{"id":813576,"date":"2026-07-21T03:53:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/813576\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T03:53:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:53:22","slug":"australia-news-live-barnaby-joyce-barks-at-dog-liberal-senator-scrutinised-after-one-nation-praise-israel-seeks-to-water-down-criticism-of-labor-draft-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/813576\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news LIVE: Barnaby Joyce barks at dog; Liberal senator scrutinised after One Nation praise; Israel seeks to water down criticism of Labor draft policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbi Levi Wolff, of the Central Synagogue in Sydney, has compared Jewish people\u2019s connection to Israel with that enjoyed by Aboriginal Australians to the land of Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Wolff has just finished giving evidence at the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, where he spoke about the pro-Gaza encampments at Sydney University, saying some protesters had \u201cideologies fundamentally incompatible with Australia\u2019s values\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The exterior of the Central Synagogue in Sydney in October 2025.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/287661d86b849e9f49eea9d038abad3c3da98591.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>The exterior of the Central Synagogue in Sydney in October 2025.Flavio Brancaleone<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWould you agree,\u201d royal commissioner Virginia Bell asked him, \u201cthat people who are protesting on behalf of Palestinians\u2019 right to self-determination are not expressing a value that is inconsistent with Australian values?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wolff replied: \u201cI often hear people say, \u2018I\u2019m not anti-Jewish. I\u2019m simply anti-Zionist\u2019. And in the same breath they deny the Jewish people\u2019s spiritual, historical, and indigenous connection to their ancestral land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rabbi Levi Wolff, of the Central Synagogue in Sydney, has compared Jewish people\u2019s connection to Israel with that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-813576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}