Bennett declares tackling climate a new Israeli national security interest
“The climate crisis is one of the major issues on the world agenda. It concerns the lives of all of us,” says the Israeli prime minister
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Category: Israel
Keir Starmer is winning the battle for Labour’s soul
Yesterday, as Keir Starmer wrapped up his first full conference at the helm, he welcomed an emotional Louise Ellman back to the party she was forced out of two years earlier over the previous leadership’s wilful failure to tackle racism.
Louise Ellman: ‘So happy to be home in the Labour Party – I’m pretty emotional’
JEWISH NEWS INTERVIEW: “I felt things were changing. I always wanted to come back, I was waiting for the party to change,” reflects veteran politician at party conference.
Starmer puts weight behind Abraham Accords and ‘looks forward’ to Israel visit
Labour leader addressed LFI with video message saying the route to peace was to ‘bring people together through initiatives – not drive them apart through boycotts’
NSW Labor votes against BDS and supports the IHRA definition of “antisemitism.
The NSW ALP State Conference has rejected the party’s BDS campaign and has adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism.
Foreign policy win for Albo at NSW conference
Labor Leader Anthony Albanese has secured a foreign policy victory at NSW Labor’s conference, with anti-Israel proposals being rejected by the ALP’s largest branch
Positives for Albanese in neutralising gnawing negatives
The NSW Labor conference has endorsed Anthony Albanese’s rejection of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign and his commitment to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism
‘Labour’s stance on Israel-Palestine is shifting back to the balanced, mature and constructive approach of the Blair-Brown years’: Michael Rubin reflects on Labour Conference
Six years ago, at his first conference as Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn attended the Labour Friends of Israel reception and managed the remarkable feat of addressing attendees without uttering the name of the Jewish state.
The erasure from historical memory of Israeli statehood offers and Palestinian rejections is badly distorting today’s debate about Middle East peace
The erasure from our historical memory of Israeli attempts to achieve peace by agreeing to Palestinian statehood, and of the serial Palestinian rejections, is now standard practice.
First Among the Nations? A Cautionary against Triumphalism in Israeli Foreign Policy
Anchored in traditional texts, Judaism offers its own timeless political counsel against what ancient Greek tragedians referred to as hubris—excessive pride or arrogance that leads to nemesis, a reversal of fortunes and an eventual downfall.