Despite the Gaza Holocaust continuing, the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion is being conducted according to the Zionist playbook. It is depressing to watch, but as Jepke Goudsmit writes, there are moments to savour.
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Shamikh Badra argues that when Palestinians are discussed as objects of inquiry, rather than as people with history, political agency and lived experience, the picture will always be incomplete.
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As Israel continues to inflict genocide on Palestinians, in Gaza and the West Bank, Janet Parker argues that it, not the anti-genocide movement, is ultimately responsible for the rise in antisemitism — not what you will hear at the royal commission into antisemitism.
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Islamophobia is a greater problem than antisemitism in Australia today, but government agencies and the mainstream media would have you think the opposite. Pip Hinman reports.
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A rally near the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion protested the conflation of pro-Palestinian voices with anti-Jewish hate speech. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Jepke Goudsmit writes that Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion should have been an investigation into the root causes and persistence of every type of racism in this country, saying exceptionalising antisemitism is a form of racism in itself.
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Shamikh Badra asks if “securitisation”, when a political or social issue becomes framed as an exceptional security matter, is being used to shut down freedom of speech over Israel's war on Gaza.