No Room for Antisemitism
No Room for Antisemitism
... but plenty of room for racism
Summary
I attended my fifth ever rally today in Hyde Park in the centre of Sydney, Australia (never mind fifth ever pro-Palestinian rally) - and my first carrying my Scottish flag - proud of what the Scottish Government has done so far for Palestine, covered in the article.
Despite an inclusive and respectful tone from the organisers and the participants - the treatment in the Australian media continues to be awful - the ultimate double-standard, echoing the double-standards of the application of international law to the aggression in Gaza.
Some themes inspired by the day I’ve examined in the article:
No room for antisemitism
The Sydney Opera House debacle
Some children are more equal than others
What’s with the keffiyeh?
Jewish groups fomenting division in Australia
Contents
Introduction
Sunday 10th December 2023, Sydney, Australia
I attended my fifth ever protest today - pro-Palestine protest in Hyde Park in the centre of Sydney, Australia. There were a number of things said today that put a few things into perspective for me.
It was my first rally bringing my Scottish flag - proud of what my native Scotland’s Government has done for the Palestinian cause against the rest of the UK, abstaining votes with the US (more below).
One of the speakers Nasser Mashni of the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) pointed out each of the flags in the crowd and said “it doesn’t matter if you’re Scottish, Irish, Egyptian, Lebanese or wherever - if you’re here - we’re ALL Palestinian” - making us all feel very welcome.
Not a day for Celebration
I did note today was the 75th Anniversary of the signing of the charity of the human rights1 and thought what a nice serendipity standing in solidarity FOR human rights on human rights day.
When you think about it, it’s quite the opposite.
A horrible irony. The organisation that has failed the Palestinians to date through convoluted bureaucracy celebrating “freedom, equality and justice for all”.
And in addition to this 75 years ago in 1948 is also the anniversary of the Nakba when 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their land.
Today with the accepted 1967 borders of the proposed two-state solution it is accepted that land is Israeli (noting 21% of the population in Israel - around 2M people - being Palestinian-Israeli).
But they don’t even have that today with the illegal settlements, and certainly no freedom with the different laws applying to Palestinians wherever they live in the geographic region.
It’s not a cause for celebration.
“There is no room in this movement for antisemitism”
One of today’s speakers as mentioned was Nasser Mashni, of the peak body Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) in Australia. He was representing the Palestinian cause on Australia’s ABC a month or so ago (in a shockingly biased interview) alongside the UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine, Francesca Albanese.
Mashni talked extensively and passionately on antisemitism. He called it out acknowledging Jewish brothers and sisters - as I actually said I hoped they would in my writing from the last rally (reading this are you?!).
I felt quite emotional as I heard the words - well worth watching 🔗👉📺: https://www.facebook.com/sleekit.scotsman2/videos/747187383918934
“don’t put a flag on your car and drive into a Jewish suburb …. they’re Australians, as are we, and they have a right to live here as do we together”
Calling it Out
As an aside on the comment of not putting a flag on your car and driving into a Jewish suburb - ONE person next to me said “why not?” but the crowd turned on him and I shouted “NO” in his face and he got the message. It’s about having the guts to call it out and self discipline the odd idiot you will get in any crowd. This was the only thing today I was uncomfortable with and I will always be the person to call it out.
Inclusivity & A Better Future
Here is a video summary of the rally I put together - aptly for me to George Harrison “My Sweet Lord” - indicating the inclusivity of all religions discussed today and the theme of equality.
Remember - this is nothing to do with antisemitism - it’s anti-Israeli actions as a country. Israel just happens to be a predominantly Jewish country - but that’s irrelevant.
👆📺 Click on images above to play video segment - images from Sydney Pro-Palestine Protest, Hyde Park Sun 10 Dec 2023 📺👆
The tone was a peaceful and decent underlying nature of the rally, despite the chanting and justified anger at times in the face of continued indiscriminate killing by the Israeli Defence Force.
