‘Antisemitism’, a disguised undercover Zionist attack on Australian Universities – political analysis and warning to Albanese – don’t do this!
The Black Fog – If people can’t think for themselves, if they have no independent and cooperative capacity for reason, analysis and moral (ethical) decision making, then we impoverish the whole of society. This is not solely embedded in our genes, it must be nurtured. If we allow this fundamental process to be interfered with, eroded, ceded we become vulnerable to manipulation, corruption, repression and discord, the seeds of dystopia.
‘Universities will be graded on how well they “deal with” protests, encampments and the display of flags as part of a controversial antisemitism report card system adopted by the Albanese government after the Bondi terror attack, according to documents seen by Guardian Australia’.
‘Antisemitism envoy, Jillian Segal, devised the report card system as part of a wide-ranging plan handed down to the federal government last July to combat antisemitism, which also proposed withholding government funding from universities that ‘facilitate, enable or fail to act against antisemitism.’
In the aftermath of the Bondi terror attack, the federal government has fast-tracked its response to her plan.
This is all part of Israel’s ‘grand plan’ to interfere in our academic and public institutions, in conjunction with their antisemitism propaganda. Antisemitism and the contentious and controversial plan are not the principle issues here, nor in Australian society to warrant such a specific plan alongside existing anti-discrimination legislation, which it both contradicts and undermines – and no more so than Islamophobia (internationally defined). But I might concede some sociopolitical power inequities and injustices on that one, especially given it is institutional and ‘radical’ Zionism which are the real enemy here, noting anti-Zionism is not the same as antisemitism, ergo Zionism versus Judaism.
This is a shameless grab to control our independent ‘open’ university educational system already with hands tied behind its back by the imposition of the crippling business model of management our universities have been subjected to, starving of public funding, and raising of student fees mostly under the previous LNP regime.
The agenda here is quite simple – to silence and control our tertiary education system’s independence, freedom of thought, philosophy, discourse and purpose; and more broadly education, information systems and analysis in society, which will undoubtedly seriously erode informed public opinion and the national electorate for generations, who will ultimately be far more easily manipulated and controlled in the longer term, most alarmingly by foreign powers. This is a coordinated campaign in conjunction with mainstream media capture and indoctrination we have witnessed in recent times by private monopolies and mogul ownership, and political interference, puppetry and funding threats to our national broadcaster’s, the ABC and SBS. And now Israel has gone to war on another of our great public institutions, Australian Universities.
This is the Zionist-Israeli warmongering agenda, to throttle global and national criticism of its genocide and war crimes in the Middle East and spread of Zionism, hate, racism, bigotry and hypocrisy across the world, weaponised and funded by the USA. It is deeply sinister. It’s also a classic historical strategy to seize control of both a nation and its narrative. Trump is doing this in America, Putin and the Ayatollah have done it in Russia and Iran, Stalin did it on Ukraine with mass starvation (attacking a lower hierarchy of need), Hitler did it in Germany through indoctrination of the national youth and dissolution and total control of public institutions, which Trump is also pursuing, and as Kim Jong Un has done in North Korea.
On a purely pragmatic level, you do not rate University academic performance and the merit of its contribution to society by how a university measures on implementing an antisemitism plan, mortally plagued with propaganda, motivated by interference of a highly aggressive and predatory foreign power – This is just absolutely insane, and fundamental to understand. But we do expect our public institutions to follow legitimate laws of our country, such as managing (more broadly) racism in a humanitarian and nuanced manner, not as a foot in mouth knee jerk response, when passions and disinformation run high, and which we have already carefully over time put in place. And you certainly do not silence the humanitarian and conscience of a nation by an open attack on voices criticising mass genocide elsewhere in the world – haven’t we learned that lesson?
