ISRAELI PRESIDENT’S STATE VISIT:

Mounting opposition across Australia to this month’s visit by Israeli President Isaac Herzog has resulted in a significant change of tone from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as to what he thinks the visit will achieve.

The PM has come under enormous flak from pro-Palestinian supporters and even several Jewish leadership groups for his claim that President Herzog’s visit should be seen through the lens of unity and social cohesion and that his presence in Bondi will provide comfort and support to all Jewish Australians.

But at an early-morning media call in his Sydney electorate of Grayndler today, the PM was at pains to explain what he meant by social cohesion.

“To ensure that President Herzog socially coheses with the right survivors of that dreadful massacre on Bondi Beach in December as our wonderful Jewish community enjoyed their Hanukkah festival, NSW and federal police will ensure he only interacts with diehard Zionists like himself,” Mr Albanese declared. “I’m sure that would be the president’s wish..

“Those who want to say hello to the Israeli president will be vetted beforehand by those police authorities to ensure they fully support numerous anti-Palestine statements by President Herzog such as his claim that there are no innocent people in Gaza, his total support for Benjamin Netanyahu that there will never be a Palestinian state in Greater Israel and who agree totally with Herzog’s decision to sign weaponry about to be clearly aimed at innocent Gazan women and children.”

One reporter shouted: “Mr Prime Minister, are you saying there were good and bad Jews on Bondi Beach on that December day?”

Mr Albanese looked momentarily stunned before replying: “There are bad Jews? That’s a bit anti-semitic, isn’t it? With new laws in place, you’d better watch what you say!”

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