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'''Ali Kazak''' (Arabic: {{lang-ar|علي القزق}}) was a senior Palestinian [[Palestiniandiplomat]] diplomat. He is now the Managingmanaging Directordirector of Southern Link International, a business and, investment consultancy and public relations company. He is the founder of the Australia-Arab Affairs Council and Palestine Publications a [[not for profit]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.southernlink.com.au/English/Managing%20Director%20Profile.htm |title="Managing Director – Profile", Southern Link International |access-date=20 October 2010 |archive-date=9 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200409115038/http://www.southernlink.com.au/English/Managing%20Director%20Profile.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="JWC">[http://blogs.crikey.com.au/trevorcook/2006/09/10/ali-kazak-becomes-jwm-associate/ "Ali Kazak becomes JWM associate", JWM, 10 Sept. 2006]</ref> He is a member of the Fateh Advisory Council.
 
== Early Lifelife ==
Kazak was born in [[Haifa]] in 1947. He grew up in [[Syria]] as a [[Palestinian refugee]]. He and his mother were separated from his father when Israel was created in 1948 and were prevented from returning home. He did not see his father, who was living back in Haifa, for 48 years. In 1968, while at [[Damascus University]], Kazak was invited to join the [[Fatah|Palestine National Liberation Movement (Fateh)]] and joined its political wing. At the time the movement was underground, it is now the largest party within the PLO.
Kazak was born in [[Haifa, Palestine]], on 29 March 1947. Palestine was under the [[British Mandate]], and the [[Zionist]] underground terrorist organisations - the [[Haganah]], [[Irgun]] and the [[Stern Gang]], comprising European Jewish settlers - had already began their armed take-over of Palestine in order to [[British–Zionist conflict|establish a Jewish Zionist state]].
 
Kazak immigrated to [[Australia]] in 1970. He became active in defence of the pro-Palestinian people’s human and national rightsLobbying. ▼
Kazak and his mother were amongst the more than 900,000 Palestinians ethnically-cleansed from their properties and homeland by the Zionists in 1948. He was then about ten months old. They took refuge with relatives in [[Syria]]. His father survived the [[1948 Palestinian exodus|exodus]] of 1948 and was among the 30% of the Palestinians who managed to remain in their ancestral home. For the next four years his parents tried continuously to be reunited through the [[International Red Cross]] and other legal bodies, but to no avail.
 
== Early Historyhistory in Australia ==▼
Finally, at great risk Kazak’s mother crossed the border on foot at night together with a guide and other families similarly split, to rejoin her husband in Haifa, believing that once she was back in her own country she could not be legally deported and that the authorities would allow her son to rejoin his parents through the International Red Cross. However, following her arrival safely back home, the Israeli forces discovered the guide, who under torture, revealed the names and the whereabouts of the people he had brought back and Mrs Kazak was arrested in the early hours of the morning and detained her without charge or trial for 47 days in the Jaffa women’s jail, then they deported her to Lebanon.
Kazak was the founder, publisher and co-editor of the Australian Newspaper Free Palestine (1979–90).<ref>Free Palestine, Published by A. Kazak, Melbourne, 1979–1990, {{ISSN|0157-3845}}</ref><ref name="TAP">The Australian People; An Encyclopedia of the Nation, Its People and Their Origins, General editor James Jupp, Angus and Robertson, Australia 1988, P730</ref> He was also the publisher and editor of Background Briefing (1987–93),<ref>Background Briefing, Published by A. Kazak, Canberra, 1987–1993, {{ISSN|1034-9189}}</ref> the book The Jerusalem Question (1997),<ref>The Jerusalem Question, Edited by Ali Kazak, published by General Palestinian Delegation, Canberra, 1997, {{ISBN|0-646-28747-8}}</ref> which was translated into Portuguese and reprinted in Brazil, and the author of the book '''Australia and the Arabs''' ({{lang|ar|أستراليا والعرب}}, written in Arabic) in 2012, which was published by the [[Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies]], in [[Doha]], [[Qatar]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://english.dohainstitute.org/content/fc910bfb-76e8-474b-803e-f45f889dad17%7cACRPS|title=Books: The Arabs and Australia|publisher=}}{{dead link|date=September 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He also contributed a chapter in 'Israel's International Relations: Contexts, Tools, Success and Failures' published in Arabic by MADAR (The Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies) entitled 'Israel's Relations with Australia, New Zealand and the pacific region'. As well, he has written other booklets and publications on the Palestine question, and penned the Palestinian entry in the Encyclopedia of the Australian People put out by the Australian Government to commemorate Australia's bicentennial in 1988.<ref name="TAP" /> He also organised a number of Palestinian political and cultural exhibitions throughout Australia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/previous/palestine.php|title=Past Exhibitions|publisher=Power House Museum}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://asset2.clinicdesign.com.au/mam_asset/SA%20Museum%20Annual%20Report%200405?id=01ffa7c06470ce62000001082ca7be4b&col=/client_db/MUSA&ext=jpg&type=pdf|title="Treasures of Palestine exhibition", South Australia Museum, 3 Dec. 2004 – 30 Jan. 2005|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/page/default.asp?site=1&page=Newsletter&id=784&fragPage=1|title=Error|last=Lithe|website=www.samuseum.sa.gov.au|access-date=20 October 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110217014137/http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/page/default.asp?site=1&page=Newsletter&id=784&fragPage=1|archive-date=17 February 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>
 
