The ECAJ extends a hearty welcome to Sarit Sternberg, who is visiting Australia from Israel!
MEDIA RELEASE 17 July 2017 Judge Theodor Meron confirms that legality of settlements and recognition of Palestinian state are completely separate issues Former Australian Foreign Minister, Bob Carr, has on several occasions (see example here) cited the well-known opinion of Theodor Meron to Israel’s Prime Minister Levi Eshkol in September 1967, when Mr Meron (now Judge Meron) was Legal Adviser to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in which he concluded that “civilian settlement in the administered territories contravenes explicit provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention”.
The ECAJ welcomes the following statement from seven organisations and Dr Yadu Singh on behalf of the Indian community in Australia concerning NSW Labor’s planned motion to recognise Palestine at its conference later this month.
CLARIFICATION: On 29 December 2016 the ABC published an article entitled “Antisemitism in Australia in 2016: Why Does the Malignancy Persist?” (Article) which was written by Julie Nathan, a researcher and writer employed by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ).
By Alex Ryvchin 17 June 2017 There has long been a conventional wisdom in some foreign policy circles that runs like this: solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and you will harmonise the Middle East, crush the recruitment strategy of jihadists and keep the misery of the modern Arab world far from our screens and our shores.
By Peter Wertheim 6 June 2017 This year is peppered with landmark anniversaries of key events in the history of the conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbours: the charge of the Australian Light Horsemen at Beersheba in 1917; the Balfour Declaration two days later that endorsed the reconstitution of the Jewish national home; the resolution of the UN General Assembly in 1947 that recommended the partition of the Holy Land into a Jewish state and an Arab state; and the Six-Day War in 1967.
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