In a letter to Prime Minister Scott Morrison and to Minister of Home Affairs Peter Dutton last year, the Executive Council of Aus­trali­an Jewry (ECAJ) argued that by listing only Hezbollah’s external security organ­isa­tion as a terrorist organ­isa­tion, “Australia has been endorsing a fiction. Hezbollah leaders them­selves have openly and repeatedly declared that no sub­stant­ive sep­ar­a­tion exists between its different wings”.

Hezbollah controls the major port and airport in Beirut.  After the horrific explosion in Beirut Port on August 4 which killed more than 200 people, Hezbollah is once again coming under inter­na­tion­al scrutiny.  Listen to ECAJ co-CEO Peter Wertheim being inter­viewed on the subject by 2GB’s Michael McLaren.