Israel set to summon Aust Ambassador over recognition of nation’s capital (Herald-Sun, 19/10/2022)   Israel will summon Australia’s Ambassador to explain the federal government’s decision to reverse its recognition of West Jerusalem as the country’s capital. Israel’s embassy in Canberra was blindsided by the move, which prompted an angry response from Israel’s Prime Minister Yair […]

Jewish groups blindsided by Labor’s reversal of recognition of West Jerusalem as Israeli capital Prominent Jewish community leaders in Australia say Albanese government’s withdrawal of recognition ‘a gratuitous insult’ – but criticism is not universal (The Guardian, 19/10/2022) Several Jewish community leaders say they were blindsided by the Albanese government’s decision to reverse recognition of […]

Israel to summon Australian ambassador over capital reversal (Courier Mail, 18/10/2022, 5.39pm update) The Australian ambassador to Israel will be summoned following Australia’s surprise decision to reverse the recognition of West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Hugo Timms Israel will call the Australian ambassador to explain the government’s decision to reverse its recognition of West Jerusalem […]

Senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute Michael Rubin says it is difficult to understand why Australia would “so willingly haemorrhage its credibility … for essentially nothing” by no longer recognising West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. “What Australia did was … ignored the last 10 years of the peace process and all the progress which […]

FANATICS are like a chill wind. You open your back door a crack and then suddenly they’re all through the house. The Australian Labor Party has learnt this lesson the hard way many times, each one harder than the last. It spent more than two decades in opposition during the ’50s and ’60s when communists […]

The Albanese Labor government’s disgraceful withdrawal of Australia’s recognition of West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is an abject rejection of the historical, moral and cultural basis of our relationship with the Jewish state. It represents the most disgusting concession to Islamist extremists, as exemplified by the enthusiastic support it received from Iran’s proxies in the […]

Australia has quietly dropped its recognition of West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, unwinding language adopted by Scott Morrison’s government after the US moved its own embassy from Tel Aviv. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has retained the bipartisan position that Australia “is committed to a two-state solution in which Israel and […]

The Albanese government has fulfilled a pre-election pledge to no longer recognise West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, reversing the Morrison government’s controversial endorsement. Australia became one of only a few countries to recognise West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in 2018, after a decision by the Trump administration to move the US embassy from […]

Foreign Minister Penny Wong has denied Labor has dropped recognition of West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel instead of Tel Aviv after the DFAT website deleted sentences relating to the previous Coalition government’s policy. Scott Morrison formally recognised West Jerusalem in ­December 2018, despite holding off relocation of the Australian embassy from Tel Aviv. […]