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Apartheid-like situation of Palestinians in Lebanon reasserted – no-one notices
The apartheid-like reality which exists for the approximately 180,000 Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon and their descendants was highlighted yet again earlier this month when a decision from last year that would have significantly improved their professional employment opportunities was suddenly reversed…
Read MoreAIJAC welcomes expanded Hamas listing
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC welcomes the Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews’ announcement that Australia will include the entire Hamas organisation on Australia’s terrorist list.
Read MoreIsrael steps up efforts to confront Jewish extremist violence against Palestinians in the West Bank
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and key members of his unity Government have vowed to tackle an apparent spike in violence against West Bank Palestinians by masked Jewish extremists – many of them associated with illegal settlement outposts manned by zealots known as the “Hilltop Youth”.
Read MoreAmnesty’s Israel ‘apartheid’ report sets back Palestinians’ struggle
Unfortunately, this Palestinian “success” with Amnesty will not only likely damage the standing of a once widely respected human rights NGO, but set back, rather than advance, hopes for Palestinians to achieve their legitimate aspirations.
Read MoreThe self-destruction of an NGO: Amnesty International has form
Amnesty International has become the latest non-governmental organisation (NGO) to trash its own brand as a supposedly credible and impartial human rights group, with the release of a report that is a factually and legally flawed hit job on Israel.
Read More‘Apartheid’ accusation against Israel puts NGOs on road to irrelevance
The apartheid smear against Israel is absurd, but it’s important to recognise how beating the apartheid drum cynically serves the political ends of the NGOs and the boycotters, like two sides of the same coin.
Read MoreAIJAC calls new Amnesty report “dangerous”, “libellous” and “an intellectual crime against truth, and against genuine international law”
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) today said a new report from Amnesty International, to be officially released tonight but already widely circulated, accusing Israel of “Apartheid” is “dangerous”, “libellous” and “an intellectual crime against truth, and against genuine international law.”
Read MoreEditorial: Farce at a Festival
Even before this year’s Sydney Festival opened, Australians were treated to farcical political theatre, courtesy of a staged disinformation campaign by local anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement activists.
Read MoreLitzman plea deal “very disappointing”
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council is very disappointed with the plea bargain to end the criminal trial of former Israeli deputy health minister Yaakov Litzman.
Read MoreIsrael boycott bandwagon fails to see functioning democracy
It’s no surprise to see Greg Barns back on the Boycott Israel bandwagon, making false and easily disprovable claims of Israel being an Apartheid state to justify his support for the insidious Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against the Sydney Festival.
Read MoreMisguided representation of Israeli-Palestinian relations has no place in our society
The Australian campaign to shut doors to Naharin, rather than embrace a potential ally for Palestinian rights, says far more about the blinding, destructive obsessive animosity guiding the BDS campaign than about Israel’s alleged failings towards Palestinians. It is a deeply offensive obsession which has no place amidst the celebration of artistic creativity and diversity that the Sydney Festival represents. Patrons of the arts deserve better than the bullies of BDS.
Read MoreAIJAC welcomes Sydney Festival repudiation of demands by BDS movement
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) appreciates the very important stance of the Sydney Festival in its continued support of the dance performance Decadance and its public repudiation of demands by members of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) to divest funding received for it from the Israeli Embassy.
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