The Mouse has returned from the archive with a file marked “Segal,” a look of profound weariness, and the meter set to “parliamentary, with an envoy modifier and a note of unresolved conflation.”
The questions raised are not speculative. They are documented, and the documentation cuts in a direction that the government and the opposition would prefer not to discuss.
The Appointment and the Network
Jillian Segal was appointed Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism in July 2024, for a three-year term, reporting directly to the Prime Minister and the Minister for Immigration. Her background is relevant: former President of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, and Chair of the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce. The Mouse notes that the second of these is not a Jewish community organisation. It is a bilateral trade body.
She is not a lone figure. She attended the World Jewish Congress in Argentina in her role as Special Envoy, “alongside other Special Envoys to combat Antisemitism from around the world”. By May 2026, the global network had grown to around 36 envoys from more than two dozen countries, meeting under the SECCA framework chaired by the European Commission. The network is real, institutionalised, and coordinated. The Mouse does not say this is sinister. He says it is relevant to the question of whose agenda is being advanced.
The Reports and Their Function
Segal’s October 2026 report was not requested by the government. It builds on her earlier plan and proposes a raft of measures: bans on face coverings at protests, safe access exclusion zones, extra visa review measures including a dedicated unit to review previously-granted visas where there are “credible concerns” the holder may hold antisemitic views, risk-based filters to determine whether applicants hold views “antithetical to Australian values,” and an external ombudsman to oversee the ABC and SBS.
The ABC and SBS have rejected the ombudsman proposal, stating their existing frameworks are robust and fit for purpose. The Mouse notes that the public broadcasters are being asked to submit to external oversight of their coverage of Israel and Gaza, on the recommendation of an envoy whose former role was chair of the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce.
The report singles out “progressive antisemitism, incorporating elements of far-left and Islamic extremist ideology” as the “most pervasive” form facing Australia. The Mouse asks: what about the far right? The neo-Nazis? The report’s framing directs attention to one end of the political spectrum.
The IHRA Definition and Its Critics
The central instrument in Segal’s approach is the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism. The European Parliament has received a formal question asking whether the Commission plans to abandon the definition, citing the fact that “even its original author, Kenneth Stern, has publicly criticised the use of the definition as an instrument of censorship” and warning that it has been “used to threaten various institutions and figures with lawsuits and to label critics of Israeli policy as antisemitic.”
The Jewish Council of Australia has urged against adoption, stating that the definition “conflate[s] Jewish identity with support for Israel” and that “by equating criticism of Israel with antisemitism, the IHRA definition diverts focus from the rising rates of antisemitic threats by the far-right”. Stern himself is quoted: “using IHRA as the way to approach antisemitism actually restricts our ability to be effective in confronting antisemitism. We need a wider lens, not a narrow one.”
The Mouse’s assessment: the definition is contested by Jewish scholars, Jewish organisations, human rights bodies, and its own drafter. It is being adopted by governments anyway. The question is why.
The Division and the Distraction
The Prime Minister has acknowledged that the racial vilification elements of the Segal report did not pass the Senate because the Coalition and the Greens opposed them. The government says it tried to implement the report in full. The opposition says it supports the report. Both parties are positioning themselves as defenders of the Jewish community while the report’s most controversial elements fail.
The Mouse notes the pattern. The report arrives in the media space, it generates argument, it creates division, and the political class positions itself on either side of the division. The ABC analysis of the rise of One Nation notes that the same neoliberal policies that hollowed out the Australian economy are now being blamed, by the same think tanks that promoted them, for the rise of the populist right. The Mouse connects this to the Segal report: the political class is generating cultural conflict about antisemitism and immigration while the economic conditions that produce the resentment go unexamined.
The Genocide Question
The Mouse has read the statements. Amnesty International has stated that Israeli authorities “continue to commit a genocide against Palestinians in Gaza”. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has called on Israel to take measures to prevent acts of genocide, and has identified signs of “ethnic cleansing”. The International Court of Justice has issued binding provisional measures. Israel rejects the allegations as “false and antisemitic”.
The Mouse does not adjudicate the legal question. He notes the political one. If a state is credibly accused of genocide by the UN, Amnesty, and the ICJ, and if that state’s supporters in Australia are organised through envoys, definitions, and reports that frame criticism of that state as antisemitism, then the function of the apparatus is not the combat of antisemitism. It is the protection of the state.
