{"id":85512,"date":"2026-04-27T10:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/85512\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:02:21","slug":"antisemitism-and-israel-a-challenge-to-the-australian-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/85512\/","title":{"rendered":"Antisemitism and Israel: A challenge to the Australian narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"

A provocative Royal Commission submission by Dr Evan Jones<\/a> argues that Australia\u2019s antisemitism debate cannot be separated from Israel, Zionism and their political influence.<\/p>\n

Submission to the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 1<\/p>\n

General<\/p>\n

This submission can be reduced to one word \u2014 Israel.<\/p>\n

There you have the answer to your inquiry. Dismantle apartheid Israel and see so-called \u201cantisemitism\u201d disappear overnight, save for a small ineradicable but prosecutable fringe.<\/p>\n

There is really no reason for this Royal Commission at all, as the problem is self-evident. The Commission will not solve the problem that it was formally established to resolve because its agenda is diversionary. Indeed, it will compound the problem because it will, in all probability (as it is seemingly intended to do), reinforce the influence of the Australian Zionist lobby and thus the ongoing impunity of Israel.<\/p>\n

The problem arises from the conflation of two forces.<\/p>\n

\"How<\/a><\/p>\n

One: Israel is a nation founded on terrorism and wilfully sustained on deep-seated racism.<\/p>\n

We know that nation-states are perennially born of violence, expropriation and repression (Australia as a case study), but Israel is a pronounced variation on a common colonialist theme. Israel was born of naked terrorism against an entire (non-Jewish) indigenous population. It was explicitly created and has been sustained as a racist apartheid state. Its borders have never been determined, envisaging ongoing expansion (lebensraum) \u2014 \u201cfrom the river to the sea\u201d\u00a0(and beyond).<\/p>\n

Palestinian Israelis (descendants of those whom the Zionist terrorist gangs failed to expel) are second-class citizens. Palestinian non-Israelis, under Occupation and under martial law, are denied the most basic human rights. Gaza has been a concentration camp since Sharon supposedly \u201cdisengaged\u201d from Gaza in 2005.<\/p>\n

The sadistic murder of Gazans since October 2023 is reminiscent of the Germans\u2019 feverish pursuit of Jews and Bolsheviks after Operation Barbarossa<\/a> in June 1941. Israel has long undermined United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA<\/a>) personnel and facilities, which attempt to instil a modicum of humanity into a population long starving from Israeli blockages. Israel endorses carnage by fanatical settlers on West Bank Palestinians, murdering and destroying Palestinian livelihoods at will \u2014 for which they enjoy absolute immunity.<\/p>\n

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF<\/a>) murder children with pleasure. Children are imprisoned indefinitely for throwing stones. Adult prisoners are tortured and murdered. Israel wilfully murders foreign dignitaries (most recently, the Iranian National Security Council chief Ali Larijani<\/a>, reputed \u201cmoderate\u201d and skilled negotiator), which highlights that mass murderer Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> has put to words what has been the manifesto of all Israeli leadership: there will never be a Palestinian state (September 2025).<\/p>\n

Long-term ethnic cleansing has now turned to genocide, ongoing in defiance of the formal \u201cceasefire\u201d. Israel destroys essential infrastructure, murders aid workers and journalists \u2014 because it can. The journalist murder count is now further \u201ctotting up\u201d in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n

Representative \u2014 this month (March 2026) marks the 23rd anniversary of the crushing of American Rachel Corrie<\/a> by an Israeli bulldozer.<\/p>\n

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese<\/a> has delivered the 21-page\u00a0report<\/a>, \u2018Torture and genocide: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967\u2019, dated 19 February 2026. Albanese\u2019s team outline the depths of depravity and inhumanity to which the Israeli regime has now sunk in its attempted destruction of the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n

\"Israel,<\/a><\/p>\n

Some excerpts:<\/p>\n

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Torture has always been a central feature of Israel\u2019s dispossession of Palestinians. Yet, since October 2023, Israel has employed it on a scale that suggests collective vengeance and destructive intent.<\/p>\n


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Torture is not confined to cells and interrogation rooms. Through the cumulative impact of mass displacement, siege, denial of aid and food, unrestrained military and settler violence and pervasive surveillance and terror, the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) has become a space of collective punishment, where the destruction of the conditions of life turns genocidal violence into a tool of collective torture with long-term mental and physical consequences for the occupied population.<\/p>\n


