At an online gathering hosted by the Australian Jewish Association, a former Israeli parliamentarian has made a series of incendiary claims condemned by Jewish and Palestinian community groups.
A former Israeli parliamentarian who once held a position in Benjamin Netanyahu’s government told an online gathering of Australian Jews this week that Israel should have abandoned adherence to international law and reduced Gaza to ashes.
The association’s invitation for Feiglin to speak, at a time when the war has bitterly divided Australian communities andThe Melbourne office of Jewish MP Josh Burns was vandalised this week.Zionist Federation of Australia president Jeremy Leibler denounced Feiglin’s views and the association’s decision to host him.
The Jewish Council of Australia, a self-appointed, expert panel of largely anti-Zionist Jewish intellectuals, accused the AJA in a submission to ainto right-wing extremism of being violently Islamophobic and supporting ethnic cleansing in Palestine. Feiglin spoke from his West Bank home to an online audience of about 500 people on Wednesday in livestreams arranged by the AJA. When asked whether his comments would make life more difficult for Jewish people living in Australia, Feiglin was unapologetic.
He said antisemitism was rising not because of civilian deaths in Palestine, but due to Israel’s inability to win the war. Taken literally, this would expand Israel west to the Nile River and east to the Euphrates. In contemporary terms, it means abandoning the Oslo Accords and the establishment of a sovereign Palestine state and annexing occupied territories seized in 1967 during the Six Day War; Gaza, the West Bank and the Golan Heights.
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