If Albanese and Labor don’t get this, then we are doubly fucked – if they pursue this course, it seriously undermines freedoms in our society, and it will destroy their election prospects next time round, putting LNP back in the driving seat – staunch protectors and allies of Israel, pathologically Islamophobic, and crippling our sovereignty under the eagle claw of USA, AUKUS and in a future front line confrontation with China, which we have no interest, reason or purpose in, and really don’t want. And of course, this all aligns with the US-Israel hardcore war on the rest of the world and the United Nations which was created to protect it, prevent the horrors of war we are seeing perpetrated by Israel, USA and Russia today.
I am beginning to believe Gillian Segal is an undercover operative for Mossad, and Israeli envoy (not just a radical antisemitism and conflated rubric and ruse), and may not even be at the highest level of our government (but certainly unelected and rigidly alien), other than those who are controlled through political blackmail aka Epstein or other foreign means. Either that or she is a profoundly prejudiced, misinformed and socially ignorant person on a moribund, hateful and destructive personal and political anti-Australian mission.
My question – how would she have obtained so much influence and power in Australian society, if there weren’t far simpler (more obvious) explanations for her meteoric unelected rise, as in a greater power behind her? She is causing serious irrevocable damage to Australian society and social inclusion, and she can’t be doing this alone – The irony and paradox plain to see in Albanese’s declared view and discourse for proceeding with this, which rises like a ghost from the past, like a black fog, and haven’t we been here before in the continuing saga of our colonial history. Such cognitive dissonance, poor judgment and lack of statesmanship – Our sovereignty, dignity and integrity as a nation once more flattened and the people’s voice and rights denied. A sad and more than disappointing spectre after the abuse and aggressive hypocrisy of Christian fundamentalism, gross corruption and insult of the Morrison years. I never expected this, as then we rarely do.
Don’t do this, Albanese! Don’t be a damn fool. Don’t do it!
Contemporaneous references
Australian universities to be graded on how well they deal with protests under antisemitism report card, Caitlin Cassidy, The Guardian, 5 February 2026
Following article: Shades of Terra Nullius, Curious Invitations, Investigations and Genocide 8 February 2026
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Uhm …. to which country do ZIONAZIS owe allegiance; to Australia where they reside, or, to the world-wide ZIONAZI movement that ignores national borders??
NEC If their tributes to the Bondi dead are anything to go by – Israel. Where were the Australian flags? Plenty of Israeli flags, waving freely and menacingly, with no hint of retribution or shame for their disloyalty to the country in which they live.
I’m really not impressed at all by anything that is remotely related to Jillian Segal and her actions in MY COUNTRY.
May I suggest madam, that you return to Johannesburg, South Africa from where you came? That’s the most polite thing that I can say here, however given that you did your initial associate work with another disgraced lawyer, Sir Anthony Mason https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jillian_Segal#Career; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Mason_(judge)#Role_in_the_dismissal_of_Prime_Minister_Gough_Whitlam
As for your terrorism of our education systems, maybe take a leaf from here, as we are the bottom of the barrel so to speak, God knows you’ve done your level best to ensure that people remain ‘uneducated’, however there is such a thing as curiosity.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/once-dismissed-as-westies-these-vce-students-are-soaring-against-the-odds-20251019-p5n3kp.html
The Zionists have picked their mark well, and are playing Albanese like Yehudi Menuin played the violin.
Hi Heather, true said.
Unapologetically, I don’t have access to the Age article, not a great fan, but the occasional article like this might very well be worth reading under your pointer. I also refuse to pay a regular subscription or one off-payment for one unreviewed uncharted fragment of news (don’t know what I’m paying for), which is what pay walls do, they are ultra exclusive, and they leave us blind before taking our money. We don’t do it here neither do the Guardian Australia – I have no patience for the exclusivity, profit and trade practices of paywalls especially when it comes news and internet, which should be in the public view.
But if anyone knows a way round this, so I can see for myself what it says or has a brief synopsis, without encroaching on your time, I’d be most grateful.
Independent media like our beloved AIMNetwork and the Guardian do however deserve our support along with a few other excellent independent Australian networks, and any support we can give them financially would be warmly received. Not a beg of course (we writers and readers do this all voluntarily as does our editor and owner Michael) – just a reminder, to myself included that good journalism without paywalls, gives the public open access, which is to be applauded for the same reasons we need an independent and healthy tertiary education sector, unfettered by foreign interests and interference (of the Jillian kind), much being one of the points in this article and holding back the black fog.
