The Jewish Community Council of Victoria has expressed its strong disappointment in and condemns the actions of a small group of people in our community who have not followed COVID restrictions.
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) has welcomed comments made in Parliament on August 10 by Foreign Minister Senator Marise Payne condemning Iran and Hezbollah.
Julian Burnside with former Greens leader Richard Di Natale during the 2019
election. Photo: AAP Image/Ellen Smith
JEWISH leaders say an apology by controversial barrister Julian Burnside, who last week equated Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to Nazi Germany, is “difficult to accept” after he subsequently repeated the comparison in an email published in
The Australian.
The furore started when Burnside – a former Greens candidate who previously sparked communal anger after sharing an image depicting federal MP Peter Dutton as a Nazi officer – tweeted, “The curious thing about the Israeli stance is that their treatment of Palestinians looks horribly like the German treatment of the Jews during the Holocaust.”
Operation Guardians of the Walls – May’s mini-war bet ween Hamas in Gaza and Israel saw the advent of new drone technology on both sides of the battlefield,
Jerusalem Post columnist, author and drone expert Seth Frantzman revealed at a webinar for the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) on July 15.
On the Israeli side, the author of the recently published book “Drone Wars: Pioneers, Killing Machines, Artificial Intelligence, and the Battle for the Future”, told the audience how Israel had, for the first time in combat, used artificial intelligence to gather real-time data from multiple observation drones into what’s called “drone swarm” intelligence pools, giving the IDF the ability to respond to the source of Gazan rocket fire almost immediately.
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