Australia/Israel Review

The evidence emerging from the Royal Commission’s hearings into antisemitism at Australian universities this week has been, regrettably, not surprising. It is, however, damning. The harrowing testimony of Jewish students and staff, together with the evidence of several university vice-chancellors, has laid bare systematic failures of university leadership that allowed antisemitism to flourish almost unchecked on campus, especially after the October 7th attacks by Hamas.

AIJAC director of special projects Dr Bren Carlill gave testimony at the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion on a survey that revealed a majority of Jewish students and faculty members feel intimidated on campus.

AIJAC executive manager Joel Burnie discussed the latest testimony at the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion.

The Australian – 11 July 2023 The paragraphs relating to Israel and the Palestinians in the latest draft ALP policy platform for its national conference on July 23-25 in Adelaide are deeply concerning. As The Australian reported this week (“ALP lifts pressure off PA, Hamas”, 7/7), dropped from the draft are explicit calls for Hamas to disarm, for the Palestinian Authority to reform and for guarantees of Israel’s security.

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The Algemeiner – 8 July 2026 December 14, 2025 will go down as one of the darkest moments in modern Australian history. The massacre that took place that day at Bondi Beach in Sydney, during a Chanukah event, left scars on Australian society that will not easily be healed. And while Jews were the primary target, the attack didn’t just break the hearts of Australian Jews, but the hearts of many Australians, who wondered what had become of their country.

July 9, 2026 | Justin Amler Sky News – 9 July 2026 Friday, July 3, 2026, marked one thousand days of war in Israel. A war that started when thousands of Hamas terrorists invaded Israel in the early hours of October 7, 2023, with the intention of murdering as many Jews as they could, sowing terror in the land of Israel. In what can only be described as scenes of hell on earth, the terrorists from Gaza murdered, raped, or burnt alive 1,200 men, women and children, and then kidnapped a further 251.

Jewish News Syndicate – 8 July 2026 We live in a time when truth has become a distant echo, and where false narratives appear to be more powerful, more emotionally satisfying. Since the October 7, 2023 attacks in Israel, we have seen this happen in real time. Almost immediately, those attacks were not just doubted, they were portrayed as fictitious.

The farce continues. A UN committee established to throw mud at Israel has thrown yet more mud. This time, it’s a report alleging that Israel has a policy of targeting children in Gaza. Political leaders know the report is full of holes and largely ignored it. In the entire gamut of Australian media, it produced only a handful of articles. But the people who already hate Israel, and the undecided, will read the headlines and come to incorrect conclusions.

“AIJAC is deeply concerned by reports that the ALP’s draft National Platform to be released at the upcoming national conference in Adelaide has dropped explicit calls for Hamas to disarm and for the Palestinian Authority to reform, as well as calls for guarantees of Israel’s security.