AFTER a week of confusion and accusations of anti-Semitism, One Nation senators Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts have confirmed they will take questions from the community on December 4 at IDF Training in Caulfield.
Gym owner Avi Yemini, who last week founded the Independent Jewish Council of Australia (IJCA), invited the pair to speak and contacted Glen Eira Council last Wednesday to see if the town hall was available.
Yemini claims he was told on the phone the booking was confirmed, but a council spokesperson told The AJN no form was submitted and that the event with the politicians couldn’t be held in Glen Eira Town Hall on the date in question.
Yemini was informed yesterday that there were no council facilities available at the time that could handle the event and, as a result, he is hosting it at his own gym.
Alongside concern that an unknown Jewish group was hosting the politicians, it was Roberts’ response as the story broke last week that also left councillors and Jewish leaders shocked.
Read the report by Joshua Levi in the Australian Jewish News.