A final quote resonated for me on equality - again from Mashni:
“Peace and security and freedom exists when we live together as equals. When your foot is on my throat you are not equal - you are trapped as I am trapped.
Let me up and stand next to you as an equal and we will build future together that is beautiful for everyone.” - Nasser Mashni, APAN President, 10 Dec Sydney
And what do you get in Return? Racist Abuse.
Worse than awful - and having attended what I thought was a respectful and beautiful rally I was demoralised by the Australian press reports and local pro-Israeli social media.
With REPEATED themes and imagery over and over.
On the tricks of media bias;
What is the most quoted line - often attributed to Lenin but actually from a female colonial era author Isa Blagden writing in 1869 in her novel “The Crown of Life”2:
If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it.
Yet Again - The Sydney Opera House Meme
First off - the utterly deplorable bastards at the Sydney Opera House on 10th December with their antisemitic chants were:
a tiny minority
separate group on the side from the organisers
for a short period of time
told to leave and did so
It is worth showing here AGAIN Palestinian Action Group Sydney organiser Josh Lees putting the record straight on the ABC on 10 October in 30 seconds. This should have put a line under it … but keep repeating the lie…
Yet the damage is done - caught on camera and associated with the whole of the protest movement due to their awful language and the proximity of the national landmark.
This shit needs nipped in the bud and openly talked about as the organiser did today.
It is important to again understand the above context because what you see in the media is blatant association:
The short video played on repeat over and over
Reference in print to “Opera House Protestors” and “Pro-Palestine Organisers in Hyde Park” in the same sentence A LOT
Association with the words “Gas The Jews”, “Death To The Jews” to current protestors long after that isolated event
Comment on the image above: Note Sky News (News Corp) interviewing The Australian (News Corp) Editor. Next time you read a Sky News article - check the source that is quoted - “according to James Morrow, Hamas has … etc.” - James Morrow is a Sky news presenter!
They do this all the time - interview within the News Corp group and present their own news presenters as “specialist opinion”. Not only is it biased, it shows a complete lack of journalistic integrity.
As the Sky News image with the Opera House AGAIN - if the press take time to add
“according to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry” questioning the 18000 deaths in Palestine3
they have time to add
“(noting this group had nothing to do with the Palestinian protest organisers)” to any article showing the Opera House and the idiots shouting vile antisemitic chants - whoever they were (and I hope they get arrested)
Point remains on the ridiculous confirmation bias media narrative.
Politicians also latch onto this generalisation. I note on October 11th in State Parliament the NSW Opposition Liberal Leader MP Mark Speakman called on Labor MP Mark Buttigieg resign after his son attended the rally on 10th October and also demanded Buttigieg ‘disassociate’ from his son.4. Uninformed guilt by association, nothing to do with the minority at the Opera House.
Verifying the Opera House Video: Interestingly - Crikey.com today notes that the Police have asked the group who posted the original video on Twitter - the Australian Jewish Association - to release the unedited footage for the investigation.
They have refused. This doesn’t aid the prosecution as no-one can examine the footage to identify people - never mind verify the authenticity of the recordings5.
The footage has been seen by six million people on Twitter - hence the blinkered view of Australian Pro-Palestinian protest - without correction.
Regardless - the portrayal is just terrible… and results in…
Telling Caricatures
See below from the News Corp owned Weekend Australian newspaper on the day of the rally:
You’ve got the whole gamut here:
All bearded men
Keffiyehs and Muslim clothing
“From The River To The Sea” in the same context as signs “Kill The Jews” and “Death to The Jews”
The Palestinian flag
Seriously - is the above even legal? Imagine if this was the other way around…
Further deeply unpleasant cartoons from The News Corp Australian newspaper resident cartoonist Johannes Leek (notably awarded $40,000 by the Liberal Government a few months before the election that overturned them to paint a portrait of Tony Abbott6)
Interesting repeat of signs in his cartoons - someone clearly has an issue with “Queers for Palestine” - or is that just to exaggerate the fringe groups that attend such protests out of the 30,000 people or so. FFS.
