10 July 2025: We are deeply alarmed by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s embrace of recommendations that would see public funding withheld from universities, media organisations, and arts institutions unless they adopt a deeply contested definition of antisemitism—one that dangerously conflates criticism of Israel with hatred of Jews.
Read MoreStatement: FPM condemns attack on the East Melbourne Synagogue
8 July 2025: Free Palestine Melbourne condemns in the strongest possible terms the attack on the East Melbourne Synagogue.
Read MoreBe alert and alarmed: Campus silencing on Palestine
Protesting students occupy an area of the quadrangle at the University of Sydney in Sydney, Friday, May 3, 2024. Encampments have sprung up at colleges in major Australian cities as participants protest over the Israel-Hamas war in solidarity with student demonstrators in the United States. Image:AAP/AP/Rick Rycroft In a number of countries, universities are now […]
Read MoreEndless onslaught: Would Israel’s Mordechai be attacked as ‘antisemitic’ in Australia?
Haaretz, Israel’s oldest and most widely known newspaper, has just published a long, roughly 8,000 word feature article, about the work of Lee Mordechai, the Associate Professor of History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has compiled on line a massive report entitled “Bearing Witness to the Israel-Gaza War.” The English translation of the […]
Read MoreKnesset law to allow deportation of Palestinian attackers’ families
Israel’s parliament has passed a law that would allow it to deport family members of Palestinian attackers, including the country’s own citizens, to the war-ravaged Gaza Strip or other locations. The law, championed by members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and his far-right allies, passed with a 61-41 vote on Thursday. However, […]
Read MoreActivist Zee Mazloum posted vile Jewish threats
A social media account connected to an “anti-racism” activist who shared the leaked personal details of hundreds of Jewish creatives said that “Arab Jews can f..k off and die”, vowing that the entire community would be “targeted one by one”. In social media posts in March, two months after the mass doxxing incident of about […]
Read MoreIsraeli tanks push deeper into Gaza forcing more families out
Cairo: Israeli forces have stepped up bombardment across the Gaza Strip and ordered more evacuations, creating a fresh wave of displacement from northern Gaza, to which Palestinians fear they will not be able to return. As Israeli tanks advanced in Beit Lahiya, a month into a new push on northern Gaza, dozens of families streamed […]
Read MoreIsrael sends rescue planes after attacks on soccer fans
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered two rescue planes be sent to the Netherlands on Friday after violence targeting Israeli football fans broke out in Amsterdam overnight. Videos circulating on social media showed street clashes overnight and riot police intervening. The order to send planes was taken after “a very violent incident” targeting Israeli […]
Read MoreJews ‘a death cult’: more slurs engulf Sydney restaurant scene
The owner of upmarket Bistro St Jacques restaurant in Redfern in inner Sydney has horrified Jewish customers by posting on social media a picture of an Israel soldier in the form of a pig, alongside a comment describing Jews as a “death cult”. Proprietor Nick Stone posted the images on October 7 on his Instagram […]
Read MoreAttacks on Jews in Australia at record levels
Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin says ‘the Jewish community has been permanently transformed by the events of the past year’ Picture: John Feder Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin says ‘the Jewish community has been permanently transformed by the events of the past year’ Picture: John Feder Australia’s […]
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