Australian Jewish leaders criticized the UNESCO resolution denying any Jewish connection to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and asked the Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop to make a statement condemning the resolution on behalf of Australians, Jewish and Christian.Greens leader Sen Richard Di Natale was the exception in criticizing the former Israeli PM and Pres Shimon Peres, eh, during a resolution in the Australian Senate honoring the recently deceased Israeli statesman and Nobel Prize for Peace Laurate.South Australian Senator Stirling Griff from the Nick Xenophon Team referred to his Jewish Lithuanian ancestors, who were murdered during the Holocaust in his maiden speech and highlighted his family history as reason for his stand against persecution of refugee and asylum seekers, discrimination on grounds of ethnicity and/or religion and reasoning for interfering in other countries affairs.
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