AIJAC/Rambam Program/2018
  AIJAC/Rambam Program/2018   | |
|---|---|
| Membership | • Michael Bachelard • Anthony Chisholm • Adam Creighton • Kate de Brito • Jonathon Duniam • Sterling Griff • Rob Harris • Kevin Hogan • Andrew Holman • Kristina Keneally • Simon King • Mark Ludlow • Mark Mallabone • Nick O'Malley • Danielle Pogson • Leo Shanahan • Amanda Stoker • Renee Viellaris • Rick Wilson • Trent Zimmerman |
| 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]
Politicians
- Amanda Stoker, senator, QLD
- Kristina Keneally, ALP (NSW)
- Anthony Chisholm, ALP (QLD)
- Jonathan Duniam, LIB (TAS)
- Sterling Griff, Centre Alliance (SA)
- Jonathon Duniam — Liberal, senator for Tasmania (2018)
- Kevin Hogan — National, MP for Page (2018)
- KRick Wilson — Liberal, MP for O’Connor (2018)
- KTrent Zimmerman — Liberal, former MP for North Sydney (2018)
Corporate media
- Adam Creighton — The Australian economics correspondent (2018)
- Andrew Holman — then editor of The Sunday Mail (2018)
- Danielle Pogson — Apple News editor (2018)
- Kate de Brito — then editor-in-chief at news.com.au (2018)
- Leo Shanahan — then business reporter at Sky News (2018)
- Mark Ludlow — Financial Review Queensland bureau chief (2018)
- Mark Mallabone — now deputy editor of The West Australian (2018)
- Michael Bachelard — then deputy editor of The Age (2018)
- Nick O'Malley — The Sydney Morning Herald/The Age environment and climate editor (2018)
- Renee Viellaris — then federal political editor for The Courier-Mail (2018)
- Rob Harris — The Sydney Morning Herald/The Age Europe correspondent (2018)
- Simon King — Nine Network editor (2018)
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://www.amust.com.au/2023/12/which-australian-journalists-and-politicians-have-gone-on-trips-to-israel-and-palestine/
