Author: Jmedia Manager

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The sentences, some of them already further extended, of a number of militant Islamists convicted of terrorist conspiracy are about to expire. But releasing unreformed or “non-“deradicalised” jihadis back into the community may pose risks. Indefinitely continuing incarceration after a felon has served his time seems bad in principle. But where the risk is a…

Australia cannot look away from Iran’s atrocities

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in Print, Sydney Morning Herald

Australia needs to use its final year on the Human Rights Council to condemn in the strongest possible terms Iran’s human rights abuses. With Iran holding parliamentary elections for the first time in four years on Friday February 21 and the 43rd Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council due to convene on Monday,…

Hardliners may tighten grip in Iran vote

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in Other Print, Print

Hardliners are set to tighten control of Iran this week in a parliamentary election stacked in their favour, as the leadership closes ranks in a deepening confrontation with Washington. Big gains by security hawks would confirm the political demise of the country’s pragmatist politicians, weakened by Washington’s decision to quit a 2015 nuclear deal and…

This Holocaust survivor thinks the world has learnt nothing from the war

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in SBS, Television

89-year-old Paul Millet sometimes wonders if the world has learnt anything from the Holocaust. He’s urging all Australians to find a solution. Watch the report on SBS TV News.

A study of antisemitism

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in ABC, Radio

The main threat of antisemitism is its use as a conspiracy theory to undermine democracy, says Deborah Lipstadt. She traces the origin of antisemitism and defines a template that’s been used by both the political right and left – even today. John Button Oration: In the Face of Hatred presented by the Melbourne School of Government,…

Liam Getreu Discusses Annexation, the Trump Deal and the Rivlin Visit

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in ABC, Online, Television, YouTube and Vimeo

NIF Australia’s executive director Liam Getreu joined ABC TV The World’s Bev O’Connor on Wednesday 19 February to discuss Trump’s deal, annexation, the Israeli elections, Malka Leifer and President Rivlin’s visit to Australia. Watch the video of the interview from ABC News.

A brazen anti-Semitic ‘blacklist’

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in Print, The Australian

In 2018 Nikki Haley, Donald Trump’s UN ambassador at the time, was right on the money when she described the UN Human Rights Council as a “cesspool of political bias” against Israel. Her exasperated assessment then is even more relevant now following the publication of the council’s “blacklist” of 112 international and local companies operating…

Israeli armed forces foil Hamas phone-flirting honeytrap

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in Print, The Australian

The Israeli military claims to have foiled a Hamas “honeytrap” in which soldiers’ phones were compromised by militants posing as young women. Soldiers were targeted with messages in the hope that they would download malware that allowed their phones to be hacked. Dozens were said to have done so. Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus said it…

Frydenberg fights citizenship challenge

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in Australian Financial Review, Print

Josh Frydenberg’s eligibility to sit in Parliament is under scrutiny by the Federal Court after a climate activist who lives in his electorate launched a legal claim that the Treasurer is a dual Australian-Hungarian citizen via his mother’s bloodline. If Mr Frydenberg loses the case and the court rules he is a citizen of Hungary,…

The paradigm shift on Palestine

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