The Australian government has explained its reasons for denying former Israeli minister Ayelet Shaked a visa.
An ex-Israeli minister was barred from entering Australia for a speaking tour on the grounds she could "seriously undermine social cohesion", Immigration Minister Tony Burke said. The visa application by Ayelet Shaked, who was minister from 2015 to 2019, was rejected by Burke, who cited her past public comments about Palestinians.
"If someone previously had made comments about Israelis and had described Israelis using terms like being like an octopus or being like reptiles or something horrific like that, there's no way I'd let them in the country." Burke also said that a former head of the Israeli air force had recently been granted a visa and that Shaked wasn't coming to Australia as a representative of the Israeli government.
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