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Executive Council of Australian Jewry
Opposition leader Bill Shorten speaks at the launch of Labor's federal election campaign at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre in Brisbane, May 5, 2019. (Darren England/AAP Image via AP)
May 15, 2019, 1:32 pm
As Australia heads to polls, Labor vows to reverse Jerusalem recognition
But party led by Bill Shorten, which is expected to win Saturday’s federal election, stops short of announcing plan to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state
By Raphael Ahren
Dr. Paul Bauert, a regional president of the Australia Medical Association, speaking with Sky News on February 11, 2019. (Screenshot: YouTube)
February 11, 2019, 8:46 pm
Australian doctor sorry for saying Nazi victims were relieved at lack of escape
Paul Bauert claims Nauru asylum seekers worse off than those who died in gas chambers in Holocaust; Jewish leader says remark expresses ‘disregard’ for history
By henry Benjamin
Australian far-right nationalist and Hitler sympathizer Blair Cottrell in May 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)
August 7, 2018, 6:31 pm
Australian Jewish leaders slam Sky News interview with far-right racist
Hitler sympathizer Blair Cottrell was jailed last year for staging a mock beheading in protest against building of mosque
By JTA
Josh Frydenberg (via Twitter)
September 21, 2015, 7:48 pm
Australian minister sworn in with Hebrew Bible
With kippa on head, Josh Frydenberg takes oath of office on a Chumash given to him by former governor-general
By JTA
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop (screen capture: YouTube/News TvN)
April 17, 2015, 9:49 am
Australian FM heads to Tehran but local Jews, Israel publicly unfazed
Advocacy groups don’t protest Julie Bishop’s historic trip, merely urging her to condemn Iran’s anti-Israel agitation and support for terrorism
By Raphael Ahren
Anti-Israel rally in Sydney, Australia, July 20, 2014. (courtesy)
November 11, 2014, 10:49 pm
Anti-Semitic incidents in Australia up by a third
Jewish umbrella group says 312 attacks recorded, some with physical violence, triggered in part by summer’s Israel-Hamas war
By JTA
A man waves a Palestinian flag waves near the West Bank settlement of Ofra, near Ramallah (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)
April 7, 2014, 11:37 pm
Australia opposition chief: ‘Some’ settlement activity illegal
In not branding all West Bank construction off-limits, Labor’s Bill Shorten draws ire from colleagues, applause from Jewish groups
By Raphael Ahren
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)
January 24, 2014, 3:13 pm
Australian FM’s settlement empathy prompts furious dispute
Julie Bishop’s refusal in Times of Israel interview to brand settlements as illegal provokes bitter row between PLO and Australian Jewish leaders
By Raphael Ahren
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (photo credit: CC BY Australian Civil-Military Centre, Flickr)
June 27, 2013, 11:02 am
Rudd returning as head of Australian ruling party
Replaces Gillard, a ‘staunch supporter’ of Israel
Protesters urging a boycott against Israel in Melbourne, file photo (CC-BY SA Takver/Wikimedia Commons)
June 5, 2013, 10:05 pm
Australian Jewish groups admonish BDS supporters
At the urge of Zionist Council, Melbourne Jewry’s umbrella organization votes to denounce boycott of West Bank goods
Left to right, Raoul Wallenberg at a young age; at age 32 with an aged-processed photo in the smaller box; and an FBI sketch of how Wallenberg may have looked in the 1980s. (Photo credit: courtesy of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children – Horace Heafne and The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation/JTA)
May 7, 2013, 10:26 am
Raoul Wallenberg named Australia’s first honorary citizen
Prime Minister Gillard addresses official ceremony in Canberra
April 25, 2013, 10:41 am
Australia pledges to combat anti-Semitism
Prime Minister Julia Gillard signs London declaration previously adopted by 40 countries
From the WebApril 9, 2013, 11:53 am
Election provisions ‘not perfect’
Australian Jewish News: Early voting facilities to be opened in areas with high Jewish populations before Yom Kippur elections
April 8, 2013, 9:53 am
Facebook removes anti-Jewish page
Action in response to formal complaint by Executive Council of Australian Jewry; 15 more cases pending
April 5, 2013, 3:44 pm
Pro-BDS Aussie Jewish group labelled ‘repugnant’
Umbrella body considers booting the Australian Jewish Democratic Society for its website ‘Don’t Buy Settlements Products’
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