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Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster As he become more genocidal, he becomes more popular. Last Israeli election (2022) his party (Otzma Yehudit, or Jewish Power) won 6 seats. He is projected to win 8-10 seats in Israel's upcoming election. That just about sums up Israeli Jewish society. [Quoted post: Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal · Jul 20 Wondering why anti-Israeli sentiment is at an all time high? Here’s Ben-Gvir today: “So I say today: there will be a Jewish settlement in all of Gaza. … [image: video still of Itamar Ben-Gvir, striding with a kippa-wearing crowd] end quote] 1:08 AM · Jul 21, 2026 · 6,152 Views
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[background image: a backing of cool colours. To the right, Francesca Albanese stands at a lectern in navy jacket, black top and red-beaded necklace] "I say to you again, this disregard for international law will not stop in Palestine. It is already unfolding from Lebanon to Iran, across countries and in Venezuela, and if left unchecked, it will spread far beyond. What is lost in Palestine will be lost to us all." - Francesca Albanese
I went to a hospital today, visiting someone who is dear to me. I had the same thoughts I have every time I go to a hospital now. Firstly, that it is inconceivable that the hospital I am in could be bombed. Secondly, that if the hospital I am in had been bombed, it is inconceivable that there would not be universal outrage and condemnation, wall to wall media coverage and, above all, consequences. Bombing hospitals is a war crime. Yet the State of Israel has bombed all of Gaza's hospitals, all 36 of them - including its only specialised cancer treatment facility, which it has destroyed - and gotten away with it. No universal outrage or condemnation, no wall to wall media coverage, no consequences. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, more than 18,500 Palestinians require urgent medical care that is currently unavailable in Gaza. Approximately 11,000 of these are cancer patients. @_thesunbird_
Tariq Kenney-Shawa @tksshawa Journalists at the @nytimes saw a photo of a man being tortured, so naturally they reached out to the people torturing him to get their permission to report on it and give them the first word. [embedded: The New York Times @nytimes . 1d The Israeli military confirmed the authenticity of a photo of a stripped and bound detainee that circulated online after it was reposted by a Palestinian activist, who wrote that an Israeli soldier first shared it. Rights groups sa ...] 10:43 PM . 10 Jul 26
Solo Monk @JJKALE2 As soon as Melburnians found out that Eyal Shani, chef & owner of Mizon was in Israel cooking up meals for the IDF before they headed out to slaughter Palestinians, they boycotted & shut down his restaurant. In Melb, feeding baby killers is bad business. [image of man carrying tables on footpath outside a building with a sign saying "MIZNON"] From theage.com.au 1:02 PM · Jul 11, 2026
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ME24 - Middle East 24 @MiddleEast_24 Despite Diplomatic Freeze, Egypt Seeks to Expand Economic Cooperation with Israel Relations between Israel and Egypt remain in a diplomatic freeze, highlighted by Cairo's continued refusal to approve the appointment of Israel's ambassador to Egypt, Uri Rotman, amid the ongoing Gaza issue and tensions with the Israeli government. However, behind the scenes, Egypt is reportedly interested in expanding economic cooperation with Israel as it grapples with significant economic challenges. According to the report, Cairo is keen to host Israeli business delegations and increase bilateral trade, while efforts are also underway to involve the United States in advancing trade cooperation between the two countries. In the energy sector, cooperation remains strong, with both countries continuing their extensive partnership, particularly in the natural gas industry, despite the broader diplomatic tensions. [Flags of Egypt and Israel] [Image of three men sitting at a small table. Two of them shake hands over the table] 7:40 PM · Jul 11, 2026
God @TheTweetOfGod Every single word in the Bible is true. It's only when you group them together as sentences that they start getting iffy.
sophie_mcneill1 9 July 2026 HOW’S THIS FOR MEDIA BIAS!! You won’t believe this email I got from an ABC journalist. Last week, I was helping @perth_doctors_for_palestine promote their heartbreaking “Walls of Tears” exhibition, which displays the names of 18,000 children killed in Gaza. We were trying to get mainstream media coverage of this display… so I sent off a press release we’d written to newsrooms across Perth. In the release we mentioned how Perth Doctors for Palestine have raised more than $800,000 thousand dollars for Gaza, which had helped build two schools. But 4 minutes after we sent this the release, we got an email back from a journalist in the ABC Perth newsroom with just one question about the exhibition: ‘How do they know the funds raised haven’t gone to Hamas?’ That was it. That was their response to being informed about this confronting display of the names of 18,000 children killed in Gaza by Israel. This is the reality of the mainstream Australian media - including our ABC - when it comes to accurately portraying the horror of this genocide. This is the entrenched bias, the distortion of the facts, the whataboutism and the false equivalence when it comes to coverage about Palestine. So make sure you support your independent news outlets - and look out for the next @perth_doctors_for_palestine Wall of Tears display, which will be announced soon!
