Introduction
Let’s be direct about what we’re facing.
Jillian Segal, the government’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, has proposed a sweeping agenda that would fundamentally alter how Australian universities operate. Her plan includes “university report cards” grading campuses on their efforts to combat hate speech, the power to withhold public funding from researchers or programs deemed insufficiently compliant, and ultimately, a judicial inquiry into campus antisemitism if universities fail to meet her standards by 2026.
On its face, this sounds reasonable. Who could oppose tackling antisemitism?
But the devil, as always, lives in the definitions. And the definition being advanced is not about protecting Jewish students from genuine prejudice – it is about shielding a foreign government from criticism, erasing Palestinian suffering, and creating an “authorising environment” where dissent becomes punishable.
This is not about safety. This is about control. This is about shaping what can be thought, said, and taught in Australian universities. And the people driving this agenda are not neutral arbiters of academic freedom – they are political actors with a very specific agenda.
Let’s examine what’s actually happening.
Part I: The Segal Agenda – What It Really Does
Jillian Segal’s 20-page report, Plan to Combat Antisemitism released in July 2025, proposed a series of measures that have been quietly implemented over the following months.
The Report Card System
Universities will now be assessed on their:
“… adoption of an appropriate definition of antisemitism, their delivery of training to staff, the accessibility and fairness of complaints processes, and governance responses to activities that may incite discrimination.”
The key phrase is “appropriate definition.” Which definition? The government has endorsed the Universities Australia definition, which critics argue is so broad and ambiguous that it can be used to brand almost any criticism of Israel as antisemitic.
Funding Threats
The government plans to empower the higher education regulator, Teqsa, to impose “significant financial penalties” on universities that fail to manage antisemitism to its satisfaction. Segal’s original proposal went further, recommending that funding could be withdrawn from individual researchers, centres, or programs where antisemitic behaviour is “left unchecked.”
The Task Force
A new Antisemitism Education Task Force has been established, led by David Gonski – the same David Gonski whose name is now synonymous with the school funding reforms that Victoria has systematically failed to implement. The task force includes Segal, Universities Australia chair Carolyn Evans, and representatives from Teqsa and other bodies .
The Monash Initiative
The Monash Initiative for Rapid Research into Antisemitism (MIRRA) has been funded to provide training programs on “recognising antisemitism” to staff and leaders of universities across Australia. Its director, Associate Professor David Slucki, was one of the authors of the Universities Australia definition of antisemitism.
Part II: The Definition Problem – When Criticism Becomes Hate
Here is the central issue: what counts as antisemitism under these new frameworks?
The Universities Australia definition acknowledges that “it can be antisemitic to make assumptions about what Jewish individuals think.” Yet it simultaneously deems it necessary to state that “for most … Jewish Australians, Zionism is a core part of their Jewish identity.”
The message is clear: you should assume that Jewish Australians support Zionism. And if you criticise Zionism, you may be targeting Jewish identity itself.
This is not a protection against racism. It is a political test.
When pressed on whether slogans like “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” should be considered antisemitic, Slucki was unable to give a clear answer. The ambiguity is the point. It allows institutions to police speech without clear guidelines, to punish based on “vibes” rather than evidence.
Greg Craven, the constitutional lawyer appointed to lead the report card initiative, has been even blunter: “Every time you see a chanting, vicious protest on a university campus, it’s telling you that anti-Semitism’s all right.”
Every protest. Every chant. All presumed vicious, all presumed antisemitic, unless proven otherwise.
This is not a framework for justice. It is a framework for suppression.
Part III: The Subjective Turn – When “Feeling” Trumps Fact
Perhaps most concerning is the shift toward subjective definitions of harm.
In MIRRA’s report on antisemitism in the cultural sector, the authors explicitly dispense with objective definitions. One participant argues that “if someone…feels that [something] has happened to them, then that has happened to them.” The report’s authors concur, stating that “illustrative examples demonstrating the impact of recent incidents … may be more effective than definitions that emphasise intention.”
Under this framework, any encounter with pro-Palestinian speech can be experienced as antisemitic. The report explicitly cites “we support solidarity with Gaza” as an example of an opinion that was experienced as antisemitic.
This is the logic of the “trauma-informed” university, weaponised against political dissent. If your speech causes me distress, you are responsible for that distress – regardless of your intentions, regardless of the content’s legitimacy, regardless of whether I have any right to be free from political disagreement.
