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My Life as a Jew is an honest and very personal book about a growing sense of Jewish identity, but it has its contradictions.

Australia’s new Prime Minister opposes BDS and rejects the apartheid label for Israel, but the Israel lobby is still moving right to accommodate the Australian rightwing and nationalists in Israel.

Readers discuss whether how likely it is that Labor will the federal election

The central thesis of John Lyon’s new book, Dateline Jerusalem: Journalism’s Toughest Assignment, is that journalists covering the middle east are bullied into submission by an extremist “Israel Lobby” who prevents the media from fact-based reporting.

Nine Media published an extract from senior journalist John Lyon's new book Dateline Jerusalem: Journalism’s Toughest Assignment in which he argues that criticism of Israel is not in itself antisemitic.