Arsen Ostrovsky

Arsen Ostrovsky is an Israeli-based international human rights lawyer and Middle East foreign policy analyst

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Antisemitism in Australia is growing and normalised

Again and again, witnesses to the Commission on Antisemitism have described organisations that were indifferent, paralysed or unwilling to act when asked for support

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TOPSHOT - Floral tributes left by mourners are seen at the promenade of Bondi Beach in Sydney on December 17, 2025, in honour of victims of the shooting that took place there on December 14. Australia held the first funeral on December 17 for victims of the Bondi Beach mass shooting, as large crowds gathered to grieve a rabbi slain in the attack. Sajid Akram and his son Naveed opened fire on a Jewish festival at the famed surf beach on December 14 evening, killing 15 people and wounding dozens more. (Photo by DAVID GRAY / AFP via Getty Images)

Mourners gather at a tribute in memory of the victims of the Bondi Beach terror attack, in Sydney on December 15, 2025. (Image: Getty Images)

Australia’s commission on antisemitism reveals the normalisation of a growing evil

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Mourners embrace following the Bondi Beach shootings in Sydney on December 15, 2025. (Image: Getty)

Amid rising antisemitism, the unbreakable solidarity between Jews worldwide

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Protesters outside Flinders Street station during the visit of Israel's President Isaac Herzog in Melbourne on February 12, 2026. (Image: Getty)

After Bondi, the anti-Israel protests against Herzog shame Australia

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Close the UK and French consulates in Jerusalem or admit recognition was a sham

London and Paris can’t recognise a Palestinian state while running a mission to the Palestinians in Israel’s capital. It’s a breach of the law and the Oslo Accords and Israel should shut them down if necessary

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September 26, 2025 11:45

View of the British consulate in Jerusalem, August 16, 2024 (Image: Flash90)

The massacre of the Druze is a moral test: Israel acted, the world failed

The international community cannot continue treating President al-Sharra as a legitimate partner, while turning a blind eye to the atrocities that are being committing in Sweida

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July 18, 2025 10:52

Fighters from Bedouin tribes gather near a burning building in the Druze village of al-Mazraa in Syria's southern Sweida governorate (Image: Getty)

Netanyahu and Trump showed the kind of resolve Churchill himself would have saluted

They struck Iran’s nuclear programme not only in defence of their own countries, but in protection of the free world. Indeed, not since 1940, has so much been owed by so many to so few

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June 25, 2025 15:59