Exec­u­tive Coun­cil of Aus­tralian Jew­ry co-CEO Alex Ryvchin said: “Describ­ing rock­et attacks by a ter­ror­ist organ­i­sa­tion as acts of “resilience”, with­out also stip­u­lat­ing such acts con­sti­tute a war crime that endan­ger both Israelis and Pales­tini­ans, is entire­ly unac­cept­able. Resilience is a pos­i­tive virtue, some­thing to be admired and encour­aged. We would nev­er see the crimes of ISIS or Al-Qae­da framed in this way. It is lan­guage we would expect from Al Jazeera or Iran­ian state media not our nation­al broad­cast­er. It serves to glam­or­ise Hamas’s crimes. The fact that the ABC can­not see that even after heavy crit­i­cism from com­mu­ni­ties and oth­er jour­nal­ists is dis­turb­ing.”