AIJAC/Rambam Programs/2012

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Membership•  Jade Tyrell
•  John Barlow
•  Michael Borowick
•  Barbara Nebart
•  Simon Benson
•  Brooke Corte
•  Judith Whelan
•  Michael Ebeid
•  Bill Shorten
•  Ross Jones
•  Steve Tucker
•  Jeremy Cooper
•  Damon Kitney
•  Paul Fletcher
•  David Bushby
•  Bob Baldwin
•  David Fawcett
•  Teresa Gambaro
•  Luke Simpkins
•  Michael Danby
•  Mark Arbib
•  Joshua Frydenberg
• Greg Sheridan.jpg Greg Sheridan
•  Hamish McDonald
•  Neil Angus
•  Elizabeth Miller
•  Bill Tilley
•  Nicholas Kotsiras
•  Peter Phelps
•  Jonathan O'Dea
•  Mikaela Wangmann
•  Christian Street
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]


Mikaela Wangmann, national women's officer of the National Union of Students, said, 'The experience has made me a lifetime defender of the State of Israel - not in the knee-jerk, geopolitical sense but in the way you would defend any people who are just trying to build for themselves a better world' [while] Australian Liberal Students' Federation president Christian Street said that he feels 'far more able to talk to people about Israel with confidence now that I have some practical experience of the issues at play, the trip was worth it for that alone'.[4]

AIJAC Rambam Israel Fellowship Program

Unionists

Australia/Israel Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) ACTU Fact-Finding Mission

And 14 others

Media

NSW Jewish Board of Deputies Journalists Mission

Politicians

Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce

Australia/Israel Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC)

Australia Israel UK Leadership Dialogue

Politicians

Media

Politicians

Australia/Israel &Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) Israel Study Tour


 

Known member

1 of the 32 of the members already have pages here:

MemberDescription
Greg SheridanInfluential Australian journalist & editor with the Rupert Murdoch-owned The Australian, with possible ties to the Integrity Initiative.
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References

  1. https://aijac.org.au/about-aijac/
  2. 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.
  3. http://middleeastrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2009/03/ive-been-to-israel-too.html
  4. Future in their hands, The Australian Jewish News, September 27, 2013)
  5. https://middleeastrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2013/09/transformative-experience-anyone.html