ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 204

Protesters at the Uninversity of Sydney. Screenshot: Facebook
‘Ugly face of Jew-hatred’
Anti-Israel USYD mob mimics Columbia protestors
By AJN STAFF
Demonstrators flew banners reading ‘Columbia First, USYD next’ while chanting ‘Long live the intifada’
Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, held captive in Gaza since October 7, in a Hamas propaganda video released on April 24, 2024. (The Times of Israel: Screenshot: Telegram)
“Bring Us Home Now”‘Stay strong,’ parents urge Hersh Goldberg-Polin after Hamas airs propaganda clip
By Emanuel Fabian, JESSICA STEINBERG, Jacob Magid and Michael Bachner
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OUR SAYEmpty chairs
By AJN STAFF
ECAJ co-CEO Peter Wertheim. Photo: Noel Kessel
False equivalencesACTU’s ‘shockingly misguided’ statement on Israel and Gaza
By AJN STAFF
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Sydney man Ben Cohen was wrongly named as the Bondi Junction attacker. Photo: X
'A MODERN BLOOD LIBEL'
Jewish man wrongly named as Bondi Junction launches legal proceedings
By AJN STAFF
Benjamin Cohen, who was incorrectly identified as the knife attacker by Channel 7, has engaged two of Australia’s foremost defamation lawyers.
Federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton at St kilda Shule speaking to more than 500 community members last Friday.Photo: Peter Haskin
"People are living in fear"
Dutton speaks to the community
By Bruce Hill
“The government has done significant damage to the relationship with Israel,” says Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan speaking with women from the Jewish community at Central Shule last Friday. Photo: Peter Haskin
Meeting with Jewish womenAllan visibly moved by accounts of intimidation
By Bruce Hill
Some of the anti-Israel posters in Fremantle.
Worker removes posters
Israel is ‘our ally’
By Bruce Hill
Murphy said the issue of the anti-Israel posters in Fremantle and the attitude of the Federal Labor government towards Israel is going to affect the way people like him vote.
Community members redoing the hostage posters mural in St Kilda last Tuesday after it was vandalised overnight. Photo: Peter Haskin
'Gutless cowards' condemned
Hostage wall defaced again
By Bruce Hill
“These extremists seek to intimidate the community through the darkness of night. They are gutless cowards,” says Caulfield MP David Southwick.
Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital. Photo: Whatmov/Wikimedia Commons
Jewish staff concernedGaza medical wish list found
By Bruce Hill
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Photo: KHAMENEI.IR / AFP
Breaking news
Israel launches strike on Iran in response to last weekend’s attack
By TOI STAFF
Iran says it shot down several drones and that there had been ‘no missile attack for now”, after explosions were heard near the central city of Isfahan
Israeli soldiers from the Netzah Yehuda Battalion patrol near the Israeli-Gaza border, October 20, 2023. (The Times of Israel: Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
'DANGEROUS' PRECEDENTUS mulling sanctions against other IDF units for alleged rights violations – sources
By Jacob Magid
Rabbi Mendel Kastel visiting the flower tribute in Bondi Junction. Photo: Gavin Coote/X
COMMUNITY MOURNS VICTIMS
Jewish woman ‘lucky to be alive’
By Carly Adno
Yvonne Wineberg was stabbed by the attacker and it is understood she was helped by another member of the Jewish community, who pulled her into the Chanel store.
Michal Keshet spoke at the rally. Photo: Ofer Levy
Let My People Go
Hostage families let down by Wong
By Carly Adno
“Were you too afraid to face the truth? Or you just couldn’t care less about Jewish people, Ms Wong?” said Michal Keshet.
The defaced hostage poster wall in St Kilda.
Posters defaced in MelbourneCalls for ‘intifada’ in Sydney
By Bruce Hill
Heshy Adelist working to remove graffiti.
Policy for racist graffiti‘One hour’ removal
By Bruce Hill
Iranian drones over the Knesset in Jerusalem.
'MUST CUT TIES WITH REGIME'
Iran’s Shocking Escalation
By Peter Kohn
“Iran’s evil intent has been brought out into the open,” posted Liberal MP Julian Leeser.
Projectiles being intercepted over the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. Screenshot: X
Our SayIran threat
By AJN STAFF
Anton Berezin in Rootless Cosmopolitans.
A timely play
Rootless Cosmopolitans
By Sharyn Kolieb
“Isn’t that how we as Jews deal with the struggles and challenges of life … You’ve got to’laugh or else you go bananas,” says Anton Berezin
MPs Josh Burns and David Southwick have known each other for years and have developed a mutual respect.