Democracy and society is only as good as it is honest, transparent, responsible, well informed and free to air and available/accessible, not dependent on lining other people’s pockets with hidden agendas and manipulation of public opinion and education, especially billionaires. Billionaires and corporations who’d have us pay for the air we breathe and water we drink on the grounds of staying off their interests in polluting it or freeing us from the burden of nauseating worthless, soul destroying public and private advertising, and selling our private data to the highest bidder for more of it, when we foolishly subscribe private information they do not need.
Black fog everywhere making us cough and splatter, when we could be doing more amazing things.
Jon, a great article.
The Jewish peace activist Israel Shahak wrote an invaluable piece on the history of Judaism and the influence of the Talmud on Zionist thinking today — Jewish History, Jewish Religion : The Weight of 3000 Years.
He explained that a good deal of the antisemitism that developed in Europe derived from the rebellions by the peasant populations against oppression by the nobility, whereby Jews were used by the nobility as their enforcers of oppressive policies.
That’s interesting in itself, but he related to today with this.
The maxim that those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it applies to those Jews who refuse to come to terms with the Jewish past:they have become its slaves and are repeating it in Zionist and Israeli policies.
The State of Israel now fulfills towards the oppressed peasants of many
countries – not only in the Middle East but also far beyond it – a role not unlike that of the Jews in pre-1795 Poland: that of a bailiff to the imperial oppressor.
It is characteristic and instructive that Israel’s major role in arming the forces of the Somoza regime in Nicaragua, and those of Guatemala, El Salvador, Chile and the rest has not given rise to any wide public debate in Israel or among organized Jewish communities in the diaspora.
Even the narrower question of expediency – whether the selling of weapons to a dictatorial butcher of freedom fighters and peasants is in the long term interest of Jews – is seldom asked.
Even more significant is the large part taken in this business by religious Jews, and the total silence of their rabbis (who are very vocal in inciting hatred against Arabs). It seems that Israel and Zionism are a throw-back to the role of classical Judaism – writ large, on a global scale, and under more dangerous circumstances.
As can be imagined, Shahak, who died in 2001, was vilified in Israel, and accused of fabricating some of his criticism of the Talmud.
But as Israeli attitudes to Palestinians slowly seep into public awareness, the balance of probabilities suggests that Shahak fabricated nothing.
Hi Jon, well there used to be an option however from what I’ve just been advised, no go anymore, got banned access from within Aus, however it was https://12ft.io which may work via a VPN.
You may just bump into something!
I am ashamed of being Australian, all those peace loving Judaism devotees who are doing the best to right the wrongs in the Middle East and all the contributors to this site can do slag off at them!!
Face it the Zionists are doing their very best to bring stability to a fractured political system, why else would they want to rule the world?
Remember, God gave them this land and who are we to gainsay God?
Yes Cocky, Harry, Steve, Heather, Jonangel and all – and there’s more…
THE PROBLEM IN AUSTRALIA IS NOT ANTISEMITISM – IT IS ZIONISM AND EVIL IDEOLOGIES OF CLASS, HATE AND SUPERIORITY WHEREVER THEY COME FROM IN A MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY
Forgive my flagging lack of wit, sarcasm and satire right now, though pressed when we are done with truth, facts, reason, empathy and understanding falling onto deaf ears, and I have said a little of this before.
Zionism and its corrupt and highly coercive control over our governments in Australia makes antisemitism look like a light ballet in Hyde Park (which of course it isn’t at all and that is a problem). The hatred, racism and prejudice coming out of Zionist institutions, lobby groups, influencers and individuals is obscene and offensive, and yet our governments do their bidding. We do not conflate or confuse antisemitism with anti-Zionism, ergo Zionism with Judaism – most emphatically chalk from cheese. Only Zionists would attempt to muzzle our public media and tertiary education institutions, manipulate public opinion and capitalise on conflating their arguments and disposition.
