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A demonstrator is seen waving the Palestinian flag during a rally on May 22, 2021, in Melbourne, Australia.Photo: Asanka Ratnayake/Getty ImagesA demonstrator is seen waving the Palestinian flag during a rally on May 22, 2021, in Melbourne, Australia.Photo: Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images
Journalists in Australia Censured for Demanding Better Coverage of Israel and Palestine
At least a dozen journalists were asked to remove their signatures from an open letter criticizing reporting on the region. Some were also told their contracts might not be renewed.
May 27 2021, 4:54 p.m.
A demonstrator is seen waving the Palestinian flag during a rally on May 22, 2021, in Melbourne, Australia.Photo: Asanka Ratnayake/Getty ImagesA demonstrator is seen waving the Palestinian flag during a rally on May 22, 2021, in Melbourne, Australia.Photo: Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images
FORMER senior White House and Pentagon official David Schenker joined the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) at its latest webinar to discuss “From Trump to Biden: Shifting Policies Towards the Middle East.” Schenker, Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, said Biden had changed Trump’s policy in a number of areas, but retained it in others.
Most obviously, Biden had changed from Trump’s maximum pressure policy on Iran – designed to gain a stronger nuclear deal that also dealt with Iran’s missile program and destabilisation of the Middle East – to negotiations to re-enter the JCPOA nuclear deal.
Photo: AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed
WITH the US on Wednesday voicing disagreement with Human Rights Watch (HRW)’s allegation that Israel is committing “apartheid” against the Palestinians, Australian Jewish leaders say its report is a “textbook example of a biased organisation knowing what conclusion it wants to reach and then writing a report to substantiate it”.
In a report on Tuesday, HRW said that Israel is “committing the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution,” saying Israel had an “overarching” policy to “maintain the domination of Jewish Israelis over Palestinians.”
Israel, which is facing an investigation at the International Criminal Court opposed by the United States, denounced the report and accused the New York-based group of having an anti-Israel agenda. Israel’s ambassador to the United States said the report was full of “lies and fabrication” that were “bordering on antisemitic.”