Building a stereotype - rinse and repeat, mention the Opera House why don’t you.
Association with Hamas
By the continued emphasising that the protesters are protesting in support of Hamas you continue to build the association. Blatantly untrue and stated at multiple events but again - if you print the lie enough…
Used in this instance to demonise a the Australian Green Party for having the balls to speak out on pro-Palestinian humanitarian issues and many other human rights and social justice issues:
The uncontrollable Arab
The demonisation of brown-skinned people is horrendous - the automatic association between being an Arab IN AUSTRALIA (!) and being a bloodthirsty murderer and feeling unsafe is shocking.
In the here and now it’s BS. I’m amazed that the 2005 Cronulla Riots7 haven’t been alluded to in any media I’ve seen.
Every newspaper keeps posting the picture of a burly Lebanese man covered in fake blood at the head of the rally. I’m sure he’s a nice guy but it’s rinse and repeat in the press (literally every article on protestors) with the kind of cartoons as above.
The Attorney General of NSW Michael Daley on the isolated incident at the Opera House with the NSW Police and later the Premier told Jewish people to “stay home” - as if the Arab community as a whole could not help themselves and were thirsty for revenge8 - a brutal generalisation.
This is an ongoing narrative. A News Corp Australian newspaper article on 15 Dec noted “Rule of law requires us to defend Jewish citizens”9 continued to foment the fact that Jewish people across Australia require specific protections over the rest of the population.
In the body of the News Corp Australian article itself of course the Opera House is mentioned but this image is used:
The vile implication is clear - that Arab children are bloodthirsty anti-Jewish (not anti-Israeli State policy) next generation haters. Ridiculous.
The generalisation and orchestration of that narrative was called out today with a long list of other unfair and stereotypical representations.
Attacks on Muslims, women in hajibs and so forth are common place in Australia - so much so that like other religious communities including Jewish an Islamaphobia Register and support group has been set up since 2014.
The Keffiyeh
We’ve also seen the demonisation of wearing the keffiyah. I finally bought one today - made in Hebron I note and proud to wear it (even if a Lebanese fellow protestor had to help me arrange it properly! I encourage you to buy one, available at the rally for $40 or donation.
[ Having said that understandable - a Columbian friend came to a Scottish cèilidh (dinner and Scottish dancing) once in the Westin Hotel in Sydney and had a hired a full formal kick outfit. He had no time to work out how to wear it, and came to our table at a black tie ball in his kilt, bow tie and formal jacket, wearing the sporran that should be around the waist over his shoulder like a handbag and the ceremonial knife that should be worn in the sock stuck in his waistband like a bandit! 😆😆😆) ]
The keffiyeh has been called “antisemitic” and “Jewish people don’t feel safe”.
This is not only outrageous but offensive.
In the US, the only Muslim Senator in the Upper House Rashida Tlaib wore the keffiyeh into Congress in 2019 to accusations of supporting terrorism at the time. An AP News Independent Fact Check concluded that the scarf was NOT associated with Hamas and not offensive10.
Having said that - she’s not been treated well during the crisis.
After an emotional appeal to Congress for both Palestinian and Israeli lives on 7 October - soon after she was censured in a vote by the house for terrorist sympathy11 - primarily over calling out Israel’s inhumane treatment of the Palestinians prior to Oct 7 and for sharing a post with “From the River To The Sea”. For essentially echoing statements of the UN and quoting a non-antisemitic chant.
The image below is not from the current crisis, it’s from May 2021 where she and another Muslim Senator Ilhan Omar spoke out against Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian Territories12.
I’ve written extensively on the weaponisation of antisemitism - including in Congress, but also the UN, Hollywood and how lobby groups leverage this here:
Weaponisation of antisemitism in US Institutions:
Back to the keffiyeh on our shores.
