AIJAC angered and disappointed at “cowardly” and “discriminatory” actions of the 2024 Frontline Mental Health Conference
March 4, 2024 | AIJAC
The management of the Frontline Mental Health Conference aided and abetted the discriminatory intent of a small number of pro-Palestinian activists determined to target any and all Israelis for exclusion – even if they never say so in so many words.
AIJAC disappointed with Prime Ministers’ statement on Rafah that appears “divorced from reality”
February 15, 2024 | AIJAC
The PMs need to decide whether they want Gaza and Israel to have a future free of Hamas on which a two-state resolution can be built or whether they want Israel to refrain from attacking Rafah even after making and implementing a detailed plan to evacuate civilians from there. Trying to have it both ways reflects a disturbing lack of realism.
AIJAC pleased ICJ permitted Israel’s just war of self-defence against Hamas to continue
January 27, 2024 | AIJAC staff
Yesterday’s decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in its preliminary orders regarding South Africa’s case against Israel was a mixed result, but the most important aspect was that there was no order for Israel to cease its just military campaign in Gaza.
AIJAC welcomes new Australian sanctions targeting Hamas, Hezbollah, PIJ and the IRGC
January 23, 2024 | AIJAC staff
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) welcomes the announcement of additional Australian sanctions targeting terrorism financing, and listing 12 persons and three entities linked to Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and, most importantly, their overseer, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps – Qods Force (IRGC-QF).
AIJAC disappointed FM Senator Penny Wong not visiting Israeli communities devastated on October 7
January 15, 2024 | AIJAC staff
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) expressed its disappointment that Foreign Minister Senator Penny Wong won’t be visiting any of the southern Israeli communities devastated in the October 7 Hamas atrocities during her current visit to the country.
South Africa’s ICJ “genocide” case against Israel “cynical and politicised act of lawfare”
January 12, 2024 | AIJAC staff
South Africa’s contention in its International Court of Justice (ICJ) claim – that Israel’s actions to combat terror in the wake of the October 7 wave of unprovoked mass murder, rape, torture and kidnapping directed largely against civilians inside Israeli territory amount to the crime of genocide – is clearly absurd
AIJAC questions Australia co-signing “counter-productive” statement on settler violence
December 18, 2023 | AIJAC staff
Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council Executive Director Dr Colin Rubenstein has questioned Australia’s co-signing a statement with other nations, including France and the United Kingdom, that condemned what they claimed was “record high” violence from extremist settlers
AIJAC endorses efforts to urge International Committee of the Red Cross to demand access to Israeli hostages
December 15, 2023 | AIJAC
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) today endorsed the grassroots Australian effort urging Red Cross Australia to lobby its…
Statement regarding Australia/Canada/New Zealand joint statement and UN vote on the Israel/Hamas conflict
December 14, 2023 | Colin Rubenstein
By effectively calling for an end to the military pressure on Hamas, but not demanding Hamas be disarmed, this resolution makes it much less likely that the “sustainable ceasefire” Australia appropriately supports will ever be achieved.
AIJAC deeply disappointed by dropping of investigation into Sydney hate-speech clerics
December 7, 2023 | AIJAC staff
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) today expressed its “deep disappointment” and “frustration” at the news that State and Federal police have dropped their investigations into hate speech by several clerics in southwest Sydney in the wake of the October 7 wave of mass-murder attacks in Israel.