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During its Mandate in Palestine, Britain used torture as one of the counterinsurgency tactics honed in Ireland and later imparted to Zionist militias; such practices, a colonial legacy, were then absorbed into the Israeli security apparatus before and after 1948 as a tool of repression and a preventive measure against Palestinian resistance. From early State-building and through decades of occupation, Israel has practised and condoned coercive violence as a structural component of its apparatus of domination.<\/p>\n


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An ecosystem of discriminatory legal frameworks and abusive operational practices has metastasized, encompassing Israeli military detention sites and prisons.<\/p>\n


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Since October 2023, torture in detention has, been used on an unprecedented scale as punitive collective vengeance \u2014 a clear feature of genocide. All Palestinians have been treated collectively as \u201cterrorists\u201d and \u201csecurity threats\u201d.<\/p>\n

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For her luminous competence, commitment and courage, Albanese was subject to comprehensive oppressive sanctions by the unhinged U.S. Trump Administration in July 2025.<\/p>\n

Israel defies all international institutions and laws that proscribe the abuse of state power. Israel\u2019s lobbying and propaganda regime (hasbara<\/a>) is probably the most extensive of any state in history. Israeli authorities lie about the state\u2019s forces\u2019 actions without remorse.<\/p>\n

The Israeli state is a parasite, receiving over US$300 billion (AU$418.7 billion) in aid from U.S. governments since 1950 (a great deal of which flows back to U.S. weapons manufacturers), supplemented by an estimated US$2 billion (AU$2.8 billion) per annum in donations from overseas Jewish \u201ccharities\u201d, propped up at the country taxpayers\u2019 expense. In particular, the Jewish National Fund<\/a> directs funds to obliterating indigenous history in historic Palestine.<\/p>\n

\"Australia\u2019s<\/a><\/p>\n

In short, the state of Israel is a pariah state<\/a>, a barbaric regime, an abomination.<\/p>\n

Two: All self-described \u201cofficial\u201d Jewish representative organisations in Australia support and lobby for Israel unreservedly. It is a full-time occupation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Such \u201crepresentative\u201d organisations oppose basic human rights for Palestinians under Israeli control. They socialise<\/a> their children into \u201ca love of Israel\u201d in Jewish \u201cfaith\u201d schools. Some of their children are currently enrolled with the IDF to kill Palestinians.<\/p>\n

Such organisations lobby Australian governments to support Israel, inhibiting Australian governments from adopting a principled stance towards Israeli criminality. They harass media management and editorial, thus gaining privileged access to and biased coverage from media outlets that the public relies on for supposedly unbiased information and opinion. Their ridiculous defences of Israel (op-eds, letters, buying off journalists) are published with great regularity. Anti-Zionist Australian Jews (vide Louise Adler<\/a>\u00a0and so on) and their organisations (the recently formed Jewish Council of Australia) are pilloried, indeed \u201cexcommunicated\u201d.<\/p>\n

In essence, Australian Jewish \u201crepresentative\u201d organisations act as a fifth column for a foreign state against Australian national interests \u2013 naturally antagonistic to \u2018social cohesion\u2019.<\/p>\n

One and two in combination.<\/p>\n

The Australian Jewish community, by virtue of its \u201cofficial\u201d representatives, courageous dissenters excepted, is complicit in Israeli genocide. And not just passively but actively. There has been no mea culpa on the part of executives of the key Jewish organisations (such as ECAJ<\/a>, ZFA<\/a>, AIJAC<\/a>). Nobody in the Jewish community that underpins these organisations has sought to overturn the leadership of these key organisations in order to reorient their agenda and priorities.<\/p>\n

In short, Israel and the \u201cofficial\u201d Australian Jewish community are joined at the hip.<\/p>\n

It is not unrealistic to infer that the Bondi attack<\/a> (and multiple incidents simply labelled \u201cantisemitic\u201d) is blowback for Israel\u2019s character and actions and its local support network. The Israeli machine thus puts the security of global Jewry at risk (indeed, its own Jewish population) and doesn\u2019t care.<\/p>\n

A Zionist foot soldier is published in The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a> (22 March), in denial regarding the intimate connection:<\/p>\n

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\u2018While David Leser\u2019s article<\/a> (SMH & Melbourne Age, 20 March [2026]) raises some thought-provoking points, it falls into the trap of attributing antisemitism in Australia to the actions of the Israeli Government. No other national or ethnic group in Australia is held to account for the actions of governments in countries overseas. So why is it considered reasonable for Jews in Australia to be relentlessly discriminated against for the actions of the Netanyahu Government?\u2019<\/p>\n

