Jews come from many countries.
I have a problem with the Israeli government, as I do the American government.
It’s a big factual difference to what Ms Segal interprets from her Harbourside mansion.
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Segal suggests, at the very least by inference, that antisemitism is the most dangerous form of racism in contemporary Australia. Accordingly, her report calls for action against antisemitism in ways that go beyond any protections offered any other group. This “privileging” of antisemitism is absurd. The most dangerous form of racism in Australian history and in contemporary Australia is anti-indigenous racism, something one still reads about every day.
On October 7 1,200 Israeli Jews were murdered and 250 taken as hostages. In response the Israeli armed forces have slaughtered at least 60,000 Gazan Palestinians, and more likely >100,000, the majority of whom were entirely innocent women and children and also men. More than double that number have been seriously wounded with only the slimmest hope of medical aid. The modus operandi of the Israeli armed forces, the self-congratulatory supposed “
most moral army” in the world, has been ratios of 20 or 50 innocent Gazans killed, as regrettable “collateral damage”, in pursuit of one member of Hamas. Food, fuel, water, medical supplies have been cut off for significant periods of time. Seventy percent of buildings in Gaza, including hospitals, universities, schools and administrative facilities have been systematically reduced to rubble.
Australians have been able to observe what Israel has done to Gaza on social media and on their television screens, even though journalists are forbidden entry into Gaza,
for their protection of course. The more politically engaged or savvy among them will have noticed that not one of the many powerful Jewish organisations in Australia—including the Executive Council of Australian Jewry on whose Board Jillian Segal once served as President—has condemned or even questioned the almost unbelievably pitiless brutality of the post-October 7 Israeli destruction of Gaza.
Having failed to mention the self-evident cause of the relatively modest rise in antisemitic feeling, antisemitism is treated in Segal’s report as the most dangerous and insidious form of racism in contemporary Australia. Accordingly, the Segal report suggests measures whose censoriousness goes beyond anything in Australian legal history.
- Robert Manne ( Australian Jewish Academic) yesterday.
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