The Israel Connexion

Avi Melamed  is the founder and CEO of  Inside The Middle East | Intelligence Perspectives [ITME]   and he says to understand Israel, we must understand the whole Middle East. Avi brings to the table apolitical Middle East education, intelligence-based frameworks for critical thinking and media literacy engaging with Middle East experts absent from Western discourse....

Avi Melamed  is the founder and CEO of  Inside The Middle East | Intelligence Perspectives [ITME]   and he says to understand Israel, we must understand the whole Middle East. Avi brings to the table apolitical Middle East education, intelligence-based frameworks for critical thinking and media literacy engaging with Middle East experts absent from Western discourse....

I spoke with  Meyer Levinson-Blount , who directed the film  Butcher's Stain , which won a Silver Medal in the Narrative category at the 2025 Student Academy Awards. Additionally, the short film earned a nomination for Best Live Action Short at the  2026 Academy Awards . The 26-minute film was created by Levinson-Blount while at Tel Aviv University's Steve Tish School...

Gidon Katz, an expert in marketing Israeli real estate to the global Jewish community for close to three decades, and I met up with him at an informational event that took place at Caulfield Shule in Melbourne earlier this year. Support the show: https://www.j-air.com.au/get-involved/membership/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I spoke with Kate Mannix and Julie Szego  about how our public broadcasters have caused much angst for our Jewish community and discussed how the ABC and SBS must bear some responsibility for fuelling antisemitism in Australia by their slanted coverage from Israel-Palestine in particular. Kate Mannix  is a former senior researcher for ABC Television, including on the Compass program. She...

I spoke with Kate Mannix and Julie Szego  about how our public broadcasters have caused much angst for our Jewish community and discussed how the ABC and SBS must bear some responsibility for fuelling antisemitism in Australia by their slanted coverage from Israel-Palestine in particular. Kate Mannix  is a former senior researcher for ABC Television, including on the Compass program. She...

Jeff Sparrow is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne. He has written an article titled ' How to Sell a Genocide exposes the double standards of reporting on Gaza ' and to discuss it I have invited  Professor Timothy Lynch , professor of American politics and co-chair of the political science discipline in the Faculty of Arts at the...

Jeff Sparrow is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne. He has written an article titled ' How to Sell a Genocide exposes the double standards of reporting on Gaza ' and to discuss it I have invited  Professor Timothy Lynch , professor of American politics and co-chair of the political science discipline in the Faculty of Arts at...

The ADL's Deputy National Director  Kenneth Jacobson  considers how to best tackle antisemitism by examining what Israel is doing to improve the condition of Jews around the world, and what should it be doing differently. He has written that  Israel should avoid using antisemitism as political tool and more recently Is America’s Golden Age of Jewish Life Unraveling? and&n...

Nissan Ratzlav-Katz  is an experienced marketing communications professional and a published columnist. The views are his own. The facts are everybody's. Click to read  Letters from the Homeland  by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz, a substack publication. Nissan joins me in providing a historical sketch about Hezbollah and Hamas summing up what Israel needs to do to manage the threats from thes...

Itai Ater  is a Professor of Economics at the Coller School of Management at Tel Aviv University, a Research Fellow at CEPR, and head of the Israeli Economists’ Forum for Democracy. He holds undergraduate degrees in law and economics from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a PhD in economics from Stanford University. Over the years, he has also been a visiting professor at University of...

Mohammad Darawashe  leads  Givat Haviva’s strategic development  with empathy, innovation, and a lifelong dedication to advancing an equal and shared society in Israel. Currently pursuing a Ph. D., he holds a Master’s in Conflict and Peace Studies from the University of Haifa and a Bachelor’s in English and Political Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....

Eleven Australians took part in the Gaza flotilla charade and following Ben-Gvir's appalling behaviour dealing with the detainees in Israel the story grew horns. Avi Abelow  who calls himself the  Pulse of Israel  wrote about the outfall from the Gaza flotilla with  an illuminating perspective .  "The reaction from Western governments, media outlets, Jewish organizati...

