AIJAC/Rambam Program/2011
  AIJAC/Rambam Program/2011   | |
|---|---|
| Membership | • Catryna Bilyk • Nicholas Champion • Mark Furner • Joel Gibson • Peter Hartcher • Gerard Henderson • Geoffrey Lyons • Kylie Merritt • Amanda Rishworth • John Rolfe • Brian Thomson |
| 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]
In an after-trip interview with The Australian Jewish News, Senator Catryna Bilyk told how:
Following a meeting with Palestinian Media Watch, Senator Bilyk said that as a mother, a politician and an early childhood educator she was deeply concerned by the brainwashing of Palestinian children by the Palestinian media and the tendency to treat Israelis as dispensible and disposable. Senator Bilyk said that the concept of brainwashing children 'planted seeds of war' and was 'child abuse'."[4]
Politicians
Australia/Israel Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC)[5]
- Amanda Rishworth, Labor, Kingston
- Mark Furner, Labor, QLD senator
- Catryna Bilyk, Labor, Tasmanian senator
- Nicholas Champion, Labor, Wakefield
- Geoffrey Lyons, Labor, Bass
Media
- Gerard Henderson, columnist, SMH ?: "Around this time [11/12] last year, I visited Sderot..."[5][6]
- Brian Thomson — then senior correspondent for SBS (2011)
- Joel Gibson — then opinion editor of The Sydney Morning Herald (2011)
- John Rolfe — The Daily Telegraph senior reporter (2011)
- Kylie Merritt — then Sky News business channel manager (2011)
- Peter Hartcher — The Sydney Morning Herald/The Age international editor (2011)[7]
Known member
1 of the 11 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| Peter Hartcher | Australian journalist |
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
- ↑ Pollies' Israel adventure, The Australian Jewish News, October 21, 2011) quoted in https://middleeastrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2011/10/class-of-2011.html
- ↑ a b http://middleeastrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2011/10/class-of-2011.html
- ↑ https://www.amust.com.au/2023/12/which-australian-journalists-and-politicians-have-gone-on-trips-to-israel-and-palestine/
- ↑ https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/israeli-inertia-on-peace-may-saddle-state-with-old-regrets-20110411-1daxs.html
