{"id":83446,"date":"2025-08-18T17:59:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T12:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=83446"},"modified":"2025-08-18T17:59:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T12:59:47","slug":"australia-cancels-far-right-israeli-politicians-visa-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/australia-cancels-far-right-israeli-politicians-visa-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia cancels far-right Israeli politician&#8217;s visa: Here&#8217;s why!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY: The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/hundreds-of-dolphins-stranded-on-remote-australian-beach\/\">Australian government<\/a> revoked the visa of a far-right Israeli politician ahead of a speaking tour on Monday, a move event organizers labeled \u201csatanic anti-Semitism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Simcha Rothman, whose party is part of Israeli Prime Minister<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/netanyahu-provisionally-approves-ceasefire-with-hezbollah\/\"> Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>\u2019s governing coalition, was scheduled to speak at events hosted by the Australian Jewish Association.<\/p>\n<p>But Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said Australia would not accept people who come to the country to \u201csow division.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you are coming to Australia to spread a message of hatred and division, we don\u2019t want you here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAustralia will be a country where everyone can be safe, and feel safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As an automatic condition of the visa revocation, Rothman is unable to travel to Australia for three years.<\/p>\n<p>Australian Jewish Association chief executive Robert Gregory said Rothman&#8217;s visit was intended to &#8220;show solidarity with Australia&#8217;s Jewish community, which is facing a wave of anti-Semitism&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He posted on social media that &#8220;the visit was in no way connected to current events in the Middle East&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Gregory said the cancellation of Rothman&#8217;s visa was &#8220;a diabolically anti-Semitic move&#8221;, accusing the Australian government of &#8220;obsession&#8221; with targeting the Jewish community and Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY: The Australian government revoked the visa of a far-right Israeli politician ahead of a speaking tour on Monday, a move event organizers labeled \u201csatanic anti-Semitism.\u201d Simcha Rothman, whose party is part of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s governing coalition, was scheduled to speak at events hosted by the Australian Jewish Association. But Home Affairs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":83447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10100,15326],"class_list":["post-83446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-australian-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83448,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83446\/revisions\/83448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}