Frank wrote on Nov 19
th, 2024 at 12:15pm:
In any case, the dreadful pogrom on October 7 last year eliminates any doubts. It is a prefiguration of what Hamas would like to do to the entire Jewish population of Israel and ultimately the world were they ever to get the opportunity. Then there is Hamas’s supporter and mentor, Iran, whose Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei predicted that by 2040 “there will be nothing left of the Zionist regime”. More ambitiously, Iranian ambassador to Australia Ahmad Sadeghi wants to ensure “wiping out the Zionist plague out of the holy lands of Palestine happens no later than 2027”. How remarkable, then, the reluctance, indeed refusal, of many Western progressives, including the Australian Greens, to unequivocally condemn these groups and their actions.
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Having been involved in left-wing politics for several decades, I would have to say this alliance between the left and genocidal radical Islamism is the strangest and most disturbing political development in my lifetime.
Peter Baldwin
No Iranian Ambassador to Australi is refused entry but....
The Israeli former interior and justice minister, who was due to attend a security conference in Canberra next week, was told by Home Affairs late on Thursday that her application for a visitor visa had been refused because she could “vilify” Australians or “incite discord”.
The department said that “after careful consideration … a delegate of the minister decided to refuse to grant you a visa”.
Ms Shaked blasted the rejection as “shameful. This political decision of this government is nothing short of a hostile anti-Semitic act,” she told The Australian. “Just last year, I was welcomed as a guest in this country. This decision is an affront to the Jewish community and a stain on the Australian government’s moral standing. It betrays the principles of friendship and solidarity that should bind democracies together.”
Ms Shaked was barred under sections of the Migration Act allowing the minister to refuse to grant a visa if he believes the applicant could “vilify a segment of the Australian community, or incite discord in the Australian community or in a segment of that community”.
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“It is extraordinary that a government that refuses to take any meaningful action against an Iranian ambassador who effectively calls for genocide would act so undiplomatically towards a friend,” Dr Rubenstein said.
“It is not the act of a responsible government, but further evidence of the loss of perspective and principle where the primary concern seems to be shoring up votes, since the horrific terrorist attacks of October 7.”
He said the move appeared to be a “cynical attempt to appear even-handed” following visa refusals for some Palestinians from Gaza.
Comment was sought from Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke.
Opposition home affairs spokesman James Paterson said: “The Albanese government must explain why a former minister in a friendly government and someone they granted a visa to only two years ago is now such a threat they must be banned from Australia.”
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/exisraeli-minister-ayelet-shake...Her sin? Ms Shaked is an outspoken advocate for Israel in the international media, arguing strongly for its right to defend itself following the October 7 massacre.
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