We’ve seen the Sydney Theatre debacle where the actors on a curtain call came on wearing keffiyehs.
I don’t personally agree with this - it’s a symbol of Palestine for paying customers who have no option but to watch and can you imagine the reaction if the actors came out wrapped in Israeli flags? Same principal - it would offend Palestinian or pro-Palestinian theatre goers - for me, they shouldn’t have done it - it might be offensive to some Jewish people but it wasn’t threatening nor antisemitic.
A tremendous letter written to the STC by a 54 year old Jewish person whose grandparents were holocaust survivors deploring the association with antisemitism is here, worth reading and also quoted in the Australian Financial Review in an article on the incident - fair play to balanced reporting for once13. The letter is quoted, reiterating by Jewish musician Peter Hollo:
Again - whilst I don’t agree with what they did - it’s an over-reaction to a piece of cloth historically worn in the region.
Related to the keffiyeh … (I’ll get there …!)
Taking a side: The Opera House lit up in Israeli flag colours
You can’t cite precedent saying the Opera House is lit up for other similar events.
Other events are indisputable single-cause tragedies - not involving an ongoing conflict per se - e.g. the Paris terror attacks, the chemical blast in the port warehouse in Beirut. This is a conflict between two sides with a long history - unlike say Ukraine (also lit up) in a surprise attack from another State - completely different.
Wembley Stadium in London one week after for the England v Australia game on 13 Oct refused to light up the arch in the colours of the Israeli flag.
The reason was balanced sensitivity. Australia were due to go on and play Palestine and Lebanon and the FA wanted to maintain neutrality for them.
However - there was a minute’s silence for the deaths on October 7th AND all the players wore black armbands14.
Such a stink was kicked up over this perfectly balanced approach - which regardless of the Australian games should have been the appropriate response anyway - that Wembley have instilled a ban on the arch ever being lit up in solidarity gestures in future, to appease the complaints15.
Particularly ironic when Israeli authorities have bans and restrictions on the Palestinian flag itself in Israel and the Occupied Territories16.
Other triggering symbols?
And - if the keffiyeh is seen as threatening, with the bloodshed and murder going on in Gaza now and over the years… do you think there’s a chance Palestinian diaspora might view the Israeli flags wrapped everywhere, projected onto the Opera House as a symbol of oppression and with fear and trepidation themselves? There may be people genuinely traumatised, sending a shiver down their spine when they see it.
Or are the Palestinians heartless inhuman animals not capable of such feelings?
Who has called Palestinians (NOT Hamas) “animals”
“human animals” - Yoav Gallant - Israeli War Minister
“they are animals” - Amir Maimon - The Israeli Ambassador to Australia on ABC 10 October“
And also:
“Palestinians are children of darkness” - Benjamin Netenyahu - Israeli Prime Minister17 (now deleted tweet)
"dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza is an option - they can go to Ireland or the desert, the monsters in Gaza should find a solution by themselves” - Amihai Ben-Eliyahu - Israeli Heritage Minister Nov 5 202318
Food for thought.
Some children are more equal than others
One particular note from a speaker at the Sydney protest was on the ignorance of individual suffering from the media - until they have something they can package up.
We’ve seen blanket coverage of human stories of the poor hostages, and families from the horrible events of October 7 - but when do you see human stories from the suffering in Gaza?
Of particular note was the Press Conference that children had to give outside the Al-Shifa Hospital on 10 Nov pleading for peace and for Israeel to stop it’s bombardment19. Notably the only news outlet to put the video on YouTube was Al Jazeera English.
"They lied to the world that they kill the fighters, but they kill the people of Gaza, their dreams and their future. Kids of Gaza run out of their hopes and wants."
“We come now to shout and invite you to protect us.”
"We want to live, we want peace, we want judgement for the killers of children. We want shelter, food and education, and we want to live as the other children live."
