"An Israel lobby also exists in Australia, though it is far less influential than its US counterpart. The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council claims to represent the interests of the Jewish community in Australia and maintains strong ties with the Labor and Liberal parties. Its executive director Colin Rubenstein explained in 2003 that there is an "affinity between Australia and Israel, almost an overlapping destiny". As a strong advocate of the Iraq war, Guantanamo Bay and military strikes against Iran, AIJAC's agenda has dovetailed seamlessly with the Howard Government's views, especially since September 11, 2001. AIJAC funds a travel program to send journalists and politicians to Israel in an attempt to rectify the influence of "the biased media or the agendas run by hard-left organisations", according to program representative Yosi Tal. Deviating from the accepted view results in pressure on editors and political leaders to knock dissenters into line. For example, during 2002 and 2003 the ALP experienced the consequences of dissenting from the AIJAC view. A handful of backbenchers questioned Israeli policy in the occupied territories. A raft of Jewish leaders slammed the party as anti-Semitic. Liberal MP Christopher Pyne, as chairman of the Australia-Israel Parliamentary Friendship Group, told ABC Radio that a motion put forward by MP Julia Irwin - damning the occupation and calling for a secure Israel and Palestine - was "pandering to the pro-Palestinian position". It would appear that even the mild proposition that the Palestinian people should have the right of self-determination is taboo." (Antony Loewenstein ‘Don't let any lobby shut down debate’ http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,18843173,00.html April 18 2006).

"In Australia to launch my new book on the Middle East, for instance, I repeatedly stated that Israel - contrary to the anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists - was not responsible for the crimes of 11 September 2001. Yet the Australian Jewish News claimed that I "stopped just millimetres short of suggesting that Israel was the cause of the 9/11 attacks. The audience reportedly (and predictably) showered him in accolades." This was untrue. There was no applause and no accolades and I never stopped "millimetres" short of accusing Israel of these crimes against humanity. The story in the Australian Jewish News is a lie." (Robert Fisk ‘The United States of Israel?’ http://www.counterpunch.org/fisk04272006.html April 27, 2006).

"Under irresistible pressure from Washington to aid its highly unpopular military expeditions in either Iraq or Afghanistan, America's allies and NATO partners opted for the lesser evil, Afghanistan. That is why 2,100 Canadian troops have ended up in a nation in which Canada has absolutely no strategic, commercial, cultural or emotional interests." (Eric Margolis ‘Canada, Get Out of Afghanistan’ http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis20.html March 13, 2006).

"In one of its first acts in government, the new Conservative regime of Stephen Harper pleased many in the Jewish community with progress on Canada's votes at the United Nations and the decision to halt direct payments to the institutionalized terrorist government of the Palestinian Authority." (Editorial ‘Obligation to protect’ http://www.jewishbulletin.ca/Archives/April06/archives06Apr28-11.html April 28, 2006).

"In 2000, Hollinger sold its major Canadian newspapers for US$2.1 billion to CanWest Global Communications Corporation, which is owned the Jew Israel Asper, who alone owns over 60% of Canada’s newspapers and other media outlets, including 14 metropolitan dailies and 128 local newspapers across that country." (Thomas Sparks Jewish Control of the British Media May 2002 Update http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/shadow/jewishmedia_uk.shtml). Hollinger International Inc owns the Jerusalem Post, the Jerusalem Report, Shaar Lamatchil (Israel), This Week in Israel, the Student Post (Israel), and the "Christian Jerusalem Post".

"In Canada the sixth biggest economy in the world, Jewish-Canadian billionaires represent 49% of the Canadian stock market. And Jewish-Canadians of wealth are notorious heavyweights for political donations in U.S. politics, in effect helping the cause for the Zionist entity, through the military might of the U.S." (Michael Santomauro ‘An Open Letter to Professor Dershowitz’ http://www.tadp.org April 20, 2006).

93% of the entire territory of the jews-only state within the borders of 4 June 1967 are defined as "national lands" and are legally designated for "Jews only". This land is owned by the jewish nationa fund. The jnf is also an american and canadian organization. In canada this racist organization is registered as a charity and has tax exempt status.

The jews-only lobby in canada argues that after al quaeda's threats to attack what jewish racists call "diasporan jews" the canadian government should ensure more protection for the jews living in canada. "But there should also be a new commitment from the governments of Canada ­ federal, provincial and municipal, as appropriate ­ to assist the Jewish community to protect itself against, God forbid, domestic incidents of violence. Meanwhile, Canadian governments should be playing a role in alleviating the financial and other burdens of protecting communities who are the subject of explicit threats." (Editorial ‘Obligation to protect’ http://www.jewishbulletin.ca/Archives/April06/archives06Apr28-11.html April 28, 2006). In addition, it argues that critics of the jews-only state in palestine are encouraging terrorists to attack "diasporan jews" and should thus moderate, or desist from, such criticisms. "Now, when we have explicit, if vague, threats to the security of overseas Jews, Israel's critics must be held to a higher standard than before. The issue is not so much the veracity of the accusations ­ criticism of Israel, like certain accusations against Jews throughout the ages, are usually grounded in a seed of truth ­ but they have often been misused by malcontents to sway the ignorant. The fear, of course, is that people who are inclined toward violence will be emboldened by the hateful imagery and language employed by otherwise peaceful anti-Israel activists. As unpleasant and unfair as this connection may seem, it is rejected only by people whose concern for the safety of Jews is eclipsed by their dislike of Israel. This is the core failure of the anti-Zionist movement in Canada (as well as Europe and elsewhere)." (Editorial ‘Obligation to protect’ http://www.jewishbulletin.ca/Archives/April06/archives06Apr28-11.html April 28, 2006).

