Author: Dr. Sheree Trotter
Dr. Sheree Trotter
Dr. Sheree Trotter is Māori (Te Arawa). She earned her PhD in history from the University of Auckland, is the Director of Indigenous Embassy Jerusalem, a Fellow of London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, and Alumna of the ISGAP-Oxford Institute.
By Dr Sheree Trotter. Australia’s national security and intelligence agency did not identify a heightened threat related specifically to Chanukah in its annual holiday risk assessment issued less than two weeks before the Bondi Beach terrorist attack in December 2025, according to an Australian media report published Friday. The assessment distributed to police and government agencies warned that terrorists could target religious festivals associated with Christmas, but did not single out specific risks to Chanukah celebrations and said violent protests were more likely, Australia’s ABC said. The report by the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) came just days after a Jewish security…
Featured Image: Israel’s First Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion (C) stands under a portrait depicting Theodore Herzl, the father of modern Zionism, as he reads Israel’s declaration of Independence in Tel Aviv, May 14, 1948, in this handout picture released April 29, 2008, by the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO). Photo: REUTERS/Kluger Zoltan/GPO Zion has figured powerfully in the Jewish imagination for millennia, at least from the time of the Babylonian exile, and the pre-exilic Psalms. Enter the “-ism” of the late 19th century, when Theodor Herzl translated that longing into a political movement — Zionism. Even since Herzl, Zionism has…