Labor has lost its candidate for Curtin, Melissa Parke, following revelations that she had criticised Israel in a speech she had previously made on Middle Eastern politics. Criticising Israel is hardly the thing Labor wants to be known for when it is seeking to defend..…

Most of the settlements that sprung up in those early years were in the Jordan Valley, and were in fact established by the Labor Zionists of the Mapai party. . . . This last point is significant: there has never been a debate in Israel over establishing settlements, and every single..…

By supporting human rights, Presently it appears that in Australia all of Coalition candidates and most of Labor candidates  in practice reject the proposition of one-person-one-vote-violating Apartheid Israel the only candidates supporting one-person-one-vote are Greens, Socialists and..…

Now the stage is wide open for the ultra-orthodox parties, Shas, which now has eight seats, and United Torah Judaism, with seven seats to help define the new normal in Israel. . The Israeli left – if it was ever deserving of the name – received a final blow; the once prominent Labor..…