In all the furore about #BobVylan, most people have conveniently forgotten that the ranting was preceded by a rabidly antisemitic story - live on the BBC - about his former Jewish boss, who he called “a f*cking Zionist” and “bald-headed c*nt”. We know what you meant, Pascal.

The reference to physical characteristics of the “Zionist”. The allusions to Zionists controlling the music industry. The sneering tone. The mob lapping it up. We all know what this is.

Last night we saw a return to the antisemitic terror of the summer months. At 8pm, a man entered the grounds of the East Melbourne Synagogue, poured a flammable liquid on the front door and attempted to burn the place of worship as 20 Jewish Australians sat down to Shabbat dinner

The implementation of the Special Envoy’s Plan to Combat Anti-Semitism is not a gift or a service to Jewish Australians. We are a hearty and stoic people, and have learned to fend for ourselves. It is needed for Australia. A country where cars are routinely daubed with racist

Seeing a group resembling an Al Qaeda terror cell openly pledging to carry out criminal acts is chilling and disturbing. It doesn’t matter that they think they’re doing something just and righteous - Islamist terrorists and Neo-Nazis think that too. What matters is that we remain

Senator Faruqi is the master of pointless stunts that make her radical base feel good but change nothing. The Senator holds up a sign declaring that words won’t feed anyone as though her sign will. Sanctioning Israel won’t feed anyone either. The only way to end the horrific cost

The Jewish community didn’t need a review to know how grossly offensive and insulting this presentation was. The Dutton’s Jew slide and accompanying remarks suggest that the vast majority of Australian Jews are so obsequious or unenlightened that we can’t tell the difference

Where would Australian high school students learn this behaviour? Form the belief that it is ok, even righteous to see a Jewish symbol on the uniforms of 8 and 9 year olds and subject them to chants about Palestine? It comes from a certain moral collapse brought about by nearly

Our society hasn’t recovered from the shame of the Opera House steps. Now they want to take over our Harbour Bridge and paralyse our great city.

Someone’s angling for another taxpayer-funded invite to Adelaide Writers Week.

Baruch Dayan HaEmess. We mourn the heartbreaking loss of Julia Hyman, a proud young Jewish woman, 2020 Cornell graduate and rising professional at Rudin Management, whose life was stolen in the Midtown shooting at 345 Park Avenue. At just 27, Julia carried herself with

Anyone who supports getting more food to people in Gaza—as I do—must also ask tough questions of the UN. This isn't about grainy footage. The UN itself reports that 87% of its 2,010 food trucks in Gaza (85% by tonnage) from May 19–July 29 were "intercepted"—either peacefully by

Recognizing a Palestinian state without conditions will perpetuate the conflict not end it. What conditions?Leaders credibly committed to coexistence/non-violence, no independent militias, no alliances with rejectionists, recognition of the historic Jewish ties to the land,etc.

PETER O'BRIEN | "I have been reading Alex Ryvchin’s The Seven Deadly Myths. This is a confronting and compelling explanation of the phenomenon of antisemitism. Ryvchin argues that as phobias go, this one is in a class of its own." spectator.com.au/2025/08/did-i-…

Israel wasn’t recognised by the world as a gift bestowed upon the Jewish people. It was recognised because it had attained statehood by virtue of carefully building the components of a viable, democratic state – a free press, a multi-party political system, a vibrant civil

The Prime Minister framed the recognition of Palestine as a defeat for Hamas because of its violent opposition to a two-state solution and desire to replace Israel with a Palestinian state from the river to the sea. He is right about Hamas’s intentions but wrong about how they

"I'm so tired of people blaming Israel for the fact that it's defending themselves against the monsters who raped women in front of their families, who mutilated their bodies, who burned babies, who beheaded people, who burned elderly people in their wheelchairs, who took 250

With an unprecedented tsunami of antisemitism facing Jews in Australia, and relations with Israel painfully strained, the Jewish community could not ask for a more fearless or inspiring leader at this time than Alex Ryvchin. As for me, I could not ask for a better friend!