What do the Australian election mean for the future of Australia-Israel ties?
During Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of Britain’s Labour Party, Australia’s sister Labour Party under then leader Bob Carr, was Britain’s mini-me in terms of its animosity towards the Jewish state. Incoming Australian Prime Minister and Labour Party head Anthony Albanese has a long record of viciously anti-Israel positions and policies. But in recent years, like current UK Labour head Keir Starmer, Albanese has distanced himself and the Labour Party leadership from nakedly anti-Semitic positions in support of BDS and demonization of Israel as a racist state and disavowed them while supporting Australian recognition of “Palestine” and failing to take a stand on actual boycotts of Israelis.
In this week’s Mideast News Hour, I was joined by Australian Jewish pro-Israel activist and author Ron Jontof Hutter and British author Jonthan Neumann, a leading researcher on progressive Jewish politics, to discuss the Labour Party victory in Australia in light of progressive politics in the English-speaking world and the experience of the post-Corbyn Labour Party in Britain.
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