As the gaslighting gets worse (because the monsters are out of and losing control) we must hold fast to the evidence of our eyes and ears. We must continue to trust our instincts despite what we have been conditioned to think. We must continue to learn. We must continue to unlearn. Above all, we must always do what we know to be right. @_thesunbird_
The problem was not that the Zionist leadership did not understand the Nazis’ intentions but that their priorities lay elsewhere. Ben-Gurion believed that Jewish ‘distress’ could serve as political leverage and that ‘it is in our interests to use Hitler… for the building of our country.’ He told the Jewish Agency Executive [JAE] that ‘the harsher the affliction, the greater the strength of Zionism.’ ... Ben-Gurion explained his thinking in January 1933 when he warned that ‘Zionism… is not primarily engaged in saving individuals’ and that if there was ‘a conflict of interest between saving individual Jews and the good of the Zionist enterprise, we shall say the enterprise comes first.’ - Tony Greenstein "Zionism During the Holocaust"
australiangreens 4h Privatisation of our essential services has failed. First Optus, now Telstra. The big private telcos will put profits over their obligation to provide an essential service. People need to know 000 will work, and they won't be left stranded because train communications are down. Our essential services should be run for people, not profit.
My name is Veronica Sherman. I'm the person whose seminar was cancelled by this Council. I'm an Israeli Jew. I served in the Israeli Air Force. I've lived in Australia for 31 years. I'm a member of Anti-Zionism Australia, a diverse anti-Zionist collective including Jews and Israelis. I was booked to present a seminar on Christian Zionism - the sixth in our series. My seminar was educational and based on my lived experience. There are people in our community who want to silence me, because I am a Jewish Israeli who publicly opposes the genocide being committed by the country I'm a citizen of. They've been harassing and attacking me online. And now, thanks to this Council, they've been able to silence me in person - - though, according to an online comic posted by Council Watch, it was the CEO who made the decision. Either way, this Council helped my harassers reach me. So my question has three parts that I would like answers to: 1. Who was I in danger from - or was I the danger? 2. Did the Council consider any alternatives - like additional security - or did it cancel my freedom of speech as the first resort? 3. Will the Council's public venues remain open to all Australians - or only to those who support Israel and Zionism?
Nova Peris OAM Am Yisrael Chai (feat. SHUA) · Simcha Leiner [image of Nova Peris beside Doron Almog with flag of Israel and Star of David banner behind] Liked by bluro2 and others novaperis I first met Major General (Res.) Doron Almog when President Isaac Herzog visited Australia to mourn the victims of the Bondi Beach Hanukkah …
Two new reports by the Tackling Hate Lab on online anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim hate were presented at the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion on Tuesday. Expert witness and Lab director Dr Matteo Vergani discussed the reports in his session, highlighting how both forms of hate increased significantly post-October 7, with a further surge in anti-Muslim hate following the Bondi attack. [circled The ABC detailed his team's findings on anti-Jewish hate, but erased the parallel report on anti-Muslim hate. end circle]
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In Westminster systems like ours, the Monarch’s representative commissions the person who has majority support in the lower house to form government. Australia’s Constitution made no mention of political parties or affiliation until Fraser managed to get section 15 amended in 1977. For most of the time since Federation, the government has been a Conservative coalition. More parties might make coalitions more difficult but whether it would favour the Left, the Right or the Centre, only time will tell. My feeling is that it would favour moderation. At the very least we’d end up with better negotiators in leadership. Electoral funding rules structurally favor major parties over independent candidates and emerging groups through unequal donation caps, uneven expenditure limits, and the distribution of public funding. Critics, including Transparency International Australia, argue these frameworks skew the democratic playing field. More parties might go some way to mitigating that corrupting influence.
Key Event 7h ago Western Sydney MP says new party has 'sparked an idea in me' By Joshua Boscaini Independent MP Dai Le has hinted that she could possibly start her Western Sydney political party. Sydney MPs Zali Steggall and Allegra Spender launched Community Strong Australia yesterday, but the party will remain leaderless for now. Asked on Channel Nine if she would join the new party, the Fowler MP says it has sparked an idea. "We've got the Western Sydney Community Party out here, so that has given me some kind of idea what to do," Le says. "I think we definitely need a Western Sydney voice, so that's something that it has sparked an idea in me."
