National Press Club invites official accused of making antisemitic remarks Australian Jewish News, 28 September 2023 The National Press Club has invited a United Nations official who has been accused of making remarks using antisemitic themes to give an address. Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur for Palestinian Human...
The Zionist Federation of Australia questioned the National Press Club's decision to invite UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese to speak. ZFA Director of Public Affairs Bren Carlill said, “The fact that a supposedly neutral UN official is being sponsored by an organisation that supports the discriminatory...
The Zionist Federation of Australia’s leadership hailed retiring Victorian Premier Dan Andrews as a true friend of the community. ZFA President Jeremy Leibler said, “Mr Andrews is a genuine friend of the Victorian Jewish community and the State of Israel. From his public statements and...
The roll-out of the ZFA survey about university antisemitism continued over this last fortnight, as ZFA President Jeremy Leibler and AUJS President Alissa Foster went to Canberra to meet with Education Minister Jason Clare, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and over a dozen other members and...
On 13 September, the Australian Government announced targeted sanctions against four individuals and three entities in Iran. The Zionist Federation of Australia welcomed the Government’s targeted sanctions, but called for much tougher action. ZFA Director of Public Affairs Bren Carlill said, “The police spokesperson and Cyber...
Australian Jewish News 14 September 2023 (link) UIA, in partnership with Zionist Federation of Australia (ZFA) and Taglit, are once again excited to be sending 40 young adults on a Birthright trip of a lifetime. Participants from across Australia will embark on a journey to experience Israel...
Almost 200 members of Melbourne’s Russian-speaking Jewish community gathered on Sunday 10 September to celebrate and learn about Rosh Hashanah. The event was coordinated by Anna Maylis, the head of Kangarusski, the Zionist Federation of Australia’s Russian-speaking department. She explained the meaning of...
The ZFA-AUJS survey into university antisemitism was presented to federal Parliament on Monday this week. A dozen MPs and senators gathered to hear ZFA President Jeremy Leibler and AUJS President Alissa Foster speak about the survey results, the motivation for the survey and Jewish student experiences...
Did you see that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas ticked off a long list of antisemitic conspiracies in a speech the other day? He told his learned crowd – and let’s not forget, he has a PhD in this field – that Hitler didn’t kill...
In early August, after a Palestinian opened fire on a Tel Aviv street, injuring a police officer (who later succumbed to his wounds) before being shot and killed himself, the ABC chose to run this headline: “Palestinian man killed in Tel Aviv shooting that leaves another...
It has been an incredible couple of weeks with Rabbi Dr Donniel Hartman visiting our shores. After headlining at Plenary, he spent the next two weeks in Sydney and Melbourne, speaking to Jewish schools, Jewish uni students and youth movement leaders, educators and the lay...
The first week of September 2023 was huge for the Diller Teen Fellows as our eighth cohort graduated. The ceremony was organised by the teens and included speeches summarising their learnings, messages to the next cohort, thanking their families, musical performances and more. As they...
The Zionist Federation of Australia leadership and staff joins the entire Australian Jewish community in mourning the untimely death of Jeremy Jones, a committed and passionate Australian Jewish leader. For decades, Mr Jones served as a lay leader and professional in an incredible number of Jewish...
'Wake up, mate': Fighting antisemitism in Australian education - opinion Jerusalem Post, 5 September 2023 I have been a student in Australia for most of my life. And so when I visited last week and spoke to university students about the rise in antisemitic incidents, I was...
The Zionist Federation of Australia held its Plenary Conference on Sunday, featuring Rabbi Dr Donniel Hartman and Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles. In his opening statement, President Jeremy Leibler noted the political controversies rocking Israel today, and reinforced the need of the Australian Jewish community to...
