Manarul Islam

AMUST sat with Dr Max Kaiser, Executive Officer at the Jewish Council of Australia (Jewish Council), to find out more about the organisation and discuss Jewish-Muslim relations. Dr Kaiser is also an expert on anti-Semitism and Australian Jewish history and the author of Jewish Antifascism and the False Promise of Settler Colonialism. AMUST: Why did you see the need to create the Jewish Council of Australia?

During his visit to Canberra in July, AMUST sat with Aftab Malik, the Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia, to discuss his role, the personal challenges he has faced, his much awaited recommendations to the Australian government, which is due to be released this month, and the next steps moving forward. AMUST: What led you to accept the role of the envoy? Aftab: To cut a very long story short, this was not a role that I sought. I didn’t seek it out. It actually landed on my doorstep.