The Spectator

I land at Ben-Gurion Airport just before midnight and begin the long ascent to Jerusalem. The headiness hits me immediately and will remain until I depart 10 days later.

Jerusalem Post

The Irish Senate has voted narrowly in favor of a bill that would make it a criminal offense for Irish persons and companies anywhere to import or sell items, or provide services, produced in West Bank “settlements,” as defined by the bill.

Courier Mail

It is often argued by critics of Israel that the British custodianship of the land that is now Israel between the end of WWI and Israel’s declaration of independence in 1948, essentially handed the land to the Jews at the expense of the hapless, helpless Palestinians.

Jerusalem Post

Writing for Bloomberg during the 2014 Israel- Hamas war, Jeffrey Goldberg observed: “Dead Palestinians represent a crucial propaganda victory for the nihilists of Hamas.

The Australian

The image of the invariably smiling Iranian Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif purring at the side of world leaders, together with the election of the so-called “reformist” president, Hassan Rouhani in 2013, have cultivated an image of the Iranian regime as modern, civilized, reasonable and a welcome antidote to the barbarism of IS and other Sunni jihadists.

The Spectator

There has long been a conventional wisdom in some foreign policy circles that runs like this: solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and you will harmonize the Middle East, crush the recruitment strategy of jihadists and keep the misery of the modern Arab world far from our screens and our shores.

Fox News

Vastly outnumbered, outgunned, besieged on every front and overwhelmed by the wealth and diplomatic influence of the Arab States, Israel faced its hour of maximum danger 50 years ago.

The Guardian

While the desire to cripple our protections against public racial vilification appears to be a boutique issue of libertarian theory, the impact of racial hate speech is as broad as it is deeply personal, and anything but theoretical.

The Australian

There is much to celebrate about the visit of Benjamin Netanyahu to Australia; the first time a sitting Israeli Prime Minister has graced our shores. We will hear much about the common bond of nations, of shared values and destinies as liberal democracies and secular states governed by the rule of law.

Sydney Morning Herald

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

ABC Religion & Ethics

The invasion of the Soviet Union, launched on 22 June 1941, was to be a new kind of war, unprecedented in the history of war and conquest. The Germans called it Rassenkampf or race war, in which the primary aim was not territorial gain but the complete annihilation of the political and racial enemies of Nazism.

The Australian

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 for the first time, having left that place as a boy of three, and now a man of 33, my mind returned again and again in abstract and discordant ways to family.

Canberra Times

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

The Spectator

For the Jewish people the tiny sliver of land between the Jordan River and the eastern Mediterranean coast has always been their nation’s birthplace and homeland, the fountainhead of the Hebrew language and Jewish civilisation, thought and culture.

Daily Telegraph

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 Mediterranean Sea from the old north of Tel Aviv down to the historic port of Jaffa.

Daily Telegraph

The Palestinian Minister for Education, Dr Sabri Saidam has criticised a senior Australian delegation for posing “very explosive and very challenging” questions during a meeting last week in the West Bank.

Daily Telegraph

Palestinian cleric Muhammad Salah stands at the pulpit of his mosque in Gaza clutching a large kitchen knife. His hand repeatedly comes down in a violent stabbing motion.

The Spectator

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 claims to be a progressive political party committed to anti-racism and social justice.

The Spectator

Galway, Ireland. They stood huddled in the corner of the lecture theatre whispering ominously. A final pep talk perhaps, or a hasty revision of tactics. Then the leader surged forward, arms flailing, voice bellowing, clad in the colours of Palestine.

The Guardian

On the last day of October I was given the distinct honour of addressing an Australian citizenship ceremony at which almost 100 people, from places as disparate as Cote d’Ivoire and the Czech Republic, pledged allegiance to Australia and vowed to uphold the laws and values of our nation.