He was the founder and the driving force behind the establishment of the [[Palestine Human Rights Campaign]] on 30 May 1981 in a number of states in Australia (VIC, ACT, SA, WA and QLD) and in New Zealand's major cities, and other Palestinian community groups.▼
Kazak grew up in Syria as a [[Palestinian refugee]] away from his country and father whom he did not see for 48 years.
 
His activities in defendingadvocating hisfor people'sthe rightsPalestinian cause were recognised in 1981 with his appointment by the [[PLO Executive Committee]] as the PLO's representative to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region.▼
He was nine years old when [[Israel]], along with [[France]] and [[England]] [[Suez Crisis|attacked Egypt]] and occupied the [[Gaza Strip]] in 1956. At the age of twenty he witnessed another wave of Palestinian refugees, resulting from Israel's 1967 occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. He received his tertiary education at the College of Commerce, [[Damascus University]]. In 1968, while at Damascus University, Kazak was invited to join the [[Palestine National Liberation Movement]] (Fateh) which was at the time underground and which is now the largest party within the PLO.
 
== Diplomatic Missionmission ==▼
▲Kazak immigrated to [[Australia]] in 1970. He became active in defence of the Palestinian people’s human and national rights.
[[File:57 Received By the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia H.E. Bill Hayden on 29.5.1990.jpg|thumb|Received by the [[Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia]] H.E. [[Bill Hayden]] on 29 May 1990]]
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In 1982, he established the Palestinian diplomatic mission in Australia under the name of the [[Palestine Information Office]], which was recognised by the Australian government in 1989 as the office of the [[Palestine Liberation Organisation]], and then further recognised in 1994 as the [[General Palestinian Delegation]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;page=0;query=ali%20kazak%20Decade%3A%221980s%22%20Year%3A%221989%22;rec=1;resCount=Default|title=ParlInfo - SJ No 134 - 02 MARCH 1989 : QUESTIONS|accessdate=6 April 2023}}</ref>▼
▲==Early History in Australia==
Kazak was the founder, publisher and co-editor, with his close friends Frans Timmerman and David Spratt, of the well-known newspaper in Australia Free Palestine (1979-90). He was also the publisher and editor of Background Briefing (1987-93), the book The Jerusalem Question (1997), which was translated into Portuguese and reprinted in Brazil, as well as other booklets and publications on the Palestine question, and penned the Palestinian entry in the [[Encyclopedia of the Australian People]] put out by the Australian Government to commemorate Australia’s bicentennial in 1988. He also organised a number of Palestinian political and cultural exhibitions throughout Australia.
 
