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.
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’
The NSW ALP State Conference has rejected the party’s BDS campaign and has adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism.
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
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
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 our historical memory of Israeli attempts to achieve peace by agreeing to Palestinian statehood, and of the serial Palestinian rejections, is now standard practice.
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.
As the new Jewish state was taking root in 1948, an estimated 850,000 Jews living in Arab countries were being expelled or fled their homes in those countries
As an ongoing political crisis in Israel precluded formation of a coalition and a government, the Arab vote became increasingly legitimate in the eyes of most Jewish parties, from both the right and the center-left.
