The former Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr has been strongly criticised by a NSW Labor leader and Jewish leaders for his statement during a Sky News interview that Israel should be charged with “war crimes” over the shootings at the border with Gaza, and that the Labor Party National Conference will inevitable pass a resolution that a future Labor Government recognise a Palestinian State with or without an agreement with Israel. The Victorian Parliament and the Jewish community held its annual Yom Haatzmaut tribute and a lechaim toast to Israel on the 70th Anniversary of Israel’s independence and heard the Labor Premier Daniel Andrews and opposition Liberal leader Matthew Guy recall their recent visits to Israel nad admiration and praise for the Jewish State, whilst the Israeli ambassador to Australia Mark Sofer boasted of his county’s great technological and other achievements in just 70 years of existance. Australian Jews expressed their disappointment over yet another two week delay in the extradition court hearing in Israel of Malka Leifer, the former Adass-Israel school principal wanted in Victoria to stand trial over 74 accusations of sexual abuse of pupils at the school before her flight to Israel in 2008. The Australian Union of Jewish Students protested and demanded an apology for the publishing in the Sydney University student newspaper Honi Soit, a front-page photo of the young Lebanese woman Hamida al-Taher, holding a rifle in the photo and an editorial article about her suicide bombing, which killed 50 people including Israeli and Southern Lebanese soldiers, whilst denigrating the Israeli winner of Eurovision, as a rep of oppressors of Palestinians and not even a real country.
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