This has been on a broad range of topics such as the statutory definition of charity,[8] human rights,[9] freedom of religion,[10][11] and labelling Kosher foods.

[14] In 2019, ECAJ called on the government to offer more protections to faith-based hospitals, aged care facilities, and housing providers, to allow organisations to continue to preference people of their own faith in service delivery.

[citation needed] One significant area of pro-Israel advocacy is in their opposition to the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel.

[20] ECAJ has rejected the BDS movement as anti-Semitic, although they did not join the legal proceedings against a Sydney professor brought by the group Shurat HaDin.

[21] ECAJ submitted a complaint to Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) over their screening the TV series The Promise in November and December 2011.

[24] In 2024, The Age reported that ECAJ deputy president Robert Goot had coordinated a campaign lobbying the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) to sack radio host Antoinette Lattouf, following social media posts by Lattouf relating to allegations of war crimes committed by Israel in the 2023 Israel–Hamas war.

In response, ECAJ's co-CEO Alexander Ryvchin stated that the council did not contact the ABC about Lattouf and the campaign was a "grassroots initiative of individuals exercising their right to make their objections known".