Burns and Southwick
Meeting in the Middle
By Bruce Hill
Both MPs have had a good working relationship since the pandemic, but October 7 meant their relationship had to go to another level.
Photo: The Australian National University
'BLOW TO JEWISH AUSTRALIANS'
Labor’s Palestine pivot
By Peter Kohn
“Any talk of recognition of Palestinian statehood in such close proximity to the October 7 attacks is entirely premature,” says Zionist Federation of Australia president Jeremy Leibler.
Slain Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom. Photo: X
Zomi FrankcomGovernment to oversee Israeli investigation
By Gareth Narunsky
Peter Dutton speaking to Rabbinical Council of NSW members at Bondi Mizrachi Synagogue on December 4. Photo: Shane Desiatnik
Tom Hughes Oration
Dutton takes aim at Wong over Palestinian state
By Gareth Narunsky
‘Penny Wong has irreparably damaged our relations with our ally Israel,” Opposition leader says.
Incoming NSW Jewish Board of Deputies CEO Michele Goldman. Photo: LinkedIn
Search is over
Michele Goldman appointed NSW Jewish Board of Deputies CEO
By AJN STAFF
Her appointment follows an extensive search following the departure of previous CEO Darren Bark in July last year
Dr Sharon Nazarian. Photo: Giselle Haber
JCA gala event
‘A whole-of-society challenge’
By Shane Desiatnik
“By the time Israel went into Gaza [in late October], the whole energy of the classroom shifted,” says Dr Sharon Nazarian.
JCA One Day Choir. Photo: Giselle Haber
LIVELY DISCUSSIONFormer PM critical of current leadership
By Carly Adno
Michal Lewinsohn speaks at the vigil. Photo: Peter Haskin
St Kilda eventSunset vigil marks six months
By Bruce Hill
Danielle Wolfson and others call for the release of the hostages at the summit of Mount Kosciuszko.
Top of AustraliaKosciuszko climb in support of hostages
By Bruce Hill
Joe Krycer. Photo: Dean Schmideg
JOE KRYCER MOURNED
‘Visionary, innovator, family man’
By Peter Kohn
Krycer became active in the Victorian Jewish Board of Deputies (now Jewish Community Council of Victoria) and in B’nai B’rith, campaigning to free Soviet and Ethiopian Jewry.
From left: Michael Gawenda, Sam Lipski and Philip Mendes.
FORUM ON MEDIA
Advocacy journalism to blame for imbalance
By Peter Kohn
“I know I would not want to be a Jewish journalist working for the Fairfax [Nine] papers or for the ABC,” says Michael Gawenda.
Displaced Palestinians gather to receive food at a government school in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on February 19, 2024. (The Times of Israel: Mohammed Abed/AFP)
Rabbi urges compassionConcerns over visas
By Bruce Hill
Foreign minister Penny Wong. Photo: AAP Image/Lukas Coch
PALESTINIAN RECOGNITIONPenny Wong prepared to recognise Palestinian statehood
By AJN STAFF
Gary Groves (right) took over from Clare Vernon (left) in 2021.
Tumultuous period
JewishCare CEO resigns
By AJN STAFF
“In his four years as CEO of JewishCare, Gary has presided over a period of immense change and challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic,” says JewishCare president Jason Sandler.
Still from a video statement on the war in Gaza by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, April 8, 2024. (The Times of Israel: Screenshot, GPO)
'This will happen'
Israel has circled date in calendar for repeatedly-pledged Rafah invasion, PM says
By LAZAR BERMAN and Jacob Magid
Jerusalem hasn’t yet briefed Washington on the matter, Biden administration says, adding that Israel has agreed to hold off until Netanyahu’s aides discuss matter further in DC.
IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi speaks to the press from an army base in central Israel, April 7, 2024. (The Times of Israel: Israel Defense Forces)
'We are far from stopping'IDF chief says withdrawal of troops from Gaza doesn’t mean war is close to end
By Emanuel Fabian
Doron Atzmon trains at Bondi.
Running in their memory
Marathon for PTSD
By Gareth Narunsky
Doron Atzmon has been training hard on the latter for the gruelling 252km multi-day Marathon De Sables to be held in Morocco later this month.
