Israel is facing a revolt from the Jewish Diaspora.

"Intifada" is an Arabic word meaning "shaking off," as one would violently discard a scorpion. Israel is managing its own "intifada" from within.

I write as a 36-year-old Australian Jew who has recently signed, with 37 Australian Jews,...

The arrival of the new American Ambassador to Australia was breathlessly welcomed by the Australia media pack in late 2009. Jeffrey Bleich, an American lawyer from California, assumed his position in Canberra and was introduced to the country through an interview on the public broadcaster ABC.

After...

The Obama administration's National Security Adviser General James Jones told the "pro-Israel and pro-peace" Israel lobby J Street this week that America believes "Israeli security and peace are inseparable." The comment received a wild cheer, although similar comments were made during the Bush years.

The over 1500 delegates to...

In a collection of just released work by Acehnese writer Azhari, Nutmeg Woman, we are brought into a world before the devastating 2004 tsunami that killed over 220,000 Indonesians. Civil war wracked the province. Indonesian occupation was brutal and fought against the Free Aceh Movement (GAM). Like the Papuans and...