Cynically - staged by Hamas? But then - the narrative of “dismantling” Hamas with the current action is patently untrue - from multiple sources including increased criticism from the US20.
The saddest comment from a speaker today - “a bunch of children had to hold a press conference in a language other than their own in order to be heard”.
On Nov 10 when the Press Conference took place the CHILD death toll then was 4,324. Now on 13 December it is around 7,000 (not including those missing under rubble).
I saw this post yesterday from the Israeli Government public affairs office, shared by a local pro-Israeli organisation.
Referring to the camps from Oct 7 when the horrendous slaughter of men, women and children took place. It takes a particular kind of cold blooded killer to look a child in the eye and murder them - but a murderous bombardment has the same terrible end result yet massively disproportionate.
It would be difficult not to feel an urge for revenge on reading the coverage of the disgusting event21 but is is how that justice is meted is what makes a nation fit to stand with the world. I hope those murderous bastards from the 7th receive their justice as the ICC investigates22, just as I hope the Israeli decision makers receive the same.
Jewish groups fomenting division in Australia
Calling out a group of people as all having the same behaviour is grossly unfair. In fact, it is clearly defined in a globally recognised 2016 statement.
The statement is in fact the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism23 and the group in this case being “all Jewish people” and grossly unfair in this case being “antisemitic”.
And incredibly this confusing and inflammatory grouping of all Jewish people in Australia behind Israel continues.
The President of the Zionist Federation of Australia Jeremy Leibler (son and fellow law firm partner of the Chairman of the AIJAC who pay for MPs to travel to Israel, including a group of MPs last week) shared this wholly inappropriate article in a tweet24 on 15 Dec.
It has an image of a visiting Israeli soldier waving an Israeli Flag in front of the Opera House:
The impacts and implications are:
Inflammatory and offensive to the Palestinian and pro-Palestinian Community (and probably decent humanitarian Australians): an Israeli IDF soldier visiting and waving an Israeli Flag in front of the Opera House? “reclaiming” back from the few racist idiots on the 9th. Really…?
Exclusivity - the article’s whole premise “Rule of Law requires us to defend Jewish Citizens“ - calls out only Jewish people in Australia as worthy of protection. Pre-October 7th there is already (quite rightly) a huge taxpayer funded security budget allocated to Jewish institutions for protection and racism across Australia as noted is across multiple religions.
Conflating Israel with all Jewish people - you don’t see protestors waving the flag of Palestine and saying “all Muslims”. The fact that it’s referred to as “The Jewish State” is irrelevant - plenty of Jewish diaspora who don’t support what Israel is doing #notinmyname. So this statement is not only incorrect - it’s inflammatory towards the local Jewish population and goes directly against the IHRA definition above by calling them out as a collective.
The article is written by Chris Merritt, vice-President of the Rule of Law Institute of Australia (non-Paywall text of the original article and PDF of the Australian article is on the website25). Is is unclear who funds this institution after investigations by the Australian Financial Review26 and Crikey27. It would be interesting to see the relation between this institution and the law firm employees associated with ZFA and AIJAC.
ℹ️ Article on the IDF Major invited to speak in Australia with photo ops and fundraisers:
The overall point on demonising Arabs - as the IHRA definition on generalisation and holding a collective responsible - DON’T DO IT. To do otherwise is hypocritical and fomenting division and conflict.
My Epiphany
It might sound strange, but I had honestly never considered racism in the Palestinian cause until today until a speaker specifically mentioned it.
I considered what I’d seen in the press over the last two months, the grossly unfair treatment of Palestinians documented extensively - and more broadly the inaction of the West when it comes to Arab problems (or at least a certain sort of non-oil producing Arab) - but leaping into action when it comes to Western countries, Ukraine etc.
I’d thought it was simply injustice through the treatment of Palestinians over land - but it’s more than that. It’s a definite privilege and supremacy - more so than equality and human rights.
