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AIJAC

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AIJAC

@AIJAC_Update

The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council's official Twitter account. aijac.org.au. Retweets do not equal endorsements

Sydney and Melbourne

Joined July 2011

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Nov 1, 2024
This morning, Australian-Jewish chef and former 'Better Homes and Gardens' presenter Ed 'Fast Ed' Halmagyi faced antisemitic abuse at his Sydney bakery, Avner's. Halmagyi’s response to the antisemite: "Today, in your honour, the Star of David flies proudly at Avner's. If you
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Nov 18, 2024
"The Muslim Brotherhood-led army in Sudan has been carrying out airstrikes, killing 80,000 children and women... How many protested about these people? Those children don't deserve any support, any protest, any media attention?" – Amjad Taha, Emirati Strategic Political Affairs
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Nov 20, 2024
"The ICRC lost any appearance of neutrality when it refused to convey medication to Israeli hostages in Gaza according to their families and claimed not to be active there. In Israel, the ICRC is being sued by the families of the hostages for failing in its most basic mandate."
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Mar 5, 2025
"Never did I imagine that on the streets of the United States and different cities around the world, we would see people not condemning Hamas, but celebrating, justifying and cheering on a massacre of Jews." - Israeli and Jewish actress Gal Gadot. Video: @uricohenisrael/X
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Feb 13, 2025
"If we had been speaking about Nazis, about the Japanese empire, about Italian fascists... Hamas is that version of it. They're a Middle Eastern version of a totalitarian, absolutely crazy death cult. Their aim is to destroy the state of Israel, and there's no real negotiation to
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Feb 16, 2025
"Hamas' future outlook on life is a binary situation where they say there's not room for two nations, there is room for one. It is a Sharia-based political entity in Palestine and there's no room for Jews. Now you tell me, is that something that we can negotiate?" Lt. Col.
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Jun 6, 2025
"Sinwar said for years and months and weeks, the day of return is coming. And this is why you saw so much euphoria on October 7th. Because on October 7th, that brutality was the realisation of the Palestinian vision of return." – Einat Wilf, Zionist, feminist, writer, speaker,
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Jul 1, 2025
Dr @EinatWilf warns that when anti-Zionism becomes institutionalised, the result is always the same: a hostile environment where collective Jewish life cannot survive. From Iran to Venezuela, the pattern repeats. Anti-Zionism, she argues, doesn’t coexist with thriving Jewish
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Nov 25, 2023
Israeli Government spokesperson Eylon Levy debunks false claims against Israel
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Feb 17, 2025
Muslim Australian caller 'Taz' has a conversation with Lt. Col. (ret.) Jonathan Conricus – former IDF Spokesperson and Senior Fellow at @FDD – on 3AW Melbourne's Mornings program with Tom Elliott. Watch the full interview: youtube.com/watch?v=1plpgI… Video: 3AW Melbourne /AIJAC.
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May 29, 2025
"Again and again and again, when given the opportunity to have a state of their own – no settlements, no occupation, capital in east Jerusalem, holy sites – they [the Palestinian leadership] walk away, [and] they follow it up with violence. There's no debate and no dissenting
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Dec 5, 2023
"Rape is an act of barbaric savagery against innocent people." Israeli Government spokesperson Eylon Levy
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Feb 16, 2025
"There have been four different peace proposals made by Israel, by different Israeli prime ministers... Sadly, they have been rejected by two Palestinian leaders... Of course, there's no peace offer to be made to Hamas, just like you wouldn't make a peace offer to Hitler or to
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Nov 17, 2024
"In the Middle East, people are celebrating the elimination of Nasrallah – and in Sydney, they are mourning Nasrallah." – Amjad Taha, Emirati Strategic Political Affairs (Middle East) Expert and Analyst, on the fight between light and darkness. WATCH FULL INTERVIEW - Amjad Taha
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