Shamai Glick  has come from the high-tech sector. In recent years, he has served as the CEO of the  B'Tsalmo . He has led the struggle against "terror culture" and inspired the closure of the Al-Meydan Theater, the Barbour Gallery, and the Negev Coexistence Forum, when he argued that they spread hatred and evil against Israel. [Full interview} Support the show: https://www.j-air.com.au/g...

Nissan Ratzlav-Katz  is an experienced marketing communications professional and a published columnist. The views are his own. The facts are everybody's. Click to read  Letters from the Homeland by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz, a substack publication. ( 0:31-31:08 ) Shamai Glick  has come from the high-tech sector. In recent years, he has served as the CEO of the  B'Tsalmo . He has...

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner  is an Israeli attorney, human rights activist, and the founder of the civil rights organization Shurat HaDin – Israeli Law Center. She has been at the forefront of defending Israel’s interests on the global legal stage. She has spearheaded efforts to counteract campaigns that seek to delegitimize Israel and disrupt its security. Her innovative approach inv...

The Australian Zionist Healthcare Alliance  (AZHA) is a specialized advocacy organization launched in October 2025 to combat rising antisemitism, anti-Zionism, and harassment within Australia's healthcare sector. AZHA supports Zionist healthcare professionals, students, and patients, addressing discrimination across all health disciplines. I will speak with psychiatrist  Doron Samuell&nb...

Dr Andrew Thomas  is a lecturer in International Relations and Middle East Studies at  Deakin University  specialising in Middle East politics and non-Western international relations theory. We will discuss Israel's war in Lebanon, the state of play with Iran,  the stalemate in Gaza and take a look at how the Palestinian Authority is tracking. ( 0:31-30:04 ) Project A...

In early March an event  ‘Settler colonialism’: What it can tell us about the conflict in Israel/Palestine    took place in Adelaide.   Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, was in conversation with Henry Reynolds, a historian of frontier violence in Australia, and Lana Tatour, a proponent of settler colonialism. The...

Dr Martin Sherman  spent seven years in operational capacities in the Israeli defence establishment. He is the founder of the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a member of the Habithonistim-Israel Defense & Security Forum (IDSF) research team and a participant in the Israel Victory Project. We discuss Israel's strategy in its multi-faceted war involving Iran, Lebanon and Gaza...

Israel's new ambassador to Australia  Dr   Hillel Newman  has hit the ground running and seems determined to give the Australia-Israel relationship a fillip. Today he addressed the  National Press Club in Canberra much to the consternation of the Greens and their anti-Israel allies. ( 0:32-31:00 ) Deborah Danan is an Israeli journalist and communications consultant who gives us...

ASMEA and SPME held the webinar " The Arab Case for Israel " that was led by  Hussain Abdul-Hussain , a research fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD). He is the author of the book  The Arab Case for Israel . He champions immediate, unconditional, and comprehensive peace between every Arab nation and the Jewish state.  Before the State of Israel eme...

The war between the US-Israel alliance and the Islamic Republic of Iran rages on and one facet of it has played out on Australian soil with the case of some of the Iranian female soccer team members who sought asylum in Australia, but under coercion most have changed their minds. I play some commentary about this fiasco from ABC sports commentator Tracey Holmes. (0:39-3:36) Mahdi Athari is an Iran...

Christopher Allen is the national art critic for Culture at The Australian and has been writing for the newspaper since 2008. He is an art historian and educator, teaching classical Greek and Latin. He has written an edited several books including Art in Australia and believes that the history of art in this country is often underestimated. We discuss his article that was published in The Australi...

Christopher Allen is the national art critic for Culture and has been writing in The Australian since 2008. He is an art historian and educator, teaching classical Greek and Latin. He has written an edited several books including Art in Australia and believes that the history of art in this country is often underestimated. We discuss his article that was published in The Australian " How a plague...