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 come together to discuss the issues facing Israel and […]

On Friday 18 August, ABC News changed a misleading headline on a news story regarding the terrorist attack which killed an Israeli security guard in Tel Aviv, following multiple complaints from Jewish and Zionist organisations. The story was originally posted on Sunday 6 August, under the headline “Palestinian man killed in Tel Aviv shooting that […]

Editor-in-Chief of the Jerusalem Post Avi Mayer and Member for Macnamara Josh Burns MP addressed the Zionist Federation of Australia’s Executive meeting on Monday 25 July. The meeting was held the day after the Israeli Knesset passed the first major judicial overhaul law, about the reasonableness test. (The ZFA’s statement on that law is here.) In […]

Against the background of increasingly heated internal opposition, the direction of the Israeli government is becoming clearer. Depending on one’s political point of view, Prime Minister Netanyahu is either unable or unwilling to resist the internal forces within large sections of his party and coalition, or is proactively pushing his agenda. Whilst the government has […]

Security. A single word, which depending on one’s viewpoint, has many different meanings, interpretations and derivations. Prime Minister Netanyahu is a security hawk with his prime focus being twofold: – Iran generally, as well as stopping Iran from getting nuclear capability. – Closing the gap towards formal overt ties with Saudi Arabia. In both of […]

The Zionist Federation of Australia expressed its deep disappointment in the Victorian Labor state conference’s resolution on Palestine. ZFA President Jeremy Leibler said, “It is a truism that if you reward bad behaviour, you’ll get more of it. From its support for terrorism, its rejection of negotiations and its promotion of vicious antisemitism, the Palestinian […]

The Zionist Federation of Australia welcomed the Government’s decision to introduce legislation to ban the Nazi symbol. ZFA President Jeremy Leibler said, “The Hakenkreuz is a universal symbol of murder and hatred, and it’s used by extremist organisations to intimidate minorities and recruit members. Violent right-wing extremism is rising in Australia. Banning the symbol sends […]

Having passed through the memorial and holiday period, Israel’s external and internal challenges remain the same, with some coming sharper into focus during the current round of rocket attacks on Israel. Relations with the United States continues along a two-track paradigm under the Biden administration, which sends multiple mixed signals. On the one hand supporting […]

The Zionist Federation of Australia deplores the onslaught of rockets against Israel and stands by Israel’s right to defend itself. ZFA President Jeremy Leibler said, “The Australian Jewish community stands by Israel’s unequivocal right to defend itself. Less than a week before this operation began, Islamic Jihad fired over a hundred rockets at Israeli cities. […]

1:00pm AEST, 12 May  Important updates  803 rockets have been fired towards Israel over the past two days.  An Israeli from Rehovot has been killed.  There were two barrages yesterday evening in Israel, though no rockets have been fired for several hours.  About 20 per cent of these rockets have landed inside Gaza, causing Palestinian […]

The Zionist Federation of Australia strongly condemns the back-to-back Palestinian terrorist attacks which claimed the lives of three innocent people and injured at least eight more. ZFA President Jeremy Leibler said “We are devastated to, yet again, emerge from Shabbat to the news of multiple terrorist attacks in Israel which killed two innocent Israeli sisters […]

The Zionist Federation of Australia expresses solidarity with the victims of Malka Leifer. ZFA President Jeremy Leibler said, “We hope that the verdict brings much needed closure to Elly, Nicole and Dassi who bravely fought for justice for many years. It also brings closure for the Australian Jewish community who have supported the brave survivors’ […]