In choosing to adopt the controversial & widely discredited #IHRA definition (doing so against the advice of many experts, including the author of the definition, who warns against its use for purposes linked to government regulative activity), the Royal Commission set up by the #Albanese #ALP federal government after the #BondiMassacre has now become the Royal Commission into Criticism of Israel, rather than what it claims to be, a Royal Commission into Antisemitism.

It is not antisemitic to uphold #HumanRights, #InternationalLaw and oppose a #genocide. It *is* antisemitic to conflate legitimate criticism of Israel with hatred of all Jewish people as such.

By making this move, the Commissioner has shifted the focus of investigation away from some of the very factors most responsible for the recent rise in *actual* hatred towards Jewish people as such. This will seriously impede the ability of the Commission to reach useful insights. Instead, it will likely result in shifting blame (implicitly or explicitly) onto those standing up for the lives and dignity of Israel's victims, including onto survivors, as well as relatives and friends of victims of genocide, torture, forced displacement and starvation.

#Auspol #antisemitism #RoyalCommission #definition #racism #hatred #SocialCohesion

#StandingTogetherSydney say #NO to #Herzog in #Australia

#BondiMassacre #AntiSemitism
#GazaGenocide #WestBank #SettlerViolence

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#FreePalestine
#StandingTogether
#TwoStateSolution

#StandingTogetherSydney say NO to #Herzog in #Australia

#BondiMassacre #AntiSemitism
#GazaGenocide #WestBank #SettlerViolence

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#FreePalestine
#StandingTogether
#TwoStateSolution

"The Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) unequivocally condemns the antisemitic terrorist attack at Bondi Beach, and is deeply saddened and heartbroken by the violence directed at a Jewish community gathering celebrating Chanukah. [...] The perpetrators of this horrendous attack do not represent our movement or the values we uphold. Week after week, we have gathered together – the best of our community, from First Nations leaders, members of the Jewish community, side by side with Palestinian siblings, and the wider Arab community, among many other allies from all walks of life. Together, we have insisted on a world that is free from racism and hate. And we will continue to insist that antisemitism, like all forms of racism and hate, has no place in our society."

https://apan.org.au/media_release/apan-condemns-the-antisemitic-attack-at-bondi-beach-and-stands-in-solidarity-with-the-jewish-community/

APAN also responded to some of the unfounded and divisive accusations from #JillianSegal, who again used the platform she was given by the government as Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism to spread #misinformation and push a dangerously undemocratic agenda, all within hours of the massacre.

#antisemitism #MassShooting #BondiMassacre #antiracism #solidarity