A community as diverse, educated, and dynamic as Australian Jewry is bound to have a variety of opinions and outlooks. Bob Carr’s recent Pearls and Irritations piece ( [June 1, ‘The Israeli Lobby and Labor’](/the-lobby-and-labor/) ) caricatures the outlook of that entire community, missing its nuances, conflicting opinions, and, indeed, the many years in which it has supported a two-state solution in the face of rejectionist alternatives. According to the authoritative Gen 17 study published by Monash University in 2017, 88 per cent of Australian Jews feel a sense of responsibility to ensure that the State of Israel continues to...