{"id":365705,"date":"2026-02-10T18:47:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=365705"},"modified":"2026-02-10T18:47:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:47:53","slug":"albaneses-phrasing-on-herzog-visit-draws-antisemitism-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=365705","title":{"rendered":"Albanese&#8217;s Phrasing on Herzog Visit Draws Antisemitism Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=president-herzog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"President Herzog\">Herzog&#8217;s<\/a> four-day visit follows the December 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=bondi-beach-massacre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Bondi Beach Massacre\">Bondi Beach terror attack<\/a> that killed 15 at a Hanukkah event, including two rabbis, a Holocaust survivor, and 10-year-old Matilda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=anthony-albanese\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Anthony Albanese\">Albanese<\/a> told radio listeners the Jewish community requested &#8216;their head of state,&#8217; prompting critics to accuse him of implying divided loyalties among Australian Jews. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Jewish groups like ECAJ welcomed the solidarity gesture amid rising hate, protests erupted in Sydney and Melbourne over Israel&#8217;s Gaza actions, highlighting Australia&#8217;s deep divides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albanese told radio listeners the Jewish community requested &#8216;their head of state&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":365711,"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":[9031,2139],"class_list":["post-365705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","category-israel","tag-anthony-albanese","tag-sydney"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365705","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=365705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365713,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365705\/revisions\/365713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/365711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}