During a speaking tour of New Zealand in early 1982, Kazak met with the Foreign Minister [[Warren Cooper]], which was the first official meeting with a PLO official by the NZ Government, and resulted in New Zealand's recognition of the PLO.<ref>"PLO beckons MPs", The Dominion, New Zealand, 4 May 1982, P2</ref><ref>"Palestinians' image concerns visitor", The Star, New Zealand, 28 April 1982. P3</ref><ref>"The Case for Palestine", by Vernon Wright, NZ Listener, New Zealand, 15 May 1982, pp.18-19</ref>
▲He was the founder and the driving force behind the establishment of the [[Palestine Human Rights Campaign]] on 30 May 1981 in a number of states in Australia (VIC, ACT, SA, WA and QLD) and in New Zealand's major cities, and other Palestinian community groups.
In 1982 Kazak led a delegation to the Middle East, comprising parliamentarians, clergy, academics and journalists from both Australia and New Zealand. It was the first-ever Arab-led delegation and was followed by other parliamentary delegations.<ref>"Emit receives fact-finding mission", Daily Gulf Times, UAE, 11 October 1982, front page</ref>▼
 
Kazak was the first Arab official to visit the South Pacific countries in 1985.<ref>"Pacific tour", Free Palestine, Melbourne – Australia, May–June 1985, P9</ref><ref>Official communiqué of the Vanuatu Government, Port Vila – Vanuatu, 9 May 1985</ref><ref>"Envoy in Fiji to state the Palestinians' case", Fiji Times, Suva – Fiji, 14 Mau 198</ref> He has been received by consecutive heads of governments, prime ministers and foreign ministers in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;page=0;query=ali%20kazak%20Decade%3A%221990s%22%20Year%3A%221990%22;rec=2;resCount=Default|title=ParlInfo - QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE : PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANISATION|accessdate=6 April 2023}}</ref><ref>[http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/AUYrBkIntLaw/1990/8.pdf 'Recognition of States – non-recognition of "Palestine" – status of the Palestine Liberation Organisation in Australia', Australian Year Book of International Law1990, P 236 – 237]</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2003/07/11/900384.htm|title=Howard meets Palestinian delegate|newspaper=ABC News|date=11 July 2003|publisher=}}</ref>
▲His activities in defending his people's rights were recognised in 1981 with his appointment by the [[PLO Executive Committee]] as the PLO's representative to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region.
 
His efforts were crucial in gaining recognition by the [[Republic of Vanuatu]] (1985), [[Papua New Guinea]] (1994) and [[East Timor]] (2004) of the State of Palestine and the establishment of full diplomatic relations with these countries. Kazak presented his credentials as the non-resident Ambassador of Palestine to the Republic of Vanuatu on 19 October 1989<ref>Vanuatu recognised PLO", Vanuatu Weekly, Port vila – Vanuatu, 20 October 1989</ref><ref>"Vanuatu and Palestine establish full diplomatic relations", Vanguard, Melbourne – Australia, 8 November 1989</ref> and to the Democratic Republic of East Timor on 2 March 2004.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mfac.gov.tp/media/mr040301ae.html|title="President Xanana Gusmão to receive new Palestinian Ambassador", Ministry of Foreign Affairs press release, Dili – Timor-Leste, 1 March 2004|access-date=20 October 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110106091542/http://www.mfac.gov.tp/media/mr040301ae.html|archive-date=6 January 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was also Ambassador-designate to Papua New Guinea (1994–2006).<ref>"PLO man in for talks", Papua New Guinea Post-courier, Port Moresby- Papua New Guinea, 1 November 1989</ref><ref>Papua New Guinea, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, press release No. 89, 31 October 1989</ref>
▲==Diplomatic Mission==
▲In 1982 he established the Palestinian diplomatic mission in Australia under the name of the [[Palestine Information Office]], which was recognised by the Australian government in 1989 as the office of the [[Palestine Liberation Organisation]], and then further recognised in 1994 as the [[General Palestinian Delegation]].
 
