{"id":363960,"date":"2026-02-07T11:54:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T01:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=363960"},"modified":"2026-02-07T11:55:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T01:55:50","slug":"israeli-president-herzogs-australia-visit-sparks-solidarity-and-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=363960","title":{"rendered":"Israeli President Herzog&#8217;s Australia Visit Sparks Solidarity and Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Herzog&#8217;s five-day state visit, invited by Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=anthony-albanese\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Anthony Albanese\">Anthony Albanese<\/a> after the December 14, 2025, ISIS-inspired shooting that killed 16 mostly Jewish people at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=bondi-beach-massacre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Bondi Beach Massacre\">Hanukkah event on Bondi Beach<\/a>, aims to show solidarity with victims and strengthen ties strained by the Gaza war. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pro-Palestinian groups have planned nationwide rallies on February 9, accusing Herzog of complicity in Gaza&#8217;s death toll, citing his past speeches, photos signing artillery shells, and recent damage to a Gaza War Cemetery with Anzac graves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Foreign Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=penny-wong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Penny Wong\">Penny Wong<\/a> defends the trip as support for a community hit by Australia&#8217;s deadliest antisemitic attack, Australia&#8217;s Jewish leaders are divided, with police preparing for large protests amid threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-Palestinian groups have planned nationwide rallies on February 9, accusing Herzog of complicity in Gaza&#8217;s death toll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":363961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,35,858],"tags":[19003,11191,993,19484],"class_list":["post-363960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","category-israel","tag-bondi-beach-massacre","tag-gaza","tag-melbourne","tag-president-herzog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363963,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363960\/revisions\/363963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/363961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}