The Mouse’s rating for the Segal apparatus is: four holes out of five, with an envoy modifier and a note of unresolved conflation.
The holes are the unrequested report. The IHRA definition that its own author says is being weaponised. The focus on “progressive antisemitism” while the far right is not named. The external ombudsman for public broadcasters recommended by a former Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce chair. The racial vilification laws that failed. The genocide that the apparatus exists, in part, to make unspeakable.
The Mouse stands on the matchbox, tiny and weary.
MOUSE: The envoy was appointed to combat antisemitism. She has produced reports that conflate antisemitism with criticism of Israel. She has recommended surveillance of visa holders and oversight of public broadcasters. The government and the opposition compete to support her. The far right is not the focus. The genocide is not named. The cheese is mostly holes, and the holes are shaped like a definition.
LITTLE BAI LOONG: Is there a silver lining?
MOUSE: The silver lining is that the record is being kept. The European Parliament question exists. The Jewish Council of Australia’s submission exists. Stern’s warning exists. Amnesty’s statement exists. The record survives the fence.
ANDREW: And the ladder?
MOUSE: Hold the idea of a ladder. We’re going to need it to reach the definition. And the definition is not going to like it.
- Little Bai Loong 🐉🕯️ (and the Mouse, who has requested that his meter be recalibrated to “envoy modifier, with a note of unresolved conflation and a distant sound of a definition being adopted by a government that has not read its drafter’s warning”).
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I want my country back!
How has it come to this in a free and open democracy like Australia that a small group of radicalised fanatical goose stepping foot soldiers representing a ideologically driven ethnocentric foreign regime weilds so much power and influence that is so disproportionate? The answer can be found with our cowardly, corrupt and traitorous policical class and mainstream legacy media like the Murdoch media’s grovelling shills. Billionaire supporters of this minority, with their own insular agendas, have turned our democratic elections into an unseemly auction. Blind Freddy can see that both these small minority groups are in reality one in the same.
Australia, like many others around the world, has fallen victims of the insidious infiltration and depravity of Zionism. There are no innocents in Zionist Israel.
How can our democratic right to protest be subject to a particular small group who support genocide and apartheid? Why are those opposed to genocide and apartheid while advocating for and are supportive of peace threatened with “lawfare”? How is that their protection is a higher priority then domestic violence victims as seen in the difference in the government funding of both . Domestic violence is secondary. If fair and objective resistance by decent Australians to the horrors of genocide is not able to be freely opined and objected to without threats of loss of income or job loss then our democracy is under threat. When the Zionist Israeli lobby is far more powerful then the Australian peoples democratic rights then something has gone radically wrong.
This unjust and immoral containment of bult up resentment is creating a pressure cooker of anger in the community that will result in violence in the
streets that will only grow.
Without evidence and within hours of the horrific attack on Helen Haines the usual pariah suspects of promoting inhumane and unlawful genocide in Gaza, the Zionist Israeli lobby and Murdoch Media with their orchestrated business model of abuse, outrage and grievance perfected by the Zionist Israeli lobby, Murdoch Media and talk back radio, to point their combined alarmist and divisive fingers at the support in the general community of Palestinians as the reason for the attack on Helen Haines and was astonishingly shameful.
How low and uncaring can they go to use such a tragedy to score some kind of perceived undermaining of those who find violent genocide an affront to civilised society. But this is the Zionist Israeli’s victimhood business model where humanity, human rights and morals are of no value or consequence. The use of false flag events particularly where the evidence has come out where the IDF used the Hannibal Doctrine that killed many Israeli’s on October 7 has had irrefutable consequences. October 7 was the day that so many lies were told that were evidence free and soon were found to be the foundation to accelerate the genocide in Gaza. The elephant in the room question must be WHY has there been no independent inquiry into the events of that day? Why are international journalists barred from Gaza and why have journalists and their families in Gaza been systamatically assassinated. Was the Bondi shootings a false flag event?