"What is worrying is that the heavy-handed lobby pressure tactics that have long cowed the US Congress are now apparently being felt in Europe. Until 1967, Israel relied heavily on European support and weapons. But since the occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, European attitudes began to evolve. In its 1980 Venice Declaration, the European Community (as the EU was then called) recognised for the first time the right of the Palestinians to self-determination, with all that entails. This was a major policy shift.

"French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, under fire for carrying out an order from President Jacques Chirac to investigate neo-con Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy's financial sources and discovered links to a Luxembourg-based clearinghouse called Clearstream. Sarkozy was suspected of illegally receiving kickbacks involving the sale of six French frigates to Taiwan in 1991. According to informed French and Italian sources, Sarkozy, who is being defended by the global neo-con media as the victim of a "smear campaign," appears to be up to his neck in suspicious foreign financial connections and that is what prompted DeVillepin, Chirac, and French intelligence to investigate the right-wing and vociferously anti-Arab and anti-Muslim Interior Minister. Sarkozy is suspected of links to the same Russian-Israeli mafia syndicates that have been connected to Jack Abramoff, Dick Cheney, and leading Israeli politicians. In fact, the recent attacks on DeVillepin from the neo-cons are said to have more to do with his opposition to any attack on Iran than on Luxembourg money tranches. European intelligence sources report that the attacks on DeVillepin (and Chirac) and the recent tirade against Russian President Vladimir Putin by Vice President Cheney, are all part of a coordinated attack against European leaders who oppose military action against Iran. With the loss of Italy, the neo-cons are trying to establish new bridgeheads in France and Russia. What has particularly piqued the neo-con anger with deVillepin is this recent quote from the French Prime Minister concerning an attack on Iran, "My conviction is that military action is certainly not the solution . . . We have already lived through this type of scenario and we know that not only does it settle nothing, but it can raise risks. We have seen this in the most clear way with Iraq." The neo-cons are using Clearstream and their man Sarkozy to hammer DeVillepin as a way of clearing the path for Sarkozy to become the next French President. Neither DeVillepin, Chirac, or the French intelligence services, all aware of Sarkozy's connections to the neo-cons, want to see the Interior Minister move into the Elysee Palace and steer France into the neo-con camp. DeVillepin is refusing to resign because he holds the trump card on Sarkozy and his friends, which include members of the neo-Nazi French National Front. Chirac recently said there are legitimate reasons to investigate Clearstream and lashed out at the neo-cons and their fellow travelers who are trying to sink the investigation of Sarkozy. Chirac said, ""Democracy is not the disrespect and exploitation to outrageous lengths of legal procedures under way."" (Wayne Madsen ‘French Prime Minister under full scale neo-son attack’ http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/ May 11, 2006).

"The main editor of the first channel, Clemente J Mimun is an Israeli citizen, Canale 5 (the major private channel) has as it’s former major news editor Enrico Mentana, who now presents the channel’s only news talk show, a self defined "secular left Jew". La7 the third pole, has as its news desk Gad Lerner (another Israeli citizen) and Giuliano Ferrara (who sponsored the Pro-Israel march a few months ago). The newspapers are pretty much the same, the most important national paper, La Repubblica is owned by a Jewish family, the other major paper Corriere della Sera is directed by Paolo Mieli (former director of the first National television channel) who has expressed that he was a victim of anti-Semitic smears (a graffiti in an elevator) during the period of his nomination to direct the entire agency of Italian national TV." (‘Pro-Israeli bias in Italy is not an exaggeration, it is a program’ http://peacepalestine.blogspot.com/2006/03/pro-israeli-bias-in-italy-is-not.html March 4th 2006).

"Among the threats are a boycott of Jewish and American tourism to Mexico. The Zionists Jews forced Mexico to rescind its vote on a U.N. resolution that equated Zionism with racism back on November 10, 1975. The U.N. Security Council Resolution 3379 concluded that "...Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination" and Mexico was one of seventy two countries that voted to pass the resolution. The resolution infuriated World Jewry and they embarked on a campaign to rescind the resolution. Attesting to their international hold on the world economy and international political power, they where able to subjugate the economies of many of the countries that voted in favor of U.N. Resolution 3379. With Mexico, they were able to bring their tourism industry to its knees. Acapulco and Cancun became virtual "ghost towns". On December 16, 1991, the United Nations was forced to have a new vote and Resolution 3379 was rescinded."