Kazak was awarded the 20th Anniversary of Independence Medal by the president of Vanuatu, Rev. [[John Bani]], on 30 July 2000, becoming the first Middle East ambassador to receive such an award throughout the Pacific and Australasian regions.
During a speaking tour of New Zealand in early 1982, Kazak met with the Foreign Minister [[Warren Cooper]], which was the first official meeting with a PLO official by the NZ Government.
▲In 1982 Kazak led a delegation to the Middle East, comprising parliamentarians, clergy, academics and journalists from both Australia and New Zealand. It was the first-ever Arab-led delegation and was followed by other parliamentary delegations.
 
In May 1986 Kazak became the first person to call for adjudication by the [[Australian Press Council]] of untrue and stereotyped reporting of Palestinians by an Australian media outlet. The case was upheld by the Press Council in its adjudication of 27 August 1986.<ref>"Man denied right of reply, says press council", the Age, Melbourne – Australia, 3 September 1986</ref> This was followed by other cases in which the Palestinian people were vilified by the media.<ref>Administrative Decisions Tribunal of New South Wales Proceedings concern a complaint of racial vilification made by Mr Ali Kazak against The Australian Financial Review, 27 March 2000▼
Kazak was the first Arab official to visit the South Pacific countries in 1985. He has been received by consecutive heads of governments, prime ministers and foreign ministers in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region.
http://www.law.mq.edu.au/.../ADT NSW Kazac v Fairfax case 2000.htm – Cached</ref>
 
Kazak has presented three comprehensive submissions to the first, second and third inquires of the Federal Parliament's Human Rights Sub-Committee in 1992/93, 1993/94 and 1998/99 respectively, as well as a further submission to the Foreign Affairs Sub-Committee's inquiry in 2000 on Australia's relations with the Middle East. He has also been invited to appear at the committee's public hearings.<ref>See reports on these subjects by the Joint Standing Committee on Human Rights and Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://nswchurches.org/Resources/Articles/A08515_JFADT_Conviction_with_Compassion_Nov2000-full.pdf|title="Conviction with Compassion: A Report on Freedom of Religion and Belief", Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, Presented to both Houses of Parliament on 27 November 2000. 18 November 2002|access-date=20 October 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727133131/http://nswchurches.org/Resources/Articles/A08515_JFADT_Conviction_with_Compassion_Nov2000-full.pdf|archive-date=27 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;orderBy=date-eLast;page=2;query=Ali+Kazak;rec=7;resCount=Default|title=ParlInfo – Background on the organisation of the PLO and a request for Mr Hawke to intervene in the Middle East process|website=parlinfo.aph.gov.au|access-date=15 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170816012611/http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;orderBy=date-eLast;page=2;query=Ali+Kazak;rec=7;resCount=Default|archive-date=16 August 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;page=1;query=Ali+Kazak;rec=5;resCount=Default|title=ParlInfo – JOINT STANDING COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE Foreign Affairs Subcommittee : 26/02/2001 : Australia's relations with the Middle East|website=parlinfo.aph.gov.au|access-date=15 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170816012608/http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;page=1;query=Ali+Kazak;rec=5;resCount=Default|archive-date=16 August 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/jfadt/Mideast/MEreport.pdf|title=Full report for Australia's Relations with the Middle East record of adherence to prior agreements has been either grudging, incomplete, Date: 21/07/2010 – Collection: Committees – Sub Collection: HoR Committee Reports, ID: www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/jfadt/Mideast/MEreport.pdf – Size: 3.3 Mb|publisher=|access-date=20 October 2010|archive-date=14 October 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101014155441/http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/jfadt/Mideast/MEreport.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
His efforts were crucial in gaining recognition by the [[Republic of Vanuatu]] (1985), [[Papua New Guinea]] (1994) and [[East Timor]] (2004) of the State of Palestine and the establishment of full diplomatic relations with these countries. Kazak presented his credentials as the non-resident Ambassador of Palestine to the Republic of Vanuatu on 19 October 1989 and to the Democratic Republic of East Timor on 2 March 2004. He was also Ambassador-designate to Papua New Guinea (1980-2006).
 
