Show threadEstelle Platini4d ago

Foreign influence in Australia

"The reach [of the Israel lobby] extends into the newsrooms and it has been there for decades. Veteran ABC journalist John Lyons documented it in his 2021 book Dateline Jerusalem, writing that in forty years of journalism he had never encountered a lobby as formidable, well-funded, or relentlessly effective as the pro-Israel lobby in Australia, and that material the lobby succeeded in suppressing here was routinely published in Israel without consequence or controversy."

Andrew Brown: https://michaelwest.com.au/the-enforcement-the-lobby-that-bought-australian-democracy/

#influence #lobbying #media #policing #respectability #Zionism #silencing #PalestinianLivesMatter #fragility #genocide #JewishSupremacy #hasbara #hasbara #grievability #conflation #confusion #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #lineOfColor #Australia #RoyalCommission

Show threadPeter RileyJun 11

https://overland.org.au/2026/06/the-zero-sum-state-what-the-royal-commission-reveals-on-the-future-of-muslim-life-in-australia/

Islamophobia
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-15/islamophobia-report-special-envoy-critical-of-government/106682474

Watermelons
https://www.deepcutnews.com/p/watermelons-deemed-an-antisemitic

#AntiSemitism #Christchurch #Islamophobia #RoyalCommission

The zero-sum state: what the Royal Commission reveals on the future of Muslim life in Australia - Overland literary journal

The zero-sum logic that the Royal Commission’s witnesses have voiced through the IHRA definition is a colonial act of oppression. If the state succumbs to that logic, as every indication suggests it will, Muslim political solidarity with Palestine risks becoming not merely unrecognised but structurally criminalised. The full institutional protection of one community will come to be constitutively built on the misrecognition of another.

Overland literary journal
דער קערפער פֿון השםMay 31

"Is the #Jewish community being seen as too influential?

Not influential in the ordinary democratic sense. Communities organise, #lobby, make submissions, meet politicians, fund causes and argue for their place in public life every day. Business groups do it. Unions do it. Environmental groups do it. Faith groups do it.

But when Jewish organisations do it, the language often changes. It becomes “the #Jewishlobby”, “political pressure”, “powerful donors” or “media influence”. The words may be modern, but the suspicion is old.

That is why this matters to the #RoyalCommission into #Antisemitism and #SocialCohesion.

Antisemitism is not only hatred. It is also an explanation. It gives people a story about who is really behind events, who has too much power, who is protected and who is manipulating the system. It survives because it adapts."

https://www.jwire.com.au/when-jewish-advocacy-is-treated-as-suspicion/

When Jewish advocacy is treated as suspicion

Unpack the uncomfortable discussions about antisemitism and how they affect the Jewish community's role in public life.

J-Wire
Show threadPeter RileyMay 29

#Zionism in real-time: insights from the #RoyalCommission on #Antisemitism and #SocialCohesion
- Nick Riemer May 29 2026
https://overland.org.au/2026/05/zionism-in-real-time-insights-from-the-royal-commission-on-antisemitism-and-social-cohesion/

More writings https://overland.org.au/author/nick-riemer-2/

Zionism in real-time: insights from the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion - Overland literary journal

While the Royal Commission sits, Israel continues to murder and starve Gazans as they try somehow to survive. Since the genocide is, indisputably, the necessary overarching context for a discussion of antisemitism in Australia at the present moment, it is perverse that the Commission has refused to hear from the Palestine solidarity movement.

Overland literary journal
Show threadN3m0May 29
The #RoyalCommission is not limited to antisemitism @TerryBTwo
https://asc.royalcommission.gov.au/publications/letters-patent-royal-commission-antisemitism-and-social-cohesion
Nationalist Zionism being both founded upon and an expression of antisemitism, antiZionism is relevant under article e.
#AusPol #antisemitism #SocialCohesion
@DropBear
The image is from "The Fate of the Jews" by Jewish historian Roberta Strauss Feuerlicht.
AMonkeyInSilkMay 19

The Royal Commission on antisemitism is rapidly becoming a mechanism to police dissent, shield Israel from criticism, and redefine the limits of political speech in Australia.

https://www.newpolitics.com.au/p/palestine-protest-and-free-speech?publication_id=328816&post_id=198351005&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=5l5a31&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

EDDY JOKOVICH AND NEW POLITICS

#RoyalCommission #royalcommissiononantisemitismandsocialcohesion #antisemitism #FreeSpeech #israel #terroriststate #zionism #illegaloccupation @genocide #crimesagainsthumanity #Palestine #auspol #politicalexpression #criticism #propalestine #war #dissent

Palestine, protest and free speech: The real crisis behind the Royal Commission

The Royal Commission on antisemitism is rapidly becoming a mechanism to police dissent, shield Israel from criticism, and redefine the limits of political speech in Australia.

New Politics
Jude🇵🇸May 17

Boosting @AMonkeyInSilk's find from The Shot (with extra hashtags):

The Royal Commission into the Hurt Feelings of Genocidal Psychopaths. #AusPol #Israel #RoyalCommission #antisemitism #Gaza #Palestine
https://theshot.net.au/uncategorized/the-royal-commission-into-the-hurt-feelings-of-genocidal-psychopaths/

The royal commission into the hurt feelings of genocidal psychopaths - The Shot

Over 7400 submissions have flooded into the taxpayer-funded Royal Commission into Antisemitism. The hearings are dominated by sworn evidence from...

The Shot
AMonkeyInSilkMay 17

The royal commission into the hurt feelings of genocidal psychopaths

“The majority of testimony boiled down to one pathetic theme: discomfort at the sight of Palestinian flags and keffiyehs in public, but zero discomfort at the rivers of blood Israel continues to spill in their name.”

https://theshot.net.au/uncategorized/the-royal-commission-into-the-hurt-feelings-of-genocidal-psychopaths/

#theshot #royalcommissiononantisemitismandsocialcohesion #RoyalCommission #auspol #Genocide #israel #freepalestine #Palestine #bondibeachterrorattack #zionism #stateterrorism #gazagenocide #Gaza

The royal commission into the hurt feelings of genocidal psychopaths - The Shot

Over 7400 submissions have flooded into the taxpayer-funded Royal Commission into Antisemitism. The hearings are dominated by sworn evidence from...

The Shot
AMonkeyInSilkMay 13

According to the royal commission into antisemitism and social cohesion Palestinians aren’t part of the social cohesion equation of Australian society.

#auspol #royalcommissiononantisemitismandsocialcohesion #royalcommission #antisemitic #antipalestinian

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/may/14/palestinian-peak-body-refused-leave-appear-at-royal-commission-antisemitism-social-cohesion-ntwnfb?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Palestinian peak body refused leave to appear at royal commission on antisemitism and social cohesion

Australia Palestine Advocacy Network says criticism of Israel is routinely misrepresented as antisemitic – and that Palestinian voices are being excluded from debate

The Guardian
(hurting more people is worse)May 11

We need to throw our the #RoyalCommission and invite #Aotearoa to help us do it properly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V3WS14mkU4

cc other me @kmpiw @kmpiw

About Australia’s Antisemitism Royal Commission

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