<H2>WHO AND/OR WHAT DOES THE JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF VICTORIA REPRESENT?</H2>

Reports in the latest Victorian gay and lesbian papers (9 December 2009) indicate that the Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV)has yet again displayed its homophobia to a gay Jewish organisation which, for its own good reasons, is trying to join the Council.

This council (JCCV) may be Jewish, but it certainly does NOT represent the Jewish communities in Victoria.

Jews forget at their peril the fact that they have been an oppressed group for many hundreds of years, and that to then oppress Jews just because they are not all identical in sexuality is just another form of discrimination and repression and should be condemned by every Jew who has ever faced antisemitism and other forms of hatred against them as a group who are 'different' from other groups.

Aleph is a gay male group in Victoria which has tried to become a member group under the umbrella of something called the "JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF VICTORIA".

This organisation is guilty of homophobia and discrimination and should be taken to task for this behaviour.

Who or what is a Jew and who or what is this council which thinks it can behave in such a disgusting way towards other Jews?

There are estimated to be some 40,000 Jews in Victoria - and how many of them are represented by this council?

Not too many, I would wager.