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Holocaust survivor found dead in Melbourne home, son charged with murder
A Melbourne man has been charged over the murder of his own mother, a Holocaust survivor, who fled Europe after World War II in search of a better life. Judy Bednar, 78, was found dead in her Chelsea home in Melbourne’s southeast after police conducted a welfare check on Saturday. Her 53-year-old son, Thomas Bednar,…
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Israel accuses Bella Hadid of advocating ‘throwing Jews into the sea’ during pro-Palestinian march
Bella Hadid livestreamed from a pro-Palestinian protest over the weekend. Israel’s official Twitter account posted footage from the protest and criticized the model. The Twitter account said Hadid was “advocating for the elimination of the Jewish State.” The official Twitter account for the state of Israel posted an image of Bella Hadid at a pro-Palestinian…
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The beginning of a new intifada?
The latest round of Palestinian unrest and the de facto state of war between Israel and Hamas is the most serious flare up on the Israel–Palestine front since the Israeli invasion of Gaza in 2014. According to reports, 197 Palestinians in Gaza have now lost their lives due to Israeli airstrikes and 10 Israelis have been…
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Hamas smashes the rules of war
Liberal MP Dave Sharma, our former ambassador to Israel, is right when he says ascribing moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas in the current Gaza conflict is naive and preposterous. The indiscriminate firing by Iran-linked Hamas of what Israel says has been more than 3000 mainly Iranian-supplied rockets targeted at Israeli civilian populations is, as…
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Britain’s Jews should not have to endure ‘shameful racism’, says Boris Johnson
London: Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday (Monday AEST) there was no place for anti-Semitism in society and that British Jews should not have to endure “shameful racism”, after a video online appeared to show people shouting anti-Semitic abuse from a car in London. Johnson was responding in part to the video, posted earlier on Sunday, showing…
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Israel-Gaza diplomacy wavers as Netanyahu says he’s not done
Officials from the US, Egypt, Qatar and United Nations are working around the clock to broker a truce in Gaza after more than a week of deadly fighting left more than 200 people dead but Israel’s leader signalled he’s not yet ready to let up. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday (Monday AEST) he’ll…
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Death toll rises as conflict between Hamas and Israel intensifies
Hamas and Israel have traded air strikes overnight leaving nearly 200 Palestinians and 10 Israelis dead. The UN Security Council has called for an immediate ceasefire however Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned it would take time before the fighting ends. Watch the report on Sky News.
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Hamas civilian casualties ‘perversely’ strengthen Hamas ‘propaganda arm’
EXCLUSIVE: The former Australian ambassador to Israel says Hamas is the only party which can end the Gaza conflict and Israeli airstrikes are broadly a defensive measure. In an exclusive with Sky News Liberal MP Dave Sharma has discussed his firsthand experiences in Israel where he was stationed as ambassador from 2013 to 2017 during…
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Israel, Iran, Hamas and Biden
As the latest war between Hamas and Israel enters its second week, the narrative is following a familiar script. Hamas fires rockets at Israeli cities, Israel retaliates by bombing the source of the rockets in Gaza, Hamas plays up the civilian casualties, and the world leans on Israel to stop defending itself. Let’s hope this…
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I lost sympathy for activist pleas with the 2000th rocket
The latest attacks on Israel are part of a decades-long plan to destroy the Jewish state and establish Islamist rule in its place. While the trigger and justification for violence against Israel changes with each conflict, the collective goal of transnational jihad remains the same. It is to wipe Israel off the map. The most…