It is one thing to take issue with the federal government's position on a resolution to the UN but another to argue it has caused rising anti-Semitic attacks in Australia.
The arson attack on a Melbourne synagogue on Friday marked a depressing new low in the way the conflict in the Middle East has been reverberating through the Australian community.Synagogue to condemn the attack.
Such rhetoric is representative of the non sequiturs that now drive a lot of the political debate about anti-Semitism in Australia. Maimon said on Friday that he was "disappointed" at Australia's position on an UN vote this week but observed the "outrageous attack" on the synagogue was "not a unique phenomenon" in Australia and that the strength of the Australia-Israel relationship could not be measured "based on one or two votes" in the UN.Semitism)," he said.
You do have to wonder whether an Israeli prime minister would have launched so aggressive an attack on a Bob Hawke or John Howard. And you do equally have to wonder whether any of our former prime ministers would have appeared to just wear such an attack as seems to have been the case this week.Along with 157 other countries, including major allies other than the US,
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