Text: M O N O C U L T U R E IN SOCIETY & CULTURE asocietal state devoid of cultural diversity and the same language and beliefs dominate the entire population without exception IN AGRICULTURE the practice of growing a single crop species to maximise short-term efficiency and profitability, while depleting soil nutrients and increasing risk of crop failures and subsequent starvation IN MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT a shared experience where masses consume the same media - eg. the same officially sanctioned news and entertainment programs IN NAZI GERMANY the barbaric eradication of cultural, racial, and ideological diversity to force social conformity and eliminate anything unaligned with a-narrow, Ethnic-centric definition of a “pure" society Source: Daily Absurdities
Bottom row: On that test, the City of Melbourne CEO showed real leadership. Satisfied-looking woman with speech bubble: "The City's own position commits it to peace, cohesion, tolerance, de-escalation and social harmony. This decision proved those words still mean something." Large green 'M' CITY OF MELBOURNE Along the bottom: PEACE green tick COHESION green tick TOLERANCE green tick DE-ESCALATION green tick SOCIAL HARMONY no green tick
Comic-strip style image Header: CITY OF MELBOURNE GETS THIS ONE RIGHT Subhead: Leadership. Responsibility. Community first. Top row: Mock-up of poster showing Image that looks nothing like Veronica Sherman, with text "ANTI-ZIONISM AUSTRALIA CHRISTIAN ZIONISM A PUBLIC SEMINAR Sunday 21 June 5:30pm -7:00pm Kathleen Syme Library and Community Centre Carlton A discussion about the history and influence of Christian Zionism, including personal experience growing up as an Evangelical Christian Israeli in Jerusalem." To the right, an image of a building labelled "KATHLEEN SYME LIBRARY AND COMMUNITY CENTRE" with a speech bubble saying "The City of Melbourne cancelled the Anti-Zionism Australia seminar two days before the event. It cited safety and security concerns." At the end of the row, an ugly image of two angry-looking people on a red & orange background holding placards saying "CENSORSHIP!" and "WE FIGHT TO DISMANTLE ZIONISM!" plus a speech bubble saying "Anti-Zionism Australia called it "censorship". It also says it is a collective fighting to dismantle Zionism." Middle row: People at a table, with books and a laptop computer. One wears a hijab. Text: "LIBRARIES ARE CIVIC SPACES. Places for learning, safety, trust and social cohesion." A sign on the wall reads "RESPECT INCLUSION BELONGING" Next panel, text reading: "People can debate Israel, Gaza, Zionism or Christian Zionism. They can. The question was whether a council- controlled public venue should host a highly charged event that risked escalating tensions in an already fragile environment." To the right of that, a panel in calm, cool colours with text "YES TO DEBATE" showing people around a table with blank speech bubbles. A green tick completes the picture. The last panel in the row is in angry, hot colours with text "NOT THE RIGHT VENUE" showing a crowd with placards. A red cross completes the picture.
The council is no bystander. In September 2025 it paid for its own Deputy Lord Mayor Roshena Campbell and Councillor Rafael Camillo to attend the Combat Antisemitism Movement's Gold Coast summit, convened to push the widely discredited IHRA definition of antisemitism. There Campbell complained that "in Victoria we operate with one hand behind our backs when it comes to protests". A council whose Deputy Lord Mayor travels to that summit, then cancels an anti-Zionist seminar on "safety" grounds, is not protecting the public, but censoring it. Veronica Sherman, the cancelled speaker: "I am a Jewish woman and a former Israeli soldier. A public library has cancelled my talk over 'potential protest activity' - yet the threats I receive come from Zionists, not Palestinians. So who made my talk 'unsafe'? If the council now believes Zionists are the danger, I thank it for coming around to our point of view." Dr Keren Tova Rubinstein, AZA member: "If a government body can erase a lawful talk from a public library over a concern it won't even explain, then no one's speech is safe there. This is censorship by anonymous complaint, and it should alarm every Australian who claims to value democracy. This is not social cohesion. It is speech apartheid." Anti-Zionism Australia calls on the City of Melbourne to reinstate the booking and to state, in writing, who made the decision, on what rule, on what "safety" basis, and why it reached for cancellation over the lesser measures in its own terms.
This was the sixth seminar in the series; the first five passed without incident. The booking was made weeks ago, vetted and approved, the access key handed over. If safety were the real concern, the council's own terms had solutions: require security at the hirer's cost (clause 40), or refuse entry to any troublemaker (clause 12). It used neither. It did not ask for a guard, a risk assessment, or a new date. It cancelled outright - by phone, at seven o'clock on a Friday night, two days out. That timing is the tell: no safety precaution, but a tactic calculated to leave no time to find another venue and no choice but to scramble. This is what it now means to hold an anti-Zionist event in Australia: not a refusal you can fight, but a late-night call timed so you can't. The City of Melbourne is a public authority, bound by the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities to protect free expression and peaceful assembly, and by the Equal Opportunity Act 2010, which makes political belief a protected attribute with no "safety" exception.