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After the Bondi Beach murders, Israeli flags were well represented among the flower collections and mourners. Israel is apparently seen as the mother ship, the source of solace for those suffering, yet it is the ultimate cause of that suffering.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

This bizarre anomaly is enhanced when the Zionist Federation of Australia (as befits its name) initiated the idea of inviting the Israeli President, Isaac Herzog<\/a>, to Australia, subsequently legitimised and authorised by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese<\/a> and dragging the Governor-General into the sordid process.<\/p>\n

Another foot soldier grasps the connection but declines to understand the implications (SMH<\/a>, 9 January 2026):<\/p>\n

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\u2018President Herzog is the legitimate head of state of the internationally recognised democratic state of Israel, rightfully invited to commiserate with Australians after the appalling terrorist atrocity at Bondi, in which predominantly Jewish people were murdered and injured.\u2019<\/p>\n

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One notes in passing that Israel is not a democracy but an ethnocracy \u2014 no amount of affirmation is going to change the lie and the blind spot in the letter writer\u2019s eye. To repeat, Israel is apparently seen as the mother ship, the source of solace for those suffering, yet it is the ultimate cause of that suffering. \u2018Rightfully invited\u2019 \u2014 really?<\/p>\n

Herzog is not a passive head of state but an active participant in Israeli barbarism. Herzog comes to Australia, spends a token moment with victim families and survivors, declines to visit the fire-bombed Orthodox (non-Zionist) Adass Israel synagogue (\u201cfor reasons of security\u201d) and spends the bulk of his time playing Israeli politician (\u2018not the time for a two-state solution<\/a>\u2019, meets with ASIO and so on). \u00a0<\/p>\n

The implication is ugly. Those murdered at Bondi are being instrumentalised (as with Netanyahu\u2019s treatment of Hamas\u2019 Israeli hostages) in the defence of the state of Israel and its current genocidal agenda. Appalling, no?<\/p>\n

Part 2<\/p>\n

The Commission\u2019s Terms of Reference<\/a><\/p>\n

[Preamble]<\/p>\n

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\u2018AND the determination of the Australian Government to respond to the attack, and the factors leading up to the attack, as a matter of urgency by addressing antisemitism within the Australian community, including since 7 October 2023.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Investigating the factors leading up to the attack could and should have been the responsibility of the mooted and more suited Richardson review<\/a>. A royal commission is not the most appropriate vehicle towards this end.<\/p>\n

Any investigation regarding \u201cantisemitism\u201d in Australia has to put Israel front and centre. The \u201cofficial\u201d Jewish community, AKA the Zionist lobby, naturally wants to exclude it.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

The appalling Segal Report<\/a> contains no substantive reference to Israel (my dissection here<\/a> and here<\/a>), thus being not merely worthless but disingenuous (vide Gwena\u00ebl Velge<\/a>\u2019s summary of the counter-Segal Greenslade and Briskman report<\/a>, Not in Our Name: Jewish Australians Speak Out) and dangerous. Ditto the absence of any substantive reference to Israel in the most recent annual report (December 2025) of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (sic) (dissected here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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\u2018AND that the Australian Government has adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance\u2019s working definition of antisemitism.\u2019<\/p>\n

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This submitter is frankly gobsmacked to find that this fraudulent \u201cdefinition\u201d has been officially adopted. The definition has been widely criticised, including by one of its originators, Kenneth Stern<\/a>. The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance\u00a0(IHRA<\/a>) definition is essentially about demonising criticism of Israel. Any proposed definition of antisemitism that attempts to delineate the terms on which one is allowed to criticise Israel without censure is automatically illegitimate.<\/p>\n

The adoption of the IHRA definition nullifies any legitimacy that the paraphernalia of a royal commission might have and destroys any prospect of an honest analysis and a substantive functional prognosis. This adoption of the IHRA definition gives the impression that the Royal Commission, even inadvertently, will serve as yet another front for the pro-Israel lobby.<\/p>\n

With the Royal Commission proceeding based on the IHRA definition, it can only turn into an inquisition. It can have nothing intelligent or ethical to offer about real antisemitism and can have nothing to offer in terms of genuinely dealing with it. It will be remembered as a squandering of the significant money that funds it and for the farcical theatre that is its essence.<\/p>\n

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\u2018AND recognising that strengthening the national consensus in support of democracy, freedom and the rule of law (social cohesion) provides the strongest defence against antisemitism and other forms of religious and ideologically motivated extremism.\u2019<\/p>\n

