The federal government has every right to push back against event organisers who bring people with objectionable views to this country.
, the country’s oldest and left-leaning newspaper, with the communications minister accusing the paper of “anti-Israeli incitement”.
Before Shaked was denied entry to Australia, it is likely that few Australians knew that a provocatively titled meeting called the Canberra-Jerusalem Strategic Dialogue was being hosted by the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council. Given the title linked Australia’s capital with Jerusalem – a city that Israel claims,, as its capital – it is unlikely that it would have featured a balanced examination of the complex issues facing the Middle East.
There is no shortage of well-credentialed, nuanced and thoughtful Israeli speakers that such a dialogue could have invited. The organisers would have known Shaked’s history before they issued an invitation. So why do it during this highly charged period?Shaked was granted a visa to come to Australia in early 2023, but to steal the words of American author S.E. Hinton: that was then, this is now.
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