Australia’s visa laws allow exclusion on grounds of character and incitement of discord. Those tests raise serious questions about whether Israel’s president should be welcomed while the killing in Gaza continues.

As an indicted war criminal, Netanyahu would be arrested on arrival in Australia and delivered for trial to The Hague. So, Israeli President Herzog is invited as a substitute.

Minister for Home Affairs, Tony Burke told us at the National Press Club on the 16 October last year that he had introduced new visa cancellation criteria, “a test of character, not necessarily a test of criminality “and “inciting discord”

On both grounds – character and inciting discord – Herzog should be barred from Australia. His government and he personally has given us a litany of lies about Israel’s barbaric actions in Gaza. He has approved a Netanyahu Government that is beholden to Zionist fanatics.

Despite what apologists like Herzog say the genocide is continuing in Gaza but at a slower rate. Over 400 Palestinians have been killed since the Trump bogus “peace plan” that rewarded Israeli aggression. Two million Palestinians are living in tents in a cold and wet winter. Israel has just approved 19 new apartheid colonies in occupied West Bank.

Israeli citizens overwhelmingly support the genocide in Gaza. Israel, that Herzog represents, has morally lost its way.

Herzog is the head of state that put his signature on a bomb that would indiscriminately kill Palestinians in Gaza.

In December 2023, Israeli president Isaac Herzog was pictured signing bombs due to be dropped on Gaza.

A test of character that Minister Burke will insist on!

Herzog heads a state that has committed genocide as determined by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry in September last year. An Australian – Chris Sidoti – was a member of that Commission.

Following the October 7 attacks President Herzog said that an “entire........

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