On Tuesday 13 July last, Mr. Albanese, the then Federal Leader of the Opposition and Australian Labor Leader, now Prime Minister of Australia, publicly spoke via Zoom to an Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) sponsored event with around 70 attendees, mainly leaders representing the Jewish communal roof bodies, related organizations, and friends. The full video is here:
An interesting commentary is by Anthony Galloway, By Calling out Anti-Semitism on the Left, Albanese has Created Room for Himself, Sydney Morning Herald, 15 July 2021
NSW Opposition Leader and NSW Labor Leader, expressing opposition to the Boycotts Divestments and Sanctions (BDS) anti-Israel campaign, in a statement to the NSW parliament on 11 May 2021:
Foreign Minister of Australia
Labor Shadow Minister, former Deputy Leader of the Opposition, and Former Shadow Foreign Minister. Plibersek Reflects on Israel Trip, Australian Jewish News, 24 February 2014
Former Labor Senator for Victoria (2016-22)
“Israel is the only country in the Middle East with free elections, free media, free trade unions, free civil society, freedom for all religions and freedom for women and for LGBTI people. Yet it is regularly condemned by a [UNHRC] council dominated by countries which have none of these things and which demand a far higher moral standard by other states than they do of themselves.”
Tribute to Kimberly
On antisemitism
Dr Mike Kelly, former Labor MP for Eden-Monaro, 2007 to 2013 and again from 2016 to 2020, talks to the Australia Israel Jewish Action Committee:
The Hon. Peter Baldwin former Labor NSW Upper House MP, 1975 to 1982, and NSW Federal MP from 1983 to 1998, and former Minister for Higher Education and Employment Services, and former Minister for Social Security, etc. on Richo Sky News 10/2/16
Profile of former Labor Prime Minister Bob Hawke, after he died, 16 May 2019:
Former Labor Prime Minister (2010-2013), a strong supporter of a two-state solution, winner of the Jerusalem Prize, 12 October 2014
Michael Easson is the former Secretary of Unions NSW (when it was called the Labor Council of NSW) and Senior Vice President of the ALP, NSW Branch, 1993-95.
The “Jewish Vote” and the 2022 Federal Election, June 2022,
From Bear Pit to Smear Pit, June 2022,
The “Israeli Lobby” Mischaracterises the Diverse, Australian Jewish Community, Pearls & Irritations, June 2022,
Israel and Apartheid: Language Matters, posted 23 July 2021,
Australian Labor and Palestine in 2021, posted 14 April 2021 on the Federal ALP Conference
Cardinal Edward Cassidy AC (1924-2021), Australia’s Nuncio to the World, posted 13 May 2021
Israel, Gaza and Australia, posted 30 May 2018
The Time Isn’t Right for Labor to Recognise Palestine. This Preoccupation is Miscued, The Guardian Australia newspaper, 24 July 2015,
The Middle East Book Every Leftie Should Read, J-Wire, 20 May 2015,
Labor Must Not Turn Its Back on Israel, The Spectator Australia, 15 August 2014,
Why I Could Not Support Bob Carr’s Middle East Resolution, The Southern Highlands Newsletter (ALP newsletter), August 2014,
Thomas L. Friedman is a columnist for The New York Times, former Beirut bureau chief in 1982, Jerusalem bureau chief in 1984, and then in Washington as the diplomatic correspondent in 1989, and later the White House correspondent and economic correspondent. Won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Lebanon) and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Israel). He also won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. Author of From Beirut to Jerusalem (1989), Hot, Flat and Crowded (2008), and many other publications. His website is: www.thomaslfriedman.com
On the Environment, 8 December 2022, Climate Change Will Destroy Arabs and Israelis Before They Destroy Each Other
On Iran, 15 June 2021, The Best Anyone Can Hope For With Iran Is Pretty Bad
On Political Change in Israel, 3 June 2021, Bibi Is Trump and the Israeli Change Coalition Is Biden
On Israel Palestine and the two-state solution, 25 May 2021, How the Mideast Conflict is Blowing Up the Region, the Democratic Party and Every Synagogue in America
On the Clash in Gaza, 11 May 2021, Israelis, Palestinians and Their Neighbors Worry: Is this the Big One?
Dan Andrews and Nova Peris are joint Patrons. Mike Kelly, Eric Roozendaal, and Nick Dyrenfurth are joint convenors.
See: https://www.laborfriendsofisrael.au/ & https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61570276435855
The benefits of Indonesia in the Abraham Accords.
By Daniel J. Samet, Atlantic Council
The community is contending with the collapse of Hezbollah’s ally Bashar al-Assad
In Syria, the hope for a “plural” future. abouna.org