Employment opportunity – Policy Analyst/Staff Writer
February 25, 2014
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC), Australia’s leading professional Jewish public affairs organisation, is seeking a self motivated individual with a keen interest in public policy issues important to the Jewish community…
Statement on Four Corners/The Australian report
February 12, 2014
AIJAC is appalled by the intellectually weak and fundamentally misleading collaboration between the ABC and the Australian, “Stone Cold Justice”, which aired on the February 10 edition of “4Corners”.
The basic claim in this unbalanced and misleading quasi-documentary is that Israel has a new policy of deliberately targetting Palestinian children for judicial abuse and to intimidate them into acting against their own friends and families. Viewers were expected to abandon critical faculties and accept that every word spoken by Palestinians was true, despite a long documented history of Palestinian distortions and fabrications against Israel, and that every counter claim by Israelis should be dismissed.
Ehud Yaari to speak in Melbourne and Sydney
February 6, 2014
AIJAC is proud to present upcoming speaking appearances in Melbourne and Sydney by Israel’s most authoritative and influential foreign affairs analyst, Ehud Yaari.
Yaari is a veteran Middle East commentator for Israel’s Channel 2 news, has written eight books on the Israeli-Arab conflict and has won top prizes for journalism in Israel.
AIJAC mourns the passing of Prof. Barry Rubin
February 6, 2014
AIJAC mourns the untimely passing of Prof. Barry Rubin, who we were proud to have worked with many times over the years.
Barry was a friend to our organisation, both on the professional and personal level. As one of AIJAC’s most popular visiting speakers and contributors to the Australia/Israel Review, he also developed warm, mutual ties with the Australian Jewish community at large.
Statement: Death of Ariel Sharon
January 12, 2014
Ariel Sharon was a towering figure throughout Israel’s history and made powerful, unique contributions to the development of the Jewish State, both as an outstanding, heroic soldier and a transformative, respected – if at times controversial – political figure.
Boldness, bravery and capability were his hallmarks in both roles.
Jeremy Jones speaks at inaugural World Culture Forum
December 4, 2013
Jeremy Jones, AIJAC’s Director of International and Community Affairs, was one of a small, select group of podium speakers at the inaugural World Culture Forum (WCF), an event eight years in the planning which host country Indonesia plans on making an equivalent to the Davos World Economic Forum (WEF).
US counter-terrorism expert Dr. Matthew Levitt to speak in Sydney
November 19, 2013
In partnership with the Central Synagogue and the Zionist Council of NSW, AIJAC is proud to present Dr. Matthew Levitt, Director of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy’s Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence; formerly an FBI counterterrorism analyst; and adviser on counterterrorism to the US State Department.
AIJAC welcomes electronic Australian Visitor Visa lodgement for Israelis
November 14, 2013
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) congratulates the Abbott government for carrying through on a campaign promise, and including Israel on the list of eligible countries for electronic lodgement of the popular visitor (subclass 600) visa applications.
Statement on proposed Racial Hatred Act amendents
November 11, 2013
AIJAC’s comment to the Australian Financial Review [no link available] and the Guardian Australia on November 8 in response to their enquiring about the reports (November 8) concerning the Government plans to amend the Racial Hatred Act:
“We believe the Federal Racial Hatred Act has, overall, contributed constructively to social cohesion and harmony in Australia…
Interfaith dialogues in Madrid, Kiev, Melbourne and Sydney
November 1, 2013
Jeremy Jones AM, AIJAC’s Director of International and of Community Affairs, participated in four quite different, yet all significant, interfaith events in the last two weeks of October.
The busy period began in Madrid, Spain, where he took part in the International Leadership Council dialogue, in which representatives of the Vatican and World Jewry convene every two years to discuss matters of concern and areas for cooperation.