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This sentence reads like it was written by AI. Who wrote this rubbish? One cannot have social cohesion as long as a particular Australian community coheres and operates actively as a fifth column in support of a foreign rogue state and influences Australian politics, both foreign and domestic, and media towards that end.<\/p>\n

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\u2018AND that hearing from the Jewish Australian community will be important to informing the recommendations of your inquiry and recognising concerns relating to educational and cultural institutions, and other sections of Australian society.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Which \u2018Jewish Australian community\u2019? Is this obscurantism a product of naivete or of cynical contempt? Is the pro-Israel lobby running this show? Will anti-Zionist Jews and their organisations be consulted? Will anti-Zionist non-Jewish organisations (which have Jewish membership), such as the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network<\/a>, be consulted?<\/p>\n

\u2018…and recognising concerns relating to educational and cultural institutions…\u2019 Meaning? Which and whose concerns? Is this an oblique reference to forthcoming censorship, sackings, institutional defunding and hasbara implants as foreshadowed in the Segal Report?<\/p>\n

\"Antisemitism,<\/a><\/p>\n

To the Honourable Virginia Bell AC<\/p>\n

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We do… appoint you to be a Commission of inquiry, and require and authorise you to inquire into the following matters:<\/p>\n


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(a) tackling antisemitism by:…<\/p>\n

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This section is at the heart of the Commission\u2019s Terms of Reference misdirection. Misdiagnosed symptoms are highlighted rather than causes.<\/p>\n

The authorities need to cut the umbilical cord between the Australian Jewish community (including demolishing the pernicious influence of its Zionist leadership) and the criminal state of Israel.<\/p>\n

In particular, (a)(iv) deserves comment. The \u2018mental health and wellbeing of Jewish Australians\u2019? No doubt the Commission hearings will consider the mental health of anti-Zionist Australian Jews who experience the mental anguish of seeing Jewish Israelis acting like Nazis (and supposedly in the name of global Jewry), but who also suffer the obloquy of abuse by the Australian Zionist Jewish establishment for their ethical stance.<\/p>\n

As for the mental health of Australian Zionist Jews, tied inexplicably to a racially supremacist Israel, it is a psychopathology and to their own account\u00a0\u2014 save that their aberrant mental state has the Palestinians (and now the Iranians and, once again, the Lebanese) as its ongoing victims.<\/p>\n

Zionist Jewish University students, fresh from their \u201cfaith\u201d schools with their \u201clove of Israel\u201d and now nurtured in the bosom of the Zionist Australasian Union of Jewish Students<\/a>, find their \u201csensitivities\u201d affected by campus protests against Israeli genocide. So as not to upset these sensitive souls, inured to the genocide of lesser ethnicities, campus protests have to be shut down.<\/p>\n

If the Commission is concerned with shoring up the \u2018mental health and wellbeing of [Zionist] Jewish Australians\u2019, it is not an agenda that any Australian imbued with ethical sympathies (which includes anti-Zionist Jewish Australians) could have any tolerance for.<\/p>\n

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\u2018(b) making any recommendations to assist law enforcement, border control, immigration and security agencies…\u2019<\/p>\n

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Is this code for inhibiting access to refugee status of people escaping Israeli onslaughts and who naturally take a dim view of Israel\u2019s modus operandi?<\/p>\n

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\u2018(c) examine the circumstances surrounding the antisemitic Bondi terrorist attack…\u2019<\/p>\n

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This was supposed to be the focus of the Richardson review, but that was merged inappropriately into the Royal Commission\u2019s framework. Now Richardson has retired, recognising the Commission\u2019s structured dysfunctionality. The most important subject for investigation is now without a suitable home and personnel to proceed.<\/p>\n

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\u2018(d) make any other recommendations… that would contribute to strengthening social cohesion…\u2019<\/p>\n

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The means to strengthening social cohesion is to dismantle the pro-Israel lobby in Australia and for the Albanese Government to develop and sustain a principled foreign policy. By contrast, the Terms of Reference of this Commission appear to direct the Commission\u2019s operations to enhance that lobby\u2019s influence and to ignore and to implicitly condone the Government\u2019s cowardice.<\/p>\n

Methinks that the Royal Commission\u2019s slip is showing. One gets the strong impression that one is in for more than farce. Rather, the Australian public is in for an authoritarian state run in the interests of an Australian Zionist mafia, with which the current Australian Labor Government is already in cahoots (and the Liberal Opposition even more craven).<\/p>\n

Dr\u00a0Evan Jones<\/a>\u00a0is a political economist and former academic.<\/p>\n

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