But all I see on Jillian Segal’s face and glazed over eyes is hate (loathing), prejudice and arrogance ingrained into her scowling face, for she has worn these attributes for so long like a wardrobe of self-assigned empress clothes, creating a most unpleasant aura around her. I see the same features and aura in other Zionists, influencers and trolls on the internet and our TV screens, some far younger who have nothing pleasant or reasonable to say or contribute to fair society, and project into the world only their self-righteousness, sense of entitlement, and religious-political-moral-class superiority – imposing their radical beliefs, doctrines and consequences of their wretched cursing on all of us. Little wonder we resort to sarcasm, wit and satire. Jillian Segal seeks to put our University sector into a strait jacket defined by conflated antisemitism, debt-collecting and political chains, the seeds of historical abuse and control that have given rise to antisemitism in the past. She does not want educated Australians unless they happen to be Pavlovian Zionists barking at her knees.
Not so all Jewish people and communities (diaspora in Australia) such as the Jewish Council of Australia, who we should be very clear do not support the ideologies of Zionism or current day Israel, and probably have far more claim to their cultural heritage and ancestry than hate smearing Zionists who manifested themselves in the aftermath of WW2, who think they have a right to dismiss and slaughter others on the grounds of some kind of religious or political mission, right or act of God (did I mention hyperbole and irony… perhaps not). We should be clear on this distinction and not tar people with the same brush.
It is the Zionists like Gillian Segal who have wormed their way into our world at the highest levels we should be most concerned about, who are doing the corrupt, divisive bidding of Israel and themselves, not Australia or their fair place within it. They are responsible for the antisemitism in the most part and for making this their excuse for their sorry existence and hate smearing campaigns – they are the propagators of antisemitism- create the problem and offer a solution for a fee or favour – The Jillian Segal recipe. Only they would have any reason or motive, the means and power to manipulate government and public opinion into having specific antisemitism laws to protect their ego, prejudice, lies and end game. No-one, not even regular reasonable minded Jewish people have nor would they expect to have a problem with existing universal anti-racist/anti-discrimination laws – why would they, other than the rebound, threat and risk Zionists are responsible for, and for which the broader diaspora can expect our legitimate concern and support.
Zionism has no place in Australia, just as fundamentalist Muslim, Christian or any other radical, hostile, invasive faith or political, social ideology if we are to preserve multiculturalism, tolerance, respect, civil freedoms, civic responsibility and civilised (social) democracy. The operative definition and understanding is those who hold extreme and radical views, including those who appear on the surface to be conservative, which is a mask to hide their true identity on purpose or because they don’t know any better, while self-proclaimed fascists are more obvious, readily identifiable and visible, and mostly ‘dumb’ as shit. They all carry that rigidity, hatred, cause and mission on their sleeves like they were possessed – this is the face of fundamentalism. No room for reason, justice, compassion, respect, inclusion and authenticity or multicultural society.
This is what our leaders like Minns and Albanese do not appear to understand. I have never heard them acknowledge, articulate or speak it. There is no nuance, wisdom or sensibility in their compulsive knee-jerks to tragic adversity – no depth, little truth, authenticity, patience, wait, assess and understanding but quick on political rhetoric, misspent populism, and compulsive political survival.
Likewise many of our journalists, presenters, directors, producers, powerbrokers and billionaire owners of the mainstream media, and a few other rare and precious jewels who do their damnedest to silence our voice and use their money and status to hijack our democracy, and hard earned civil rights over the centuries.
Who wants to hear the truth when we can be wowed and entertained out of our downtime with obscenely paid gorillas on a playing field or monkeys in casinos. Although I have it on good authority that these two species are considerably more humane than some of whom we speak.
