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Israeli journalist who said 100,000 Gazans should have been killed after 7 October could be denied Australia visa (www.theguardian.com)

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As first reported by the Nine newspapers, the home affairs minister, Tony Burke, is considering denying Zvi Yehezkeli’s visa into the country based on his previous inflammatory comments.

The TV journalist is due to appear at two events in Sydney and Melbourne in March, supported by the Australian Jewish Association (AJA) and other groups, alongside the former Israeli president Reuven Rivlin.

Yehezkeli, who works on Israeli TV channel i24 as an Arab affairs commentator, is no stranger to controversy in recent years. On air, he said that Israel should have responded to Palestinian militant group Hamas’ 7 October attack by killing 100,000 Gazans.

“I know that those 100,000 will not all be Hamas members,” he said, after estimating Hamas only had around 20,000 members in the besieged strip.

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It is deeply offensive to the spiritual and philosophical practice of Judaism to call for violence as retribution, especially and most heinously mass violence.

https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/

JVP is a proudly Jewish organization committed to building and growing thriving Jewish communities and diverse Jewish cultures. The vast majority of our members and staff are Jewish and, like all Jewish families, we are blessed to have non-Jewish members and staff as well. We welcome Jewish people from all denominations, levels of practice, and affiliation who are drawn to JVP’s values, mission, and work.

All of our work represents a commitment to creating a future in which all Jewish people can live in safety and freedom. Our struggle to build Judaism beyond Zionism is not only an act of solidarity with Palestinians, but also a concrete commitment to creating that future for Jewish people.

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Our safety is bound together with the safety of all people, and none of us is free if we aren’t all free. For more, you can see some examples of how we approach the work of dismantling antisemitism.

https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/09/antisemitism-dangerous/

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Whlie I appreciate the sentiment, sadly the overwhelming majority of Jewish religious organizations fully support Zionism these days.

The victims here are Palestinians not the small remaining percentage of anti-Zionist Jews.