CITY OF MELBOURNE CANCELS JEWISH ISRAELI WOMAN'S SEMINAR OVER "POTENTIAL PROTEST ACTIVITY" Public library's "safety" cancellation of Anti-Zionism Australia seminar is censorship – and another nail in the coffin of Australian democracy The City of Melbourne has cancelled a venue booking for a free public seminar at its Kathleen Syme Library and Community Centre two days before it was due to begin - citing nothing more than "safety and security concerns" it will not explain, after "matters raised with councillors and senior management". The message is unmistakable: dissent is now erased from public space at the say-so of anyone who complains. The seminar - an educational talk on Christian Zionism - was to be given by Veronica Sherman, a Jewish Israeli citizen and former Israeli Air Force soldier. For opposing Israel's genocide in Gaza, Sherman has been branded a "fake Jew" and sent death threats by Zionists. The City of Melbourne has now done their work for them. The council does not claim the organisers did anything wrong; all that changed was "community concern". It points to "potential protest activity", but names no actual threat - and no one behind it. Yet a gathering led by a Jewish Israeli speaker, attended by Jewish and Israeli Australians, cannot be antisemitic – and Palestinians have no reason to want it shut down. The only people who do are Zionists. By cancelling, the council has handed them a heckler's veto over who speaks in a public library.
In today's Sydney Morning Herald: 'Next year, a new history curriculum will bring more substance to teaching the Holocaust, with students to learn about World War II, the significance of the Nuremberg trials and the creation of the Genocide Convention. It comes as the federal government's Antisemitism Education Taskforce, led by David Gonski, has been working on strengthening Australia's curriculum to deepen understanding of Jewish culture and history.' What a joke. How do they propose to teach children about the Genocide Convention when teachers and students are forbidden from acknowledging or discussing the genocide that the State of Israel is committing right now? @_thesunbird_
In 1967, the year of Al Naksa, British actor Helen Mirren said, 'I witnessed things that were wrong. I saw Arabs being thrown out of their houses in Jerusalem. But it was just the extraordinary magical energy of a country just beginning to put its roots in the ground. It was an amazing time to be here'. On 2 July Channel 4 in the UK screened 'Doctors Under Attack'. On 27 April, Louis Theroux's 'The Settlers' was aired on BBC 2. Both documentaries should be required viewing for anyone who still holds a skerrick of belief in Mirren's despicable sentiment. BUT neither documentary should have needed to be made. We should not have needed western film crews to horrify us. Not only because Palestinians have been telling us for years what has been happening. Not only because Palestinians have been live-streaming their own genocide for 21 months. But because it should never have come to this. It should have been stopped decades ago. It should never have started. And, now, look at the price that has been paid. @_thesunbird_
Dr. Ghada Sasa, PhD @drghadasasa During an ongoing genocide, Paltrow is promoting penthouses built over a concentration & forced labour camp; over the destroyed homes, agricultural lands, and bodies of Palestinians; over stolen land that we have the right to return to according to international law.
The story so far: Gwyneth Paltrow, who grew up in an interfaith Jewish-Christian family, appears in a commercial for a housing project in Herzliya that began airing earlier this month in Israel. Penthouses in the 51 storey twin tower development, named 51 Park, are said to be priced at $10m. For her services as the face of the project, Paltrow was reportedly paid a similar amount. Herzliya was named after the founder of political Zionism Theodor Herzl. It was built over the lands of three Palestinian villages that were ethnically cleansed & destroyed by Israel in 1948: - Ijlil al-Shamaliyya;­ - ljlil al-Qibliyya; and - al-Haram (Sayyiduna 'Ali). Nearly 2000 Palestinians lived on lands that are now occupied by Herzliya. There used to be schools, shops, and a library. A few homes & the Sayyiduna 'Ali mosque survived, though the cemetery around the mosque has been converted into a parking lot for tourists. In 1948, ljlil al-Qibliyya became the 1st & biggest Israeli­ concentration & forced labour camp where Palestinian men over 15 were taken following the colonization of their villages. Operating for 11 months, it included over 200 tents. Prisoners were starved, tortured, & killed. During an ongoing genocide, Paltrow is promoting penthouses built over a concentration & forced labour camp; over the destroyed homes, agricultural lands, and bodies of Palestinians; over stolen land that we have the right to return to according to international law. — Dr. Ghada Sasa, PhD @drghadasasa Instagram
“All the evidence is that the extermination of the Jews was only decided upon after all other solutions had been tried and found wanting.” — Tony Greenstein “Zionism During the Holocaust”, Chapter 5 (New Generation Publishing, 2022) “I hope completely to erase the concept of Jews through the possibility of a great emigration of all Jews to a colony in Africa or elsewhere… However cruel and tragic each individual case may be, this method is still the mildest and best if one rejects the Bolshevik method of physical extermination of a people as un-German and impossible.” — Memo, Himmler to Hitler, May 1940; Browning, “Nazi Resettlement Policy”, p. 510. See also Bauer, “Who Was Responsible and When”, pp. 142-3.
