold

ISRAELI civil rights group Shurat HaDin has postponed commencing legal action against World Vision Australia after the two organisations met in Sydney over the weekend.

By Gareth Narunsky

October 11, 2012, 10:08 am

Israeli group threatens World Vision with court

WORLD Vision has until next week to stop funding a Gaza-based charity that an Israeli civil-rights group claims is a front for terror, or face legal action.

By Gareth Narunsky

September 7, 2012, 12:00 am

AusAID terror funding saga continues

ACCUSATIONS that the federal government’s foreign aid arm, AusAID, is unwittingly funding Palestinian terror won’t go away, with Foreign Affairs Minister Bob Carr grilled on the issue in the Senate late last month.

By Gareth Narunsky