And on Monday, 7 February 2026 we face the utter insanity of a State visit by Isaac Herzog, President of Israel, the guy who signs his name as a public spectacle on missiles destined for and targeting the children of Gaza. Our humble Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese thought it a noble idea for him to repair wounds between Israel and Australia, and shoulder the grieving in Bondi, while Israel continues to pound the hell out of the broken ruins of Gaza, where dozens every day continue to be murdered in his name, since a 4-month old Israeli-defined ceasefire. Who will grieve for them, do they even get buried? Do we even get to know about it today in the aftermath of Bondi? He ought to be arrested under the Geneva Convention, but no the AFP and NSW Police don’t have the stomach for it. They are more interested in chasing peaceful citizens who refuse to be indoctrinated and University campuses for their conflated antisemitism and part in Bondi.
Trigger – Beware these dangerous writers in the world of journalism, Noel Wauchope, The AIMNetwork, 4 February 2026 https://theaimn.net/beware-these-dangerous-writers-in-the-world-of-journalism
There were no “wounds” apart from wounded sensibilities after two years of watching IDF goons bullying kids, women and old folk. Some may have wondered how a person gets so sore over Palestine, but If you see a two or three yo child trying to find its way thru rain and mud, you get sore.
Look, Jon Chesterton wrote a good reply on the thread, so I will leave it be. But it has been disgusting how the government has fallen into line with creatures like Segal.
Parallel and related universe of fossil fueled climate science denial with attacks on universities, science,the enlightenment and free speech.
In plain sight ‘Project Esther’ that has been on Atlas Koch Heritage website since 2024:
From Heritage Foundation
‘Project Esther: A National Strategy to Combat Antisemitism
America’s virulently anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, and anti-American “pro-Palestinian movement” is part of a global Hamas Support Network (HSN) that is trying to compel the U.S. government to abandon its long-standing support for Israel.’
Reported by NYT in 2025:
‘The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement
Even before President Trump was re-elected, the Heritage Foundation, best known for Project 2025, set out to destroy pro-Palestinian activism in the United States….
…..‘But critics such as Mr. Jacoby say the think tank is exploiting real concerns about antisemitism to advance its broader agenda of radically reshaping higher education and crushing progressive movements more generally.
Project Esther exclusively focuses on antisemitism on the left, ignoring antisemitic harassment and violence from the right.‘
This strategy could easily be based on late Weimar era attacks on ‘cultural Marxism’ of the Frankfurt School; proponents complicit on this strategy esp Israeli &/or Jewish heritage, need to be careful they are not next aka ‘They Came’ Niemoller.
WOW!! @ Jon Chesterton: you have excelled yourself; an excellent article.
@ Andrew Smith: Thank you for the further explanation. Here is the Wikipedia link for Project Esther:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Esther#:~:text=Project%20Esther%20is%20a%20project,what%20it%20classifies%20as%20antisemitism.
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‘Join us on Thursday, June 4 for a free symposium at the University of Sydney and online on the current crisis of speech in universities in the global north. All interested members of the public are welcome.
As Israel’s strangulation of Gaza and war on the wider region continues, some conclusions from the last thirty months must now be drawn. One of these is particularly stark: that the primary institutional response to Israel’s genocide from Australia’s universities, as from other universities in the global north, has been a far-reaching, ongoing campaign to stifle dissent and rewrite the principles that govern political expression on campus. If this turn to on-campus authoritarianism is not reversed, the damage to Australian public life will be long-lasting.
As early as April 2024, a UN Special Rapporteur was warning that “The Gaza crisis is truly becoming a global crisis of the freedom of expression.” This warning has been amply borne out at Australian universities, which have seen a barrage of new policies that empower authorities to constrain activism and stifle public discussion. These measures create a climate of heightened surveillance and censorship that severely restrict the ability of staff and students to debate and advocate on the most pressing moral and political crisis of our day.
To break through this imposed silence we invite you to a day-long symposium, to be held in-person and online. Drawing on the voices of ordinary staff members, as well as national and international experts, we aim to set the current crisis of repression at Australian universities in a wider, global context. Panel sessions will address topics including the forms and drivers of the repression of free speech, debates surrounding campus safety and civility, and strategies to resist Zionist censorship on campus. All those concerned for the state of civil and political liberties in Australia and elsewhere are invited to attend.
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