How is Wilders different to these?

Only following a storm of protest over his racist comments, AIJAC was forced to withdraw its support.

An article in the AJN on 23 Feb. 2007 titled "A few facts in the service of gross distortion" expressed the views of many Jews who are unhappy with the extremist activities of some mainstream Jewish organisations such as AIJAC, Dr Mark Baker wrote "One needn't be a prophet in an age of Google to predict what Professor Israeli would speak about behind open doors. The same can be said for Melanie Phillips, the author of Londonistan, whose visit is being sponsored by the Australia/Israel &Jewish Affairs Council to provoke the same message of fear and discord. No doubt, the invitation has also been extended to Bat Yeor, author of Eurabia, along with the annual visit by Daniel Pipes, thought-patroller of western academia."

And in a letter to the editor in AJN under "AIJAC Achievement" (9.3.2007) Mr Gordon Drennan wrote "My congratulations to Mark Leibler and Dr Colin Rubenstein at AIJAC. It's quite an achievement to arrange things so that you get to have your cake and eat it too. They invite professor Raphael Israeli to Australia, knowing full well he's an Islamophobe. They could not know, they could not have invited him for any other reason – he's written 20 books. Then they make sure his views end up in the mainstream media so they then get the chance to disown him and say his racist views are repugnant to Jews. But he still gets to stay here, give his talks and spread his race hate, and he gets way more publicity when he does. Masterful."

The above are only some examples of the anti-Muslims and anti-Arabs amongst the numerous guests of AIJAC and other Jewish organisations in Australia.

So much for Dr Rubenstein and AIJAC's "support" for multiculturalism and interfaith cooperation with the Muslim community, and "advocate for constructive steps towards peaceful coexistence between Israel and its Arab neighbours, and a just peace between Israelis and Palestinians."

If Dr Rubenstein and AIJAC think that through such extremist activities they "advocate for constructive steps towards peaceful coexistence between Israel and its Arab neighbours, and a just peace between Israelis and Palestinians" then there must be something wrong with their vision as they see things upside down. They are unfortunately playing on ignorance and fear. They are prolonging the conflict and are part of the problem.