When you contrast the demonisation of not just Palestinians, but the Arab world in support and the manipulation to find any ‘dirt by association’ - the opera house debacle, antisemitism at the drop of a hat, association with Hamas - even disgustingly at the UN evoking the Holocaust28 - the speakers words today hold true;
“ours is a movement of love - there’s is of HATE, supremacy and exclusion”
Exactly right.
I’m never going to go to the route of in the same breath as supremacy comparing the Israelis to the Nazis - which is indisputably antisemitic and not true at all (and I’ve pulled up people on this whenever it’s been alluded to).
But the superiority looking down on Arabs is blatantly obvious - and not just in the sense of Palestinian lives being less equal than that of Israelis.
And it’s indisputable - documented by multiple global organisations UN and NGOs over the years, in addition to multiple United Nations Resolutions. It is international law and the reports are telling (I’ve gathered a summary position with links to reports in a post here).
I honestly had an epiphany on this racism - reinforced in the following days as I looked at the disgusting reporting, television and social media. I can see the patterns and I can see it EVERYWHERE clearly now.
I can’t unsee it.
It’s more than just the obvious “News Corp media outlets are biased” - we know that, and I’ve been closely following and writing about this in a different campaign not specifically about Palestine.
It’s a broad-brush racism associating Arabs with terrorism.
Related Articles
Substack
Weaponising Antisemitism & Media bias; lobbying groups, UN antisemitism calls, Hollywood antisemitism bias:
US Political Resolution: on calling EVERTHING antisemitism - Congress equating Anti-Zionism with Anti-Semitism:
Scottish First Minister (Humza Yousaf) on the 21 Nov ceasefire vote for Gaza:
ℹ️ Article on the IDF Major invited to speak in Australia with photo ops and fundraisers:
NewsCorp - Dirty Tricks in Journalism: a case study in how they manipulated the media landscape around the Aboriginal Voice vote. Template for similar tactics demonising Palestinian protestors:
Other
Facebook Livestream of today’s rally (hosted by ) Sydney Community Studio - https://www.facebook.com/SCSNEW.AU/videos/1118913749075326/
UN Human Rights Page - https://www.un.org/en/observances/human-rights-day
Google Books The Crown of Life by Isa Blagden (1869) - https://books.google.com.au/books?id=EtoBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA155&dq=lie+repeated+often+enough+becomes+truth&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=lie%20repeated%20often%20enough%20becomes%20truth&f=false
BBC News - 16 Nov “How the dead are counted in Gaza“ - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67347201
11 October 2023 - News.com.au “Labor MP Mark Buttigieg implored to ‘disassociate’ from son who attended Sydney pro-Palestinian protest“ - https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/politics/labor-mp-mark-buttigieg-implored-to-disown-and-disassociate-from-son-who-a-sydney-propalestinian-protest/news-story/090cd7e8f9c981909a4b1b20c8844ee1
Crikey.com - 13 Dec 2023- “Viral footage showed protesters chanting ‘gas the Jews’. Nobody can verify it“ - https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/12/13/viral-footage-gas-the-jews-police-factcheckers-unverified/
The Guardian 9 Feb 2021 - “Johannes Leak awarded $40,000 commission for Tony Abbott's official portrait“ - https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/feb/09/johannes-leak-awarded-40000-commission-for-tony-abbotts-official-portrait
National Museum of Australia - “Defining Moments: Cronulla race riots“ - https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/cronulla-race-riots#:~:text=On%204%20December%202005%20a%20fight%20broke%20out,media%20fuelled%20a%20week-long%20campaign%20of%20moral%20outrage.
