Alex Ryvchin

On the effects of racist hate speech and proposed changes to anti-racism laws

While the desire to cripple our protections against public racial vilification appears to be a boutique issue of libertarian theory, the ...

Bonds go beyond hope for peace

There is much to celebrate about the visit of Benjamin Netanyahu to Australia; the first time a sitting Israeli Prime Minister has graced...

Security Council resolution on Israel will make standoff worse

In his last address to the United Nations Security Council on December 16, outgoing Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon recognised that the UN ...

Babi Yar: We Must Never Look Away, We Must Never Forget

This is the text of a speech delivered at the memorial ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre, on 20 November 201...

Indifference in Kiev 75 years after Babi Yar massacre of Jews

There is something about long-haul travel conducted in solitude that infuses the mind with a strange kind of focus. As I returned to Kiev...

In contributing to Australia's welfare, the Jews found theirs

Australia's Jewish community has always understood that its fortunes will rise and fall with the fortunes of the nation. And so, when Jew...

Balfour Notes

For the Jewish people the tiny sliver of land between the Jordan River and the eastern Mediterranean coast has always been their nation’s...

Terror in Tel Aviv

It was the night of 1 June 2001. Scores of teenagers queued outside the Dolphinarium nightclub on the long stretch of road running along ...

The Australian Left must learn from British Labour’s antisemitism scandal

British Labour may be in the throes of a crisis that could keep the party out of national government for a generation and threatens its c...

Tripped up by celebration of murder

The Palestinian Minister for Education, Dr Sabri Saidam has criticised a senior Australian delegation for posing “very explosive and very...

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