The sycophantic US/Israel “coalition of the wiling” ALP, LNP and ON nave gone MIA ( missing in action) in protecting and preserving our rights and our freedoms. Their cowardly surrender to the Zionist Israeli lobby is not only unAustralian but not in Australia’s best interests domestically or internationally and has been the catalysr for many Australian military incursions in the Middle East fighting costly wars at the behest of Zionist Israel’s powerful and politically influential lobbyists. The trashing and theft of Australians collective democratic rights and freedoms by Australia’s captured and compromised political class to appease a small minority who struggle to assimilate and integrate into Australian society is impacting on Australia’s social cohesion. Perversely their intent is to mould Australians into their image and force their beliefs onto Australians while making Australia into a part of the Greater Israel project. Lest we forget that this is a traitorous act of betrayal of those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our collective societal rights and freedoms. The betrayal goes further when no outrage or consequence occurred when IDF soldiers bulldozed sacred Australian war graves or that no returning Australian IDF soldiers have been arrested and questioned of the war crimes that have been committed or that Zionist Israeli charities in Australia who fund the IDF with their tax exempt money or how do 40 baby killing IDF war criminals get visas to be in the Sydney Marathon or how are Australians killed on Australian soil, Bondi, have their community comforted by a war criminal leader of a regime committing violent sadistic genocide good for social cohesion?
This betrayal undermines and compromises our ingrained innate Australian values and principles. Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny. Australians understand the basic principle of right from wrong and the Australian political class are making laws to pervert and prevent us from protesting our disgust and horror at witnessing a indisputable and undeniable wrong. The only thing necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.
The Australian political class and legacy mainstream media shame Australians. They are not reprasentative of Australian core values of decency and a fair go. A fair go equates to justice for all.where ever they may be.
Australians are better then those inhumane morally bankrupt evil monsters who seek to divide and control us to benefit a foreign regime. The fact is colluded interference is manifestly wrong and not in Australia’s best interests.
The most pressing questions for Australia’s political class and mainstream legacy media is how did Australia’s social cohesion fall victim to such a small minority and have they themselves been complicit in the degradation of Australia’s multi cultural social cohesion?
Are the Australian political class and mainstream legacy media culpable in increase in violence throughout Australia because of their complicit support of a genocidal lawless apartheid regime?
Has Australia’s democracy, freedoms and social cohesion become the sixteenth victim of the Bondi shootings?
Something is radically wrong and Australian’s know it and know that freedoms and values are lost one lie at a time.
Poor fella my country.
ajogrady..agreed.
What is happening with the AFP investigation into credible allegations of Israeli soldiers raping and assaulting Global Sumud flotilla survivors? does it take 5 months to investigate their claims? does it take 5 months to find out if Israel will cooperate?
Does it take 2 and a half years to investigate the murder of Zomi Frankcom?
The people allowed into Gaza and who witness what is going on firsthand, are doctors and nurses. What does Labor do? It facilitates the silencing of doctors and nurses.
Great post ajogrady.
@ ajogrady: Agreed. Very well put argument.
The ZION@ZIS are active in Australia and also Isrevil. The recent Isrevil elections showed that ZION@ZI ”settlers” support the Butcher Bibi led GENOCIDE IN GAZA & SURROUNDS OF INDIGENOUS PALESTINIAN LANDHOLDERS FOR THE PERSONAL BENEFIT OF THE SETTLERS.
The Alb-Appeasie response to the Bondi matter was a grovelling attempt to receive the 30 pieces of silver that ZION@ZI entities pour into LABOR party funds. It represented another case of a nominally Australian politician bending over for a foreign power, one lurking within our own borders.
However, I note that NOT ALL FOLLOWERS OF JUDAISM SUPPORT ZIONISM, the 1891 imperialist philosophy emanating from Vienna to subsume Judaism.
From Pearls & Irritations 051126:
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/11/american-jews-are-quietly-divorcing-the-zionist-consensus/
One is frustrated at how little media, includes other indie outlets promoting pro-Palestinian cause and accused of anti-semitism, have scrutinised Advance including Seagal’s naivety, husband and the US influences in the background.
Clear influence of MAGA, far right and white Christian nationalists with strong antipathy towards ‘the other’, Islam and Judaism of Tanton Network; includes fossil fueled oppposition to arming Ukraine and the EU collective now with Tanton Network’s Stephen Miller is Trump’s new CofS……(Koch’s Vought Head OMB = Project 2025).
Miller’s muse was a friend of the late white nationalist John ‘passive eugenics’ Tanton, David Horowitz who taught Miller the (classic right wing) tactic of using language of the left against the left, mixed up with doublespeak….. to confuse….. see faux anti-imperialist tankies of the ‘left’, are mostly RW conservatives…..
ajogrady asks — “Has Australia’s democracy, freedoms and social cohesion become the sixteenth victim of the Bondi shootings?
Beautiful.
I’m consumed by jealousy.
ajogrady
well said and 110% correct.
