Fintan McCarthy

Australia's "antisemitism envoy" Jillian Segal has released a new report claiming that the primary threat to Jews in our country comes from left-wing pro-Palestine activists, which Segal hilariously labels "issue-motivated antisemitism". (Genocide. The "issue" is genocide.) This, obviously, is an admission that Jillian Segal's whole entire mission in Australia is to encourage government powers to stomp out pro-Palestine activism and protect the information interests of the apartheid state of Israel. "Modern, progressive antisemitism is the most pervasive manifestation of antisemitism facing Australia today," Segal's report asserts. "It is often not a standalone hatred like the other sources. Rather, it serves to justify and legitimise antisemitism, providing it with intellectual and cultural credibility and, ultimately, making it fashionable. It does this by effectively laundering far-left antisemitism and Islamic extremism through a progressive lens, such as social justice and human rights, together with traditional antisemitic tropes, giving fundamentally extremist ideologies an apparently acceptable face." In a section titled "Far-left antisemitism or issue-motivated antisemitism," Segal's office complains that "Israel is portrayed as a colonial project that is inherently racist," which she says "allows longstanding antisemitic motifs to be repackaged in the academic language of antiracism, decolonisation, human rights, social justice and intersectionality, often in service of a traditional Marxist revolutionary agenda." Here's an excerpt: "Over time, the language of human rights and its greatest crimes – apartheid, ethnic cleansing, genocide, etc. – has increasingly been appropriated to portray Israel (and, relevantly, members of the Jewish community who support it) as morally evil, often to the point of being equated to Nazis. "In contemporary Australia, elements of Australia’s historically fringe radical left have sought to appeal to well-meaning mainstream progressive Australians who may perceive the Palestinian cause as a matter of social justice. This ‘gateway’ issue, of sorts, has been used by far-left activists to magnify their appeal and prominence and to attempt to introduce traditionally moderate Australians to radical and anti-Jewish propaganda that would previously have been of little interest." Segal repeatedly warns that antisemites are guilty of the "conflation" of Jewish people with the state of Israel while also repeatedly going out of her way to lump Jews in with support for the Israeli state, complaining of the view that "anyone who identifies as a Zionist is themselves fundamentally wicked, notably including the overwhelming majority of Jewish Australians who, as an inextricable part of their Jewish identity, hold a belief in the right of Israel to exist." In reality, Israel lobbyists like Segal are the ones who are guilty of conflating all Jews with the actions of Israel. That is what you are doing when you claim that opposition to a genocidal apartheid state is hateful toward Jews. To help curb the actions of the "issue-motivated" antisemites, Segal recommends the implementation of exclusion zones for protesters, a ban on face coverings for demonstrators, extra review measures for people who are in this country on visas, and extra oversight of public broadcasters the ABC and SBS to ensure fair and balanced coverage of Israeli atrocities. Segal also recommends forcing online platforms to adopt "the IHRA definition into community standards and policies for content moderation," which would see people banned from social media for such self-evidently correct actions as comparing Israel to Nazi Germany or saying that Zionism is a racist endeavor. As you might expect, the Australian press are dutifully regurgitating Segal's left-punching propaganda with zero pushback. The Australian ran the story on the new report with the headline "‘Pervasive progressive hate’: antisemitism envoy’s new blueprint," while The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald went with "New wave of Australian antisemitism comes from progressive social justice critics, says antisemitism envoy." I have said it before and I will say it again: anyone who talks about "left-wing antisemitism" like it's a real problem which presents a real threat is a lying manipulator and should be treated as such. They are pretending to believe things that no one actually believes in order to promote the interests of a genocidal apartheid state. Jillian Segal is an immoral, manipulative white South African whose job is to deceive the public in order to facilitate genocide and apartheid. That is the light under which her recommendations should be viewed, and any government which espouses them should be viewed as supportive of the most extensively documented crimes against humanity in the history of the human species.