He has addressed and represented Palestine at numerous national and international conferences and forums. He was also invited to speak at international forums such as the (United Arab) [[Emirates Centre for Strategic Studies]] and Research’sResearch's symposium ‘Australia'Australia and the Arab World’World' in 2009, and has written articles in the mainstream Australian and international media. Kazak has appeared on national and international television and radio programs.▼
▲Kazak was awarded the 20th Anniversary of Independence Medal by the president of Vanuatu, Rev. [[John Bani]], on 30 July 2000, becoming the first Middle East ambassador to receive such an award throughout the Pacific and Australasian regions.
 
Kazak played a major role in obtaining the release of NZ hostages captured by the Iraqi army in Kuwait in 1990 and taken to Baghdad.<ref>"PM, PLO talks upset NZ Jewry", by Cate Brett, Christchurch Star, Christchurch – New Zealand, 3 October 1990, P3</ref>
▲In May 1986 Kazak became the first person to call for adjudication by the [[Australian Press Council]] of untrue and stereotyped reporting of Palestinians by an Australian media outlet. The case was upheld by the Press Council in its adjudication of 27 August 1986. This was followed by other cases in which the Palestinian people were vilified by the media.
 
In the late 1990s Kazak initiated the establishment of the [[NSW State Parliamentary Friends of Palestine]] group (1998), the [[Australian Federal Parliamentary Friends of Palestine]] (1999), the [[Victorian Parliamentary Friends of Palestine]] (2002) and the [[South Australia Parliamentary Friends of Palestine]] (2003) and the [[New Zealand Parliamentary Friends of Palestine]] (1999).▼
Kazak has presented three comprehensive submissions to the first, second and third inquires of the Federal Parliament's Human Rights Sub-Committee in 1992/93, 1993/94 and 1998/99 respectively, as well as a further submission to the Foreign Affairs Sub-Committee’s inquiry in 2000 on Australia’s relations with the Middle East. He has also been invited to appear at the committee's public hearings.
 
Following to the [[Declaration of Principles]] in 1993 Mr, Kazak was able to re-enterreturn histo homelandHaifa in June 1995, where. heHe was reunited with his father for the first time in 48 years in his birthplace, Haifa.▼
▲He has addressed and represented Palestine at numerous national and international conferences and forums. He was also invited to speak at international forums such as the (United Arab) [[Emirates Centre for Strategic Studies]] and Research’s symposium ‘Australia and the Arab World’ in 2009, and has written articles in the mainstream Australian and international media. Kazak has appeared on national and international television and radio programs.
 
==References==
▲In the late 1990s Kazak initiated the establishment of the [[NSW State Parliamentary Friends of Palestine]] group (1998), the [[Australian Federal Parliamentary Friends of Palestine]] (1999), the [[Victorian Parliamentary Friends of Palestine]] (2002) and the [[South Australia Parliamentary Friends of Palestine]] (2003) and the [[New Zealand Parliamentary Friends of Palestine]] (1999).
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==External links==
▲Following to the [[Declaration of Principles]] in 1993 Mr Kazak was able to re-enter his homeland in June 1995, where he was reunited with his father for the first time in 48 years in his birthplace, Haifa.
* [[Al Jazeera Media Network|Al Jazeera]] documentary on Ali Kazak 'Mawa'd fi al Mhjar'(A Date in the Country of Immigration)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E74627F0-72AB-4FC5-9612-16AD1207B46C.htm|title=علي القزق|publisher=}}</ref>
* Papers of Ali Kazak, 1974–2008 [manuscript], National Library of Australia<ref>{{cite web|url=http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2344151|title=Papers of Ali Kazak, circa 1950-circa 2011 [manuscript]|first=Ali|last=Kazak|year=1950|publisher=|via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
 
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He is married with two daughters and two sons.
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