As of January 2026, the State of Israel has erased more than 2700 families from the civil registry in Gaza. Entire bloodlines are gone. I live in a suburb that is relatively tolerant. Diverse, inclusive. And yet, here and there are 'Free Palestine' stickers that people have attempted to remove. I'm glad I don't know what it's like to wake up in a body that is more offended by a sticker than a genocide. @_thesunbird_
"Today, some interview fake Hezbollah fighters instead of fictitious PLO commanders." — Simona Foltyn During the 1982 siege of Beirut, renowned journalist Philip Caputo and his colleagues fabricated a fictitious Palestinian PLO commander named Abu Rashid. Caputo and other foreign reporters took turns interviewing each other to manufacture quotes attributed to this entirely fictitious figure. Abu Rashid grew into a widely cited figure in western news coverage before Caputo publicly confessed to the invention decades later.
All forms of racism are connected, and should be opposed together. Separating antisemitism from other forms of racism and hatred goes against the very idea of the universality of human rights, trampling the important universal agreement that was born out of the direct experience of the World War 2 holocaust. My commitment to implementing the lessons from that holocaust is at the heart of my opposition to Israel’s genocide, and to the ideology that enables it, Zionism. I call on the Commission to understand that antisemitism is racism, and needs to be treated as part of a wider social problem of racism and discrimination. Anti-Zionism, by its very definition, is anti-racism. Any outcome of the Commission must be in line with the universality in its anti-racist approach, and to follow the international covenants and agreements, including those borne out of the suffering of past and present genocides.
Most notably, on 3 October 2025, I was washing my hands at the public bathroom at Pentridge in Coburg VIC, and because I wore a Palestine scarf, the person washing his hands next to me, which I didn’t even notice at first, started calling me a terrorist, a rapist, and sprayed his handwashing water on me. I have experienced other more minor forms of abuse, mainly verbal abuse, while participating in pro-Palestine rallies and events. Even though these are minor, they are significant abuse, and often repeat the same racist, anti-Palestinian and Islamophobic tropes that Zionist ideology promotes. Key point: Antisemitism is a form of racism. Anti-Zionism is anti-racism. Zionism is a political ideology and practice, and as such, one which can (and in my opinion, should) be legitimately opposed. Zionism is based on the idea of supremacy of rights, and in practice this ideology is enforced with brutal violence which I witnessed repeatedly in Palestine/Israel, violence which has only become more brutal and extreme. As such, Zionism stands in direct contrast to the very basic premise of human equality and human dignity. Opposing Zionism is a right that should be protected.
I have been in increasing distress seeing the discourse over the past year in Australia that seeks to limit the legitimacy of anti-Zionist voices. Unfortunately this Commission and some of its choices with regards to representations has made me increasingly distressed with the idea that my very world view, the one which is based on basic human equality, is under direct threat. This, to me, is a form of antisemitism which itself needs to be considered. I have been vilified and targeted on a number of occasions by other Jewish Australians for my anti-Zionist convictions. On one occasion, myself and a number of colleagues were targeted by Mr Mark Leibler, a leading advocate for Zionism, who slandered us in a paid-to-promote tweet as “repulsive and revolting human beings” for identifying as anti-Zionists while being from a Jewish background. Mr Leibler only apologised after we brought the matter to a hearing at the Australian Human Rights Commission. I have unfortunately experienced more direct political violence on a number of occasions, while being in public and wearing an item of clothing associated with the Palestine cause.
My rejection of the ideology and practice of Zionism is not rooted in hatred, but in love. Deep, unwavering love for humanity, all of humanity, and a commitment to build a society in which our inherent rights and human dignities are protected without any discrimination or special separate categories. My direct experiences of racism in Australia In my 19 years of living in Australia, often speaking Hebrew (my first language) on the streets with friends or visiting family, I have never experienced a direct personal attack on my background. I do however witness how Zionism is increasingly becoming accepted as somehow a ‘default’ political ideology for Jewish people everywhere. This idea, which unfortunately is promoted by Zionist organisations as well as others, is in itself deeply antisemitic, as it conflates a person’s background with a political ideology and practice of oppression and genocide. I often need to confront this as people may assume from my background that I support Zionism, rather than being anti-Zionist, which I proudly am.
I first came to Australia as an international student in 2007. I learned about the context of colonisation, genocide, discrimination, and also resistance, here in Australia, and have been learning about it ever since. I proceeded to complete an Honours in Political Science from the University of Melbourne, and a PhD in public health from the University of Western Sydney. In my thesis I traced the history and development of the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services movement, and have been working with and for the sector ever since. I also hold an Honorary Senior Research Fellow appointment with the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne. To me, my opposition to Zionism, my support for the Palestinian movement, and my support for justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia, are all connected. All stem from the simple idea that all humans are born equal, an idea which is embedded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. That declaration was written and signed following World War 2 and the horrors of the holocaust.
