AIJAC/Rambam Programs/2018
  AIJAC/Rambam Programs/2018   | |
|---|---|
| Membership | • Amanda Stoker • Kristina Keneally • Anthony Chisholm • Jonathan Duniam • Sterling Griff |
| A junket "fact-finding trip" to Israel for a large number of selected Australian journalists, politicians, political advisers, government officials, trade union officials, student leaders, and academics. | |
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 through 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]
Senator Amanda Stoker, told how she after the visit had:
a greater understanding of Middle East realities through meetings with quality speakers," was "particularly impressed by the Israeli culture of entrepreneurialism," and was "shocked by the antisemitism and incitement she witnessed in the Palestinian media, which was exposed to her in a meeting with the director of Palestinian Media Watch Itamar Marcus.[4]
AIJAC Rambam Study Program to Israel[5]
- Amanda Stoker, senator, QLD
- Kristina Keneally, ALP (NSW)
- Anthony Chisholm, ALP (QLD)
- Jonathan Duniam, LIB (TAS)
- Sterling Griff, Centre Alliance (SA)
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
- ↑ Senator & union leaders on their visit to Israel, jwire.com.au, 1/8/18
- ↑ https://middleeastrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-mystery-of-other-five.html
