A smokescreen for Israel’s territorial annexation ambitions The Plan unveiled by President Trump on the 28 January 2020 is anything but what it purports to be. It gives Israel just about everything that Netanyahu and…
Category: Statements
“Deal of the Century” ignores Palestinians, not viable This is a joint Jewish statement. See the list of signatories below. As organisations believing that Israelis and Palestinians can work together to build a common future…
Beyond politics – a Jewish call for serious climate action Together with many other Australians, Jewish people are responding to a dreadful national disaster by contributing money and support to people who have lost loved…
The Jerusalem Prize for 2019 has been awarded to Scott Morrison, according to reports in the Australian Jewish News and J-Wire. Making the announcement, the President of the Zionist Federation of Australia (ZFA), Jeremy Leibler,…
Orly Noy, a Mizrahi journalist and activist from Jerusalem, recently visited Australia on a speaking tour organised by the Australian Jewish Democratic Society (AJDS). Alongside a series of successful events in Melbourne and Sydney, in…
The Australian Jewish Democratic Society responds with horror to the neo-Nazi terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch New Zealand. We would like to extend our deepest sympathy to the families of the victims and…
With the Victorian State election just days away, we might pause to ask what is at stake when we go to vote. The Liberal opposition is attempting to make an issue of law and order. They use…
The Australian Jewish Democratic Society is outraged by revelations from the coalition of researchers at the White Rose Society and the ABC Background Briefing program that neo-Nazis and members of the alt-right are stacking the…
1. On the situation in Gaza Over the last week, the JCCV has released a statement on facebook, and then via email to affiliates, regarding the AJDS and our response to the recent events in…
This past week has been a week of horror in Palestine and Israel. Marking 70 years since the Nakba of Palestinians, the week has seen the continuation of the Great Return March by Palestinians in…