AIJAC/Rambam Programs/2014
The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) arranges a large number of junkets "fact-finding trips" to Israel for selected journalists, politicians, political advisers, government officials, trade union officials, student leaders, and academics thorugh its Rambam Israel Fellowship Program[1][2] There are a number of associated programs doing very similar things, not all of them arranged by AIJAC, for example the Australia Israel Leadership Forum, the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies Journalists Mission, Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce and etc. For practical reasons, these programs are listed here under the heading Rambam Programs.
Participants
The participants are sent from several programs.[3]
Australia Israel Labor Dialogue (AILD) December
- Paul Frayne (Office of Andrew Giles MHR)
- Kent Rowe (ALP Secretary NT)
- Mitchell Wilson (NSW ALP Organiser)
- Jessica Malnersie (President NSW Young Labor)
- Tim Hammond (barrister)
- Adam Slonim (AILD)
- Kaila Murnain (Asst Federal Secretary ALP NSW)
- Michael Vaughan (Office of Tanya Plibersek MHR)
- Greg Holland (ALP candidate, NSW state election)
- Rose Butler Jackson (Asst Secretary NSW ALP)
- Michael Borowick (AILD Chair & ACTU Asst. Secretary)
NSW Jewish Board of Deputies/AIJAC Journalists Mission to Israel
- David Wroe, Fairfax national security correspondent
- Joe Aston, Australian Financial Review columnist & Nine Network roving reporter
- Laura Jayes, Sky News
- Rowan Dean, The Spectator Australia editor
- and several unknown others.
Australia-UK-Israel Leadership Forum, July
Christopher Pyne, Education Minister
- Michael Danby, MP ALP
- David Feeney, MP ALP
- Others.
Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce
AIJAC Rambam Israel Fellowship
- Craig Kelly, MP Hughes, NSW
- John Alexander, MP Bennelong, NSW
- Wyatt Roy, MP Longman, QLD
- Anne Ruston, SA Senator
AIJJAC Israel Rambam Study Tour, May
- Penny Wong, Lab Senate
- Gai Brodtmann, Lab MP
- Stephen Jones, Lab MP
- Dr Bill Chalmers, Lab MP
- Tim Watts, Lab MP
AIJAC, January
- Tanya Plibersek, Deputy Opposition Leader & Shadow Foreign Affairs
Known members
4 of the 30 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| Gai Brodtmann | Australian Labor politician with close ties to the military-industrial complex. |
| Craig Kelly | Australian dissident MP; COVID-19/Resistance. |
| Kaila Murnain | Australian politician picked as a YGL 2018. In 2019 resigned in disgrace after revelations of party donations from a Chinese billionaire. |
| Penny Wong | Australian foreign minister |
References
- ↑ https://aijac.org.au/about-aijac/
- ↑ Reich, Chanan (2004). "Inside AIJAC - An Australian Jewish Lobby Group". In Levey, Geoffrey; Mendes, Philip (eds.). Jews and Australian Politics. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press. pp. 198–214. ISBN 1-903900-72-7.
- ↑ http://middleeastrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2009/03/ive-been-to-israel-too.html
