This lazy, poorly researched ABC News article doesn't even bother challenging the Islamic Republic's ridiculous narrative that executed German citizen Jamshid Sharmahd was guilty of terrorism (he hadn't even lived in Iran for decades prior to the attack he was allegedly complicit

Extremely powerful words on the brutality of the Islamic Republic of Iran regime in executing Jamshid Sharmahd, a German citizen and USA permanent resident. As Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert says, 'democratic Western free states need to stand up against the Islamic Republic's hostage taking.'

Looking for something funny, stimulating, and profound to do in Melbourne on Sunday, December 15th at 3pm? Join me and John Safran as we talk of his new book Squat, his writing, and his legendary chutzpah. trybooking.com/events/landing… The Jewish Independent

Read this excellent comment piece by Ramona Koval in The Saturday Paper on how since 7 October the Australian left's traditional anti-zionist politics has been bleeding into violent antisemitism on the streets of Sydney and Melbourne.

The fight against anti-Semitism thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topic/… via The Saturday Paper

Ramona Koval on the fight against anti-Semitism in Australia: satpa.pe/M9AStAA

So good to be in The Saturday Paper again.

If you missed my live conversation with John Safran fret no more! Here it is - on his book Squat, his bumbling methodology, his exploration of hiphop and antisemitism & how he got to where he is. And it's funny. youtu.be/gzl61g5wRfk?fe… via YouTube The Jewish Independent

Not only does Bennu contain all 5 of the nucleobases that form DNA and RNA on Earth and 14 of the 20 amino acids found in known proteins, the asteroid’s amino acids hold a surprise go.nature.com/4hAISfn

…”the three drivers” which impel me to speak out in support of the Jewish people during the current upsurge in antisemitism.” The Jewish Independent #antisemitism ⁦NSW Jewish Board of Deputies⁩ thejewishindependent.com.au/if-you-empathi…

Peruvian Nobel prize for literature winner Mario Vargas Llosa died in Lima yesterday at the age of 89. I spoke to him in Edinburgh in 2004 on power, politics, dictatorships, his failure as a politician and his life in writing. ramonakoval.com/blog/on-the-de… #mariovargasllosa

Peruvian Nobel prize for literature winner Mario Vargas Llosa died in Lima yesterday at the age of 89. I spoke to him in Edinburgh in 2004 on power, politics, dictatorships, his failure as a politician and his life in writing. #MarioVargasLlosa ramonakoval.com/blog/on-the-de…

Vale Damien Broderick Australian SF writer, brilliant, funny and eccentric. Credited by the Encyclopaedia of Science Fiction for first using the term “Virtual reality” in his 1982 novel The Judas Mandala. Here's an interview. ramonakoval.com/blog/vale-dami…

‘I want me back’ – after a head injury, Nick struggles with his altered reality – aeon.co/videos/i-want-… via Aeon Magazine

How are we meant to sit with the devastating realities of history unfolding when we don’t allow ourselves the psychic or temporal space to truly grieve and mourn the deaths, to lament the rapes and terrors? | Christos Tsiolkas on hope in the worst of times mnth.ly/5QBjkDX

Michael Gawenda writes on anti-Semitism in the context of Australia’s federal election campaign. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/2025/05/09/con…

American writer Edmund White died this week at 85. Here’s our energetic conversation on Rimbaud: the Double Life of a Rebel, the brilliant and troubled Arthur Rimbaud who with lover Verlaine forged a new way of writing and an anarchistic way of living ramonakoval.com/interviews2/ed…

Melbourne last night: arson attack on a synagogue and a masked anti-Israel mob storms an Israeli restaurant (Miznon) shouting “death to the IDF.” My feature published today on one man’s crusade against “two tier policing” is sadly very timely. theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/jewis…

For years now the Iranian-Australian community and other victims of the IRGC, including myself, have been literally screaming at rallies, to our local MPs, in parliamentary consultations and in reports to the national security hotline that Iranian agents are operating brazenly