Australia/Israel Review

AIJAC executive manager Joel Burnie spoke with Gabriella Power about the Royal Commission and the climate of antisemitism that continues.

The AIJAC report, Biased Guidance: How the ABC’s Middle East framework undermines its own standards, analyses the guidance document, obtained under freedom of information, and finds that it embeds contested allegations against Israel as the ABC newsroom’s default framework. The report can be found here. Why does this matter? The ABC is mandated to be neutral on contested issues, like the Israeli–Palestinian dispute, and claims that it is.

Executive Summary The ABC’s Middle East Conflict Guidance document was created by the ABC to ensure it produces news and analysis with accuracy, attribution, verification and the inclusion of a diversity of relevant perspectives. However, the document embeds a hierarchy of presumptions.

The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) is the premier public affairs organisation for the Australian Jewish community.

Download a printable PDF This document classifies each of the 30 relevant claims and propositions made by Justice Fagan in his findings in State of New South Wales v Farhat (final) [2026] NSWSC 985, then corrects or contextualises them. This is not a legal analysis of the findings in the case, but only of the factual and political claims made in the judgement. Fagan made claims on the following issues and themes: Was the Jewish community targeted?

Daily Telegraph & Courier Mail – 27 August 2026 Today will mark the conclusion of the public hearings at the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion. But it is not the end of the Commission’s process. In many respects, it is where the most important part now begins, the writing of the final report and formulating the recommendations.

AIJAC Executive Manager Joel Burnie told News24’s Chris Kenny that he and the Jewish community “begged” the government to address the sudden rise in antisemitism “knowing that if nothing was done” it would result in the “events of December 14”.

The latest UN data shows that Gazan children under the age of five are displaying acute malnutrition levels below those measured before the Hamas-Israel war, and lower than those of several other countries in the region. However, the situation across the Strip remains complex, even as the United Nations confirmed that terrorist organisations such as Hamas are continuing to steal humanitarian aid.

Australian Financial Review  – Aug 25, 2026 The NSW government asked the Supreme Court for an extended terrorism order over one man, Mohammed Farhat, and Justice Desmond Fagan refused it in a decision released this week.

The death of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom and her six World Central Kitchen (WCK) colleagues in Gaza was profoundly tragic. Their lives were dedicated to helping others, and nothing can diminish the grief of their families and colleagues, or the truly important work of WCK.