Shane Shmuel

Pauline Hanson proves we have a two-tier senate

29 November 2025 6:23 pm

How convenient that Pauline Hanson is suspended from the Senate just as Black Friday sales kick off. Fingers crossed black…

Jerusalem: always was, always will be Israel’s capital

24 October 2025 4:29 pm

The capital of Israel is Jerusalem, and no amount of diplomatic re-framing can change that fundamental fact. Yet in 2022,…

Manchester and Melbourne: the same hatred, half a world apart

7 October 2025 12:10 am

Manchester and Melbourne sit on opposite ends of the globe, but for their Jewish communities, they have begun to feel…

Albanese’s choice and Australia’s shame

24 September 2025 10:00 am

History will not forget this moment. On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony…

When they came for the Jews – they attacked our shared values

14 September 2025 7:37 pm

Pastor Martin Niemöller’s words from Nazi Germany are uncomfortably relevant: ‘First, they came for the Jews, and I did not…

Local government took a stand against antisemitism. Where was everyone else?

8 September 2025 3:55 pm

The 2025 Australian Mayors Summit Against Antisemitism took place this week on the Gold Coast. A fitting location, ironically. In…

Ed Husic’s greatest hits

3 September 2025 3:23 pm

Labor’s discordant tune on Israel

Not far-right, just fed-up!

31 August 2025 10:52 am

Why Australians want to march with their flag

Albanese betrayed Israel, says Netanyahu after Visa snub

21 August 2025 1:05 am

In a scathing response to yet another Israeli MP having their visa cancelled at the last minute, Israeli Prime Minister…

Albanese’s dangerous dance with Palestine

18 August 2025 6:38 pm

It’s identity politics at the expense of national integrity

Albanese’s longtime dream becomes reality: at what cost?

15 August 2025 12:01 pm

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has realised a long-held ambition. From his early days in politics speaking at pro-Palestine rallies,…

The dangerous delusion behind recognising a Palestinian State

4 August 2025 9:43 pm

The phrase ‘having a screw loose’ has perhaps never been more appropriate than when describing the scramble by some Western…

Australia is losing itself to activism

3 August 2025 10:38 am

The decision, delivered on Saturday morning, came just 24 hours before the demonstration – expected to draw thousands – is…

Albanese’s path to irrelevance

26 June 2025 10:07 am

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is proving to be a leader defined not by vision or conviction, but by a chronic…

Penny Wong’s Middle East policy: out of her depth

17 June 2025 10:54 am

Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s handling of Australia’s Middle East policy has come under fierce scrutiny – and with good reason.…

When antisemitism is tolerated and hypocrisy becomes policy

11 June 2025 11:15 am

Just as in the 1930s, the atrocities of the Holocaust did not emerge in a vacuum – nor did they…

Reflections one year on

9 October 2024 9:35 pm

Today, on the first day of Term 4, my children will take part in the commemoration of the October 7…

Terror threat on the rise

8 August 2024 2:00 am

Prime Minister Albanese and ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess raised the terror threat level from possible to probable. They urged the…

Peter Dutton lands in Israel

30 July 2024 11:50 am

The Hon Peter Dutton has announced his arrival in Israel, where he will meet with senior members of the Israeli…