Daily Mail 10 Oct 2023 - “Israel-Palestine protest: NSW Attorney General Michael Daley 'unaware' of Sydney Opera House protest 12 hours after it happened“ - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12612619/Opera-House-protest-Israel-flag-Michael-Daley.html
The Australian newspaper 15 Dec 2023 - “Rule of law requires us to defend Jewish citizens“ - https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business//legal-affairs/rule-of-law-requires-us-to-defend-jewish-citizens
AP News Dec 19 2019 - “Michigan congresswoman’s scarf is not a symbol of ‘Hamas terrorists’“ - https://apnews.com/article/archive-fact-checking-8335620018
New York Times 7 Nov 2023 “House Censures Rashida Tlaib, Citing ‘River to the Sea’ Slogan“ - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/07/us/politics/tlaib-censure-house-israel-gaza.html
The Floridian Press - May 13 2021 - “Israeli-Palestinian Violence Divides Congressional Democrats“ - https://floridianpress.com/2021/05/israeli-palestinian-violence-divides-congressional-democrats/
Australian Financial Review Nov 29 2023 - “STC issues apology amid fury over pro-Palestine protest“ - https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/arts-and-culture/stc-issues-apology-amid-fury-over-pro-palestine-protest-20231129-p5entu
GB News 19 Oct 2023 “Football news: FA explain refusal to light up Wembley for Israel after Hamas terror attacks“ - https://www.gbnews.com/sport/football-news-fa-wembley-israel-hamas
Times of Israel 23 Nov 2023 - “UK’s Wembley Stadium to end solidarity illuminations after not lighting up for Israel“ - https://www.timesofisrael.com/uks-wembley-stadium-to-end-solidarity-illuminations-after-not-lighting-up-for-israel/
Amnesty International Jan 11 2023 - “Israel/OPT: Flag restrictions are the latest attempt to silence Palestinians and reduce their visibility“ - https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/01/israel-opt-flag-restrictions-are-the-latest-attempt-to-silence-palestinians-and-reduce-their-visibility/
The Guardian 13 Nov 2023 - “When Palestinians tell the world what is happening to them, why are they met with disbelief?“ - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/13/palestinians-world-israel-carnage-gaza
Times of Israel 5 Nov 2023 - “Far-right minister: Nuking Gaza is an option, population should ‘go to Ireland or deserts’“ - https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/far-right-minister-nuking-gaza-is-an-option-population-should-go-to-ireland-or-deserts/
The Standard - 10 Nov 2023 - “'We want to live': Children in Gaza hold a press conference pleading for peace“ - https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/gaza-israel-palestine-children-hostages-war-b1119291.html
The Intercept Dec 11 2023 - “This Is Not a War Against Hamas“ - https://theintercept.com/2023/12/11/israel-hamas-war-civilians-biden/
BBC 20 Oct - “Israeli community frozen as Hamas atrocities continue to emerge“ - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67165128
Human Rights Watch website Oct 18 2023 - “Israel/Palestine: Videos of Hamas-Led Attacks Verified“ - https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/10/18/israel/palestine-videos-hamas-led-attacks-verified
International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) website - working definition of antisemitism 2016 - https://www.holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definitions-charters/working-definition-antisemitism
Jeremy Leibler President of the Zionist Federation of Australia tweet 15 Dec 2023 -https://twitter.com/jeremyleibler/status/1735535691885633825
Rule of Law Institute Website - reproduction of Australian Article 15 Dec 2023 - “The Rule of Law requires us to defend Jewish citizens“ https://ruleoflawaustralia.com.au/commentary/rule-of-law-requires-us-to-defend-jewish-citizens/
Australian Financial Review Nov 21 2021 - “Who is funding the ‘mysterious’ Rule of Law Institute?“ - https://www.afr.com/rear-window/who-is-funding-the-mysterious-rule-of-law-institute-20211129-p59d5r
Crikey.com Aug 13 2017 - “Just what is the Rule of Law Institute?“ - https://www.crikey.com.au/2017/08/31/just-what-is-the-rule-of-law-institute/
The Straits Times 30 Oct 2023 “Israel envoy wears yellow star at UN, drawing criticism from Holocaust memorial centre“- https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/israel-envoy-wears-yellow-star-at-un-drawing-criticism-from-holocaust-memorial-centre