I live with a number of chronic health issues which also impacted my perception of justice and my choice of career, public health. Thanks to my health conditions I was also able to avoid joining the army without the threat of prison, as some of my friends had to endure. In the final year of my undergraduate degree year (2004-05) I worked at Physicians for Human Rights, and as part of my role witnessed the mechanisms in which the systemic inequality, built by the logic of Zionism, means that some of the poorest and most vulnerable people living in that area are denied access to basic health services. Specifically, I worked with a population of native Palestinian-Bedouin women, who, despite being local, native, and married to Israeli citizens, were denied the right to Israeli citizenship, and as such, denied the right to use the health services. If they had an emergency and went into the public system, as would sometimes happen when they give birth, because they are denied the public coverage they would then be saddled with debt for the rest of their lives. All while someone else, who grew up anywhere else in the world – for example Australia – can get automatic Israeli citizenship (and rights to use the health system, as well as right to vote, etc) – just for having an ancestry deemed “correct” by the Israeli law.
This has led me down a path of learning as well as activism. The more I learned, the more I understood about the deep injustices that surrounded me, and the brutal repressive violence with which these injustices are enforced. By the late 1990s when I was a teenager I started to go semi-regularly to the West Bank, to talk to Palestinians, and to join in their protests for basic justice and rights. I have seen with my own eyes brutal violence with which the Israeli army represses any opposition to the race-based rights system which they maintain, or the land theft which they enact. I have felt on my own body the effects of the gas, the “skunks”, and other chemical agents regularly used to suppress protests at the time. I have seen a “rubber bullet” of an Israeli soldier pierce a child’s head, who then needed to be evacuated on a back of a donkey because the Israeli army destroyed the village’s main road. I am proud to say that I did not join the Israeli army. By the time I was 17 and had my draft, I already knew I cannot participate in the machinery of injustice, and go suppress my friends in the West Bank, who live with no basic legal and civil rights.
From a very young age, I became involved with matters of social justice. I saw the deep injustices surrounding me and understood that peace can only be attained through social justice, solidarity, and equality. I grew up in a mainstream Zionist family and went through the Israeli-Zionist education system, from kindergarten until the end of my undergraduate degree in political science and geography from Ben Gurion University. When I discuss Zionism, Zionist ideology, Israel and its actions – it comes from a place of deep knowledge and understanding. My grandparents from my mother’s side both escaped Europe shortly before the Second World War, and vast parts of their families – anyone who didn’t escape Europe – perished. As a child in Israel I grew up learning about the holocaust in great detail. This commitment to justice, to oppose racist state violence and genocide, the need for human solidarity, all of this is at the very foundation of my worldview. In 1995, when I was 13 years old, I attended my first big rally in Tel Aviv, to support the “peace process” at the time. I witnessed the Israeli Prime Minister at the time, Itzhak Rabin, assassinated by an opponent to the “peace process”. I was meters away.
Introduction I am an Australian from a Jewish-Israeli background, with dual Australian-Israeli citizenship, and I write to the Royal Commission to make my voice heard clearly on this important matter. In this submission I wish to make it clear that: The main threat I am feeling as a person of Jewish cultural background is from the increasing normalisation of the automatic association of Jewish people with the violent political ideology of Zionism. Freedom of speech for anti-Zionist voices must be protected, but also, listened to. My anti-Zionist position, as well as those of many others who have wrote to this Commission, is part of a universal anti-racist world view. All forms of racism are connected. Relatedly, antisemitism cannot and should not be treated in a way that is separated or elevated from other forms of racism and hatred. Personal background My name is Dr Guy Ischak Gillor. I was born in Palestine/Israel in 1982, and first came to Australia in 2007 as an international student, eventually migrating and making Australia my permanent home.
A hand-written card, saying "Guy Gillor" next to a heart-shaped pin in the colours of the Palestinian flag, on light grey woven fabric.
The world’s first trillionaire is a killer/Elon Musk’s empire of wealth is built on suffering. by TC Sottek Jun 12, 2026, 6:46 PM UTC [image: Elon Musk performing a Nazi salute at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. January 20, 2025] Hm! Photo: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images
Zionising To gaslight someone with such shameless, narcissistic, psychopathic audacity, that you deny reality to their faces while simultaneously playing the victim, engaging in endless circle debates that go nowhere and displaying a complete lack of empathy and basic humanity.