The Times of Israel: Eylon Levy
Eylon Levy
The stunning rise, curious suspension and insistent return of Israel’s star spokesman
By DAVID HOROVITZ
Anna Pasternak
We want peace
The blindfold has been ripped off
By Anna Pasternak
Tragically, the silence from the so-called moderate Palestinians following the massacre was and has remained deafening.
From left, David Southwick, Rabbi Allison Conyer, Maureen Barten and Paul Hamer. Photo: Peter Haskin
PJV PARLIAMENTARY PESACH
Rabbi’s four questions
By Peter Kohn
“Why this year can we not recline or relax? … We are grief-stricken, uncertain of the future.”
British journalist and commentator Douglas Murray
SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL
One-on-one with Douglas Murray
By Bruce Hill
British intellectual Douglas Murray speaks with Bruce Hill ahead of his visit to Australia about the recent upsurge in antisemitism worldwide.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (right) and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton at the opening of MHM. Photo: Peter Haskin
BIPARTISAN SUPPORT
Melbourne Holocaust Museum reopens
By Bruce Hill
“Jewish Australians have been bearing a pain you should never have had to bear again,” said Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
Jayne Josem (left) shows then PM Julia Gillard through the Jewish Holocaust Centre in 2012, now the Melbourne Holocaust Museum. Photo: Peter Haskin
MHM CHANGE OF LEADERSHIPHolocaust museum’s new CEO
By Peter Kohn
Donated suitcases for Operation Golda.
VOLUNTEER EFFORTS
Grassroots campaigns bring hope and help
By SHANE DESIATNIK & CAROL SAFFER
A number of small grassroots efforts have sprung up to support Israel.
Ariel, co-owner of Sydney cafe Shuk
Keep sharing the truthShuk owner shares Haachim food operation
By Jessica Abelsohn
Some of the wares for sale.
Connecting with IsraelSupporting Israeli businesses in tangible ways
By Jessica Abelsohn
Dream Team from left: Hagar, Avi, Aviva, Yaffa, Dan, Vered. Photo: Peter Haskin
The underpants came firstCommunity rallies for Israel
By Carol Saffer
The sails of Sydney Opera House shone blue and white on Monday October 9 2023, in solidarity with the people of Israel.
FROM THE DIRECTOR
We stand with Israel
A message from The Australian Jewish News.
Photo: Alon Shafransky
Advocating for Israel
Simply Noa
By Rebecca Davis
Noa Tishby is a Hollywood actress, producer, author and pro-Israel activist. Last week she visited Australia as a guest of JNF Australia. In interviews – both privately and live on stage for a cocktail event hosted by JNFuture Victoria in partnership with The AJN – she reflects on her journey.
Taking back Zionism
By Gareth Narunsky
Members of the Sydney Jewish community at a pro-Israel rally. Photo: File
Census data released
Record number of Jews
By Peter Kohn
Jews rounded up in Budapest, Hungary, in October 1944. Photo: Faupel/Wikipediacommons.com
Holocaust Awareness
Today’s Australians and the Holocaust
By Peter Kohn
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David Baddiel. Photo: Steve Best/Xavicus Media
Ignorance of antisemitism‘Jews don’t count’
By Carly Adno
Eytan Lenko, chair of Jewish Climate Network with Anna Solomon, founder of JCN NSW.
Climate change awarenessJCN expands to NSW
By Mia Gardiner
CEO of Jewish House Rabbi Mendel Kastel has been taking in people struggling with homelessness and their pets.
Jewish HousePeople and pets can stay together
By Carly Adno
IN MY POCKET is a project aimed at primary school aged children.
In My PocketProgram aimed at school children
By AJN STAFF
Saved hundredsNicholas Winton, the ‘British Schindler,’ dies at age 106
Esther Wise (centre) at the premier screening of her documentary "Never Forget" with her daughters Ruth Shafir and Brenda Ross.
DocumentarySurvivor’s story becomes part of VCE curriculum
By Mia Gardiner
For the boysSupporting The. Greatest. Of. All. Time
By Jessica Abelsohn
JIFF At The MoviesCould you be friends with Adolf?
By Lindy Tamir
Photo: Manuel Harlan
Simply the bestFrom Anna to Tina and the queen of rock and roll
By Jessica Abelsohn
Cillian Murphy plays J. Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan's film Oppenheimer. Photo: Universal Pictures
The 'bomb hero'The Jewish story behind Oppenheimer
By AJN STAFF
Those we are missing
The hostages and victims whose fate is still unknown
Those we have lost
Stories of the civilians and soldiers who have fallen in the Israel-Hamas war
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