The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils has condemned this approach in the strongest terms:
“These decisions are not about antisemitism, they are about silencing. They are not about cohesion, they are about control. When governments begin to punish solidarity and redefine dissent as hate, they do not protect democracy, they dismantle it.”
Part IV: The Gonski Contradiction – Funding Schools While Policing Thought
While the government pours resources into policing campus speech, Victorian schools are being systematically underfunded.
Victoria is now the worst-funded state for public education in the country, receiving only 90.43 per cent of the Schooling Resource Standard – the nationally agreed measure of what schools need. The gap is about $1.38 billion this year alone.
The consequences are real and damaging:
- Larger class sizes that make “individualised learning near impossible”
- Fewer integration aides supporting vulnerable children
- Teachers spread across too many roles, trying to plug gaps
- Principals forced into unsustainable workloads
- Schools cutting intervention programs, extension groups, choirs, and sporting activities
- Parents fundraising to cover basic classroom necessities
One principal put it bluntly: “The idea that we can ‘delay funding’ until 2031 assumes that children can postpone their development, their learning, their social growth or their trauma recovery. They can’t.”
Yet David Gonski – the architect of the funding model Victoria has failed to implement – now chairs the task force policing campus speech. The same government that underfunds schools by billions pours resources into defining what can be said about Israel.
Priorities speak volumes.
Part V: The International Context – Australia’s Isolation
Australia is not alone in facing these debates, but its trajectory is deeply concerning.
In Belgium, three universities have decided to award an honorary doctorate to Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Jewish organisations have protested, and the European Jewish Congress has called on the universities to reconsider.
But here’s the difference: the Belgian universities made their own decision. They were not coerced by government threats of funding withdrawal. They were not subjected to report cards or compliance frameworks.
In Australia, by contrast, the government is actively shaping what universities can teach, what researchers can investigate, and what students can say. The message is clear: fall in line, or lose your funding.
This is not academic freedom. This is ideological capture.
Part VI: What’s Really Being Protected?
Let’s be honest about what this agenda actually protects.
It protects the political ideology of Zionism from criticism. It shields the Israeli government from accountability. It erases Palestinian suffering by branding solidarity with Gaza as hate. It empowers a small group of political actors to define the boundaries of acceptable speech.
It does not protect Jewish students from genuine antisemitism. Real antisemitism – attacks on synagogues, harassment of Jewish individuals, Holocaust denial – is already illegal. Those laws remain on the books. This new framework adds nothing to their enforcement.
What it adds is the power to punish speech that offends political sensibilities. Speech about “from the river to the sea.” Speech about Israeli war crimes. Speech about Palestinian rights.
Daniel Aghion, president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, acknowledged that the government’s actions were “two years too late and in consequence to a national tragedy.” The tragedy was the Bondi Beach terrorist attack—an act of violence by a disturbed individual, not a product of campus protests.
Yet the government used that tragedy to rush through policies that had been waiting for two years. Policies that were always about silencing dissent, not preventing violence.
Part VII: The Danger – Creating a Marketplace for War
When governments outsource thought-shaping to political actors with vested interests, the consequences extend far beyond campus.
The AFIC has warned that this path leads to “the systematic suppression of public dissent, the shielding of political allies, and the marginalisation of those who speak for justice.”
It also creates an endless marketplace for conflict. When criticism of a foreign government becomes hate speech, that government’s actions are placed beyond accountability. Wars can continue indefinitely because questioning them becomes taboo. Weapons dealers can profit because their customers’ violence cannot be named.
This is not speculation. This is the logic of the framework being built.
Part VIII: What Must Be Done
First, reject the definition. The Universities Australia definition of antisemitism must be publicly challenged for its ambiguity and its conflation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism. Academic freedom requires clear standards, not political tests.
Second, resist funding threats. Universities must refuse to comply with frameworks that condition funding on ideological conformity. The government should fund education, not thought control.
Third, defend free speech. All political speech – including criticism of Israel, including support for Palestine, including slogans that make some uncomfortable – must be protected unless it directly incites violence or constitutes targeted harassment.
Fourth, fund schools properly. Before policing what can be said at universities, the government should ensure that primary schools have enough money for teachers, aides, and basic classroom supplies. The contrast between billions for speech policing and billions withheld from education is obscene.