Recommendations 1. The Commission should recommend against blanket prohibitions on specific phrases or words where a range of meanings exists, including meanings that are not antisemitic. Enforcement of such prohibitions risks suppressing legitimate speech and driving conflict underground rather than resolving it. 2. The Commission should recommend investment in facilitated, trauma-aware dialogue programs that bring Jewish, Muslim, Palestinian, Arab and other Australian communities into genuine conversation on difficult topics. Initiatives of Change Australia and many other not-for-profit organisations stand ready to support and deliver such programs. 3. Any policy response to antisemitism should explicitly distinguish between anti-Jewish sentiment and criticism of the policies of the State of Israel, and should resist conflation of the two — from whatever direction that conflation comes. I welcome the work of this Commission and urge it toward recommendations that strengthen the deep fabric of Australian social cohesion, rather than approaches that, however well-intentioned, risk making that fabric more brittle. Mike Lowe, Initiatives of Change Australia
The lesson of fragile multiculturalism I recently visited Izmir (formerly Smyrna), which for centuries was one of the most ethnically and religiously diverse cities in the Mediterranean. Its Armenian population was largely spared the wider genocide that swept through the Ottoman Empire. Yet when acute pressure arrived — the Greek invasion of 1919 and the subsequent Turkish military advance — that diversity collapsed rapidly into ethnic cleansing. The multicultural coexistence had been real, but it was shallow. The communities had lived in separate quarters without deep relationship or dialogue between them. Australia's multiculturalism faces the same risk. Tolerance without understanding is fragile. When pressure comes — as it has since October 2023, and as it did so tragically at Bondi Beach in December 2025 — only communities with genuine relationships and the practice of dialogue across difference will hold together. When challenging, even triggering, conversations are shut down by law or policy, communities lose the very mechanism by which misunderstanding and fear are resolved. People retreat further into their own silos. The result is not less hatred — it is hatred that grows unseen, untested, and unchallenged.
The distinction between antisemitism and criticism of Israeli government action It is important to recognise that while the majority of Australian residents want peace, there are some whose agenda is to garner partisan support for their side to continue the conflict in the Levant. There are also bad-faith actors who want to advance social division for their own local political ends. All of these bad-faith actors benefit from deliberately conflating legitimate criticism of the actions of the Israeli government and army with anti-Jewish sentiment and/or conflating criticisms of the actions of Hamas or Hezbollah with anti-Palestinian or anti-Arab sentiment. This conflation has three major harms: 1. It exposes Jewish, Muslim and Palestinian Australians to the accusation that they are collectively responsible for horrors committed far away. 2. It helps brings the conflict to Australia by pressurising Jews, Muslims and Arabs to pick a partisan side. 3. By muddying the definition of anti-semitism it shields genuinely antisemitic conduct from scrutiny. If we are to meaningfully reduce antisemitism in Australia, we must draw a clear and defensible line between anti-Jewish sentiment and criticism of a state and its government. Policy that blurs this line — by treating political phrases as inherently antisemitic — makes that work harder, not easier.
What we demonstrated through careful, trauma-aware facilitation is that not only is it possible to have these conversations — it may be essential to do so. The process we used asked participants, when triggered by something said, to pause; acknowledge and feel the emotion; and then reflect: “What meaning did I bring to what I heard?” and then to bring curiosity to ask: “What did the speaker mean when they said it?” This process, in the safety of small facilitated group discussions, produced moments of understanding across profound disagreement. A key finding was that contested phrases carry a wide spectrum of meaning. "Zionism," for example, ranges from uncritical support for the Israeli state through to the view that every Jew is by default a Zionist because of the centrality of Jerusalem (Zion) throughout Jewish liturgy and practice — including the famous declaration 'next year in Jerusalem' at the conclusion of the Passover Seder — with many positions in between, including those who affirm both Israeli and Palestinian self-determination. Similarly, "From the River to the Sea" is used by some to call for the expulsion of non-Palestinians, and by others simply as an expression of hope for Palestinian freedom that is compatible with the existence of an Israeli state. Treating either phrase as having a single, fixed, and malicious meaning misrepresents the reality.
Here is my submission to the Royal Commission on Anti-Semitism and Social Cohesion, based on dialogues I have helped facilitate. About the submitter I am the lead facilitator at Initiatives of Change Australia, an organisation with a hundred-year history of building trust across the world's divides. Our approach begins with individuals taking personal responsibility — looking first at themselves before pointing fingers at others. I submit this as an Australian who is neither Jewish, Muslim, Israeli, Palestinian, nor Arab, but who has a deep commitment to social cohesion in this country and no partisan interest in any particular community. The evidence from facilitated dialogue Over the past 18 months I have helped facilitate a number of Palestinian-Jewish dialogues in Melbourne, including a session specifically designed to address the most triggering topics: the meaning of the word "Zionism," phrases such as "From the River to the Sea" and "Globalise the Intifada," questions about genocide, and the wearing of symbols such as the Israeli flag or the keffiyeh.