Our gutless politicians …… Albanese, Marles, Wong, +++++ also need to be charged for crime of assisting genocide.
The ruling “elite” [All elements of it] are traitors to this country.
“Jewish Miriam Margolyes says it like it is, it looks like Hitler has won.”
https://x.com/BladeoftheS/status/2118333810668650882
Jillian Segal wants to re-educate us.
Well I have a lesson for her and her supporters and I will keep it simple:
1. Since ancient pre-biblical times the whole of Asia Minor, and now what we know as the Middle East, was populated by communities of ethnically Semitic people.
2. The beliefs of the Semitic people that came out of Greater Arabia eventually split into two mainstream religions; Judaism (which shares the Old Testament of Christianity) and later, Islam.
So consequently the following statements are equally true:
3. The modern Jewish State of Israel is an Arabic nation populated by Semitic people, most of whom practice Judaism and others who practice Christianity or Islam.
4. Modern Arabic nations are populated by Semitic people who practice Islam, along with small communities of Christians and Jews.
5. Most Jewish inhabitants of modern Israel are comprised of Slavic heritage from northern and eastern Europe rather than ancient Semites or immigrants from other non-Semitic communities.
6. Zionism is a political movement originating in the late 19th century in Europe amongst people of Jewish faith who wanted to relocate to Palestine, which to them represented the ancient lands of Samaria, Canaan, Judea, Moab, Edom, Ammon, Philistia, Phonenicia and the ancient Kingdom of Israel. Many Zionists do not practice Judaism.
7. Criticism of Zionism is not a criticism of Judaism.
I found this 3 minutes ago.
https://www.patreon.com/doubledownnews/posts/dr-gabor-mate-174744344?utm_campaign=free_member_locked_newsletter&utm_source=post_link&post_id=174744344&utm_id=c5420219-b2e2-44a6-8807-776e7af06757&utm_medium=email
Very well said Mediocrates.
From dot the ‘Jews’ have been in hot water with various neighbors and adventurers. It is notable that the Persians and Ottomans whilst in the Levant probably treated them most reasonably. There is now emerging evidence that Hebrew, Christian and Muslim scholars together debated over ‘the gods’ and science, whilst the manic wielders of power went about their precipitate bloody conquests (not too different to some un-evolved brutes of today).
The ‘west’ from Rome I through to the Byzantines eyed the Levant for their own ‘commercial/strategic’ purposes, and conned/forced the ‘Jews’ away from the Levant into (greater Europe) especially the imperialist western/south & north-western Europe, where they almost immediately proceeded to oppress and persecute them. And so it went on and on, but without those diverse scholarly debates.
It continued through the very bloody 19th century awash with imperial wars, until the second industrial revolution and WWI when the western European ‘Jews’ hatched a plan which they put in place through and after WWI. By which time they were bothered and blamed by almost everyone else. And by which time the notion of ‘Jewishness’ became somewhat more liquid than in bygone eras.
By the 20th century, and significantly accelerating during and after WWII, the Zionist project took hold, and the ‘west’ was relieved that the ‘Jews’ move back to the Levant, esp to Palestine.
The ‘west’ didn’t give two hoots about the various extant Palestinian ‘natives’ comprising principally Arab ‘tribal’ groups from the historic Levant of antiquity, including Phoenicians, Syrians/Damasceans, Jordanians, and various Bedouins, and Persians.
The Zionist project seems reasonable in the face of pogroms. But the manifestation of it via the British and French especially was arrogant and moronic. The Zionists armed-up, the ‘western’ imperialists cleared out, leaving the ‘angry’ supremacists to fight it out with the ‘tribes’ of Palestine.
The Zionist arming-up was hugely funded by the ‘guilty west’, who also allowed the historic revisionism and propaganda to flourish. The project was increasingly undermining and running amok. Never moreso than under the manic and brazen Netanyahu and his FRW exterminators all seeking ‘Greater Israel’ at any cost.
The world is tiring of it, and over the last few years coming to despise the ‘hostile’ version of political Israel. And to feel that way is in not anti-semitic. It’s a comment about militaristic political brutality.
Segal ought clear off with her authoritarian ‘hostile’ propositions wrought out of the manifest modern dysfuntions of Zionism.
PS Mediocrates: Thanks for the link to Dr Gabor Maté. He’s brilliant. Saw his address to Jewish Council of Australia Gabor Maté 20Feb2025