Due diligence, wherefore art thou?
I see the forthright Senator Sarah Henderson has besmirched the Jewish Council of Australia as “a fringe organisation”.
I am sure we would all welcome the chance to examine the due diligence she has undertaken to determine that — for instance — the AJAIC is undeniably a “representative organisation”.
Call me cynical, but I remember a time when the spokesman for the (old, not the current one) Pedestrian Council of Australia was trotted out as the resident expert and mouthpiece for every Australian who walked on the streets. A much-talented man whose name I could never be bothered to remember, he was (much like Alex Ryvchin) a high executive of that august body. None higher: he was, in addition to his role as mouthpiece, the president – or other-titled head honcho position.
While she is at it, Senator Henderson might elucidate us with her views on the offence to mainstream Jewish community of the ABC interviewing anybody from the AJC, given the 500 signatories to the Open Letter repudiating the Zionist actions from concerned Jewish Australian citizens.