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Banner: sky news.COM.AU When contacted by SkyNews.com.au at the time, Ms Wilcox unleashed an extraordinary expletive-laden rant. "Why in God's name do you think I would answer the questions of Murdoch's petty little propaganda operation, to give them more fuel for their campaign of hatred?" she said. "The irony of me having to answer to charges of hatred when your grubby outfit gives not one shit about what you do to people you target. "Remind the boss about how much they cared about free speech when one of theirs was in the spotlight. "Political correctness gone mad, eh? You and your hit squad goons can fuck right off."
… the reason Egyptologists, as well as other archaeologists, continue to say that the exodus appears to be fictional is that there is NO archaeological evidence to support that it ever happened. According to the story around 2 MILLION Jews spent forty years wandering around a patch of desert that should have taken an average person about a week to walk across. Yet… • There is ZERO evidence of that area being occupied by such a large group of people around that point in history. • The Egyptians, who kept lots of excellent records, made NO NOTE WHATSOEVER of a slave revolt, or of a large groups of slaves leaving, at that point in history. • From the actual numbers it seems unlikely that such a large number of Jewish slaves even lived in Egypt… let alone escaped Egypt. • As I understand it, at the time the exodus was SUPPOSED to have taken place, the DESTINATION was also under Egyptian control… so the supposed route itself simply leads from one Egyptian territory to another at that point in history. I believe the current theory is that, if it happened at all, “the exodus” was a MUCH SMALLER event than described, and has been “inflated”… probably as a way to provide the new Jewish cultural group with an impressive “origin story”.
Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 @infolibnews Q: "Does the organized Jewish community need a social media strategy?" American Jewish Committee CEO Ted Deutch: "[Social media] is driven by algorithms … and the way to address those algorithms is to deal directly with the social media companies—which is what we do." "And we can point to successes with Meta and with TikTok and with others in working to ensure that anti-Semitic material and anti-Semitic material that feeds into algorithms is taken down from their sites." [video still: two besuited men in armchairs on a set] 1:49 PM · Feb 13, 2026 · 42K Views
Ronni Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt This should make every one of us very, very afraid It's not enough in Australia that we have a small, minority group forcing a distorted reality on us, we also now need to know some of those same powerful, well organised people are looking to own facts and information [embedded post Chris Menahan @infolibnews Al presents an incredible opportunity for Jews because "instead of trying to control the whole world" and "manage" social media, "we can go directly to the companies" with "advocacy solutions," Dr. Maya Ackerman tells the American Jewish Committee. "For the first time, there is a path to correcting the digital world!" Ackerman says. [video still of four people sitting against a backdrop saying 'AJC' repeatedly] end embedded post] 9:39 AM - Jun 6, 2026 - 12.1K Views
THE AUSTRALIAN Will Pauline Hanson be the Martin Luther of our time? Australia's woke elites have sparked a backlash, just as the Catholic Church's Curia did in 1517. By CHRIS UHLMANN COLUMNIST
The Nation. ECONOMY / JUNE 3, 2026 What's Really Behind Peter Thiel's Panicked Move to Argentina Some tech observers think that the Palantir overlord sees the end times coming, but his real motivation is likely much more mundane and self-interested. DAVID FUTRELLE
But the propaganda isn’t working anymore. That’s why Israel’s Foreign Ministry budget will receive a $150 million bonus this year, more than a 20X increase in bonus blood money. That’s also why the Israel lobby in the US is responsible for the most expensive primaries in US American history. And that’s why Israel is paying influencers $7,000 per post, since people aren’t buying the bullshit anymore. And the reason is pretty simple. Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians of Gaza has ripped the mask off the underlying logic of Zionism. As Patrick Wolfe famously put it in his classic essay on the topic, settler-colonial movements, “without exception,” lead to a logic of the “elimination of the native.” And in the case of Palestine, the logic of the elimination of the native needed no theorizing by academics, not even a look at history. Instead, it has been on live-stream every day for the past 969 days, and counting.
Today, Israel’s forcible displacement policies are on steroids. Israel is crowding Palestinians into smaller and smaller areas of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Israel, and pushing them out of Palestine altogether at an accelerating pace. Now, it’s expanding into Lebanon and Syria and doing the same there to Lebanese and Syrians. Zionists insist on a definition of Zionism detached from the history of the Zionist movement. As we said, the Zionist movement at its core was about the immigration of Jews into Palestine and the displacement of Palestinians out of it, the construction of Jewish settlements in it and the destruction of Palestinian ones, and the armament of Jewish militias and disarmament of Palestinian ones. That was how an Arab country was transformed into a Jewish one, demographically, physically and kinetically. Zionists can call immigration “indigenousness,” they can call colonization “the right to self-determination” and they can call a policy of forever, forcible displacement “liberation.” They can do that.