Jake Lynch
In Australia last month, Melissa Parke, a former Labor federal legislator and UN legal officer in Gaza, won a libel case against Colin Rubenstein, director of the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council.
He issued a statement in settlement, affirming that she was not, in fact, “a compulsive slanderer, a conspiracy theorist, a liar, a fanatic, or an anti-Semite”.
Ms Parke had taken the action, she explained, “seeking an acknowledgment that I was not any of the things imputed of me” and to resist “the inappropriate weaponisation of accusations of anti-Semitism”.
In March, in the United States, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Jewish National Fund against the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights.
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May 11, 2021 12:31:01 pm
Australia’s Federal Court rejected the first part of a challenge to the Australian government’s India travel ban on Monday.
The ban on travel to and from India was introduced last week by Health Minister Greg Hunt in response to the developing COVID-19 crisis in the country. Any individual found guilty under the determination faces up to five years in jail, a $66,600 fine, or both.
In making the determination, Hunt said that he relied upon the “high proportion of overseas travellers in quarantine in Australia who have acquired a COVID-19 infection in India.” Recently, a number of outbreaks have arisen from hotel quarantine “leakages,” forcing states to temporarily impose increased COVID-19 restrictions.