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Nov 10, 2025, 5:38 AM

The fall Of Amnesty International

There was a time when the name Amnesty International meant something sacred. It conjured the image of a lone prisoner of conscience – a poet in a Soviet cell, a dissident in Burma, a student in apartheid South Africa –...

Sep 17, 2025, 8:07 AM

The world vs Israel: standing against the tide

Cathy Wilcox, cartoonist for Melbourne, Australia newspaper The Age thinks she’s clever, showing a map of the world in which Israel is in blue and the rest of the world in Hamas red. But what she really revealed is...

Aug 22, 2025, 3:48 PM

Australia-Israel: A Relationship at the Crossroads

For decades, Australia and Israel shared a bond that was more than diplomacy. It was a friendship born of shared values, democratic ideals, and a recognition of each other’s struggles and triumphs. Australia, through Labor’s Herbert “Doc” Evatt, played a...

Jul 31, 2025, 1:10 PM

A Moment of Truth—for the World, and for Us

Despite Israel’s extraordinary military achievements—facing down Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas simultaneously—the war still feels unresolved. Because it is. Fifty Israeli hostages remain in Gaza. Families live in torment. Gazans and Israelis are dying every day in the battlefield that...

Jul 1, 2025, 1:17 PM

How the West got the Israel-Iran war so wrong

Winston Churchill from a photo entitled 'The Roaring Lion' (Yousuf Karsh. Library and Archives Canada, e010751643)

While analysts warned of Armageddon, Netanyahu and Trump drew lines in the sand with Churchillian clarity – and the region held

Oct 13, 2024, 11:54 AM

The Rhetoric of Misguided And False Narratives

In the days and weeks following the brutal October 7, 2023, assault by Hamas on Israel, a disturbing narrative began to emerge among certain segments of Western audiences. Instead of recognising the attack as an act of unprovoked terrorism,...

Dec 6, 2019, 1:01 PM

Recognizing Jerusalem: 2 years on

It was in the first week of December 2017, almost a year to the day after being elected President of the Unites States of America, that Donald Trump officially agreed with Congress to formally recognise Jerusalem as the Capital...

Mar 31, 2019, 11:53 PM

Jerusalem Yes. Golan No.

The decision by US President Donald Trump decision to recognize West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and place the US Embassy there was brilliant, but his to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights serve no strategic purpose. How...

Nov 5, 2018, 3:59 PM

A Pittsburgh Memorial Service in Melbourne

Like many people these past days, thoughts have constantly turned to the tragic shootings of 11 Jews in the Etz Hayim Synagogue in Pittsburgh last Shabbat. It has marked for many, years of concern at the rising tide of...

Jul 11, 2018, 10:12 AM

Grounded Realities for Australian Labor

"Social democratic parties have a problem selling opportunity and hope, while conservatives easily sell fear and trepidation." I am paraphrasing two comments delivered at a recent Australian Labor International dinner hosted by Australian Labor’s Opposition Minister for Foreign Affairs,...

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About Me

Adam Slonim is the presenter of the podcast Behind the Headlines and director of the Middle East Policy Forum.