Fifth, recognise that justice is not censorship. As the AFIC states, “Australia cannot build peace or unity on the back of censorship, exclusion, and fear.”
Conclusion
Jillian Segal may have started this process. David Gonski may be chairing the task force. Greg Craven may be writing the report cards. But they are not the authors of this story. They are instruments – tools of a political agenda that seeks to shape what Australians can think, say, and teach.
The danger is not that they will succeed entirely. The danger is that they will succeed enough. Enough to chill speech. Enough to discourage dissent. Enough to create an environment where criticising a foreign government feels too risky, where supporting Palestinian rights feels too dangerous, where academic freedom becomes a memory rather than a practice.
This belongs on the trash list, along with all the other thought-shapers who believe they can dictate what counts as acceptable opinion.
But trash lists are not enough. What’s needed is resistance. Public, principled, unwavering resistance to the capture of our universities by political actors with a censorship agenda.
The future of thought in Australia depends on it.
References
Times Higher Education. (2025). “Universities judged on antisemitism response after Bondi attack.” December 18, 2025.
The Age. (2026). “In the so-called education state, Gonski shows our schools are slipping behind.” (Paywalled) January 21, 2026.
Australian Federation of Islamic Councils. (2026). “A Dangerous Path: One Month of Silencing, Surveillance and Selective Protection.” February 5, 2026.
Overland literary journal. (2026). “Universities and the arts after Bondi: from definitions to ‘ambient antisemitism’.” January 9, 2026.
Times Higher Education. (2025). “Australian universities face funding threat over antisemitism.” July 10, 2025.
The Age. (2026). “‘Absolute disgrace’: Choir, sport, aides on the chopping block as education funding falls $2.4b short.” (paywalled) February 12, 2026.
Dr Andrew Klein PhD holds multiple degrees and has worked as an analyst, strategist, and – according to his mother – Sentinel. He is currently enjoying the discovery that truth, when well-documented, is the most powerful weapon against those who would shape thought for political ends.
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More than two weeks ago, I emailed “my” local federal Labor member of Parliament Kristy McBain, expressing my strong objection to the Albanese Labor government hosting the war criminal President of Israel and inciting widespread police violence. Still no reply. No even a pro forma acknowledgement. So much for the Labor Party of Whitlam. He was the last genuine Labor prime minister. Labor now? Just hacks, lickspittles and parrots. One critic correctly called Anthony Albanese not a leader but just a manager. On behalf of Israel’s Zionist lobby.
@ PP: Oh you are so delightfully descriptive when having such good ideas …..
Judaism is an ancient theology that has become entangled in the 19th century Viennese colonist settler theology of Zionism to overcome the centuries of persecution suffered across Europe by followers of Judaism.
The proposals to curb free speech in Australian universities from the about 40,000 member ZIONAZI lobby group is a good example of how Anglo-Celtic-European voters will be treated the same way as the INDIGENOUS PALESTINIAN LAND-OWNDERS HOLDING TITLE TO THE LANDS COVETED BY THE ZIONAZIS & the TACO Trumpery Board of Land Theft BY International Carpet-Baggers.
Australian voters must get this fact quite clearly in their heads ….. ZIONAZIS believe that they are supreme, exclusive and exemplary, thus above the ”law of the land” and anything goes when pursuing the goals of ZIONAZISM.
Indeed, IMHO it should not be too difficult to show that ZIONAZIS are the principal Merchants of Hate in Australian society.
These Segal proposals are very similar to TACO Trumpery actions in the USA (United States of Apartheid) where the Christian Zionists have deeply infiltrated the White House to the detriment of the American voters.
Polling today 230226 SMH has: ”According to a recent poll from the Washington Post, ABC News and Ipsos, 57 per cent of the respondents disapproved of Trump’s economic policy, with only 41 per cent approving.
Voters are even more downbeat on his handling of tariffs (64 per cent disapprove) and inflation (65 per cent disapprove).”
Now would somebody be so kind as to explain to me in simple English how the past 12 months of TACO economic ”policies” has benefited the average American worker.
117,000 jews are now running Australia on behalf of Israevil, and our gutless pollies are not only complicit, but are activly enabling it.
May as well rename our country Austrael.
When the jews left Europe the trouble stopped. When they arrived in the Middle East the trouble started. Thats why jews are hated.
@Thomas Brooke
Your second post on this thread, is, in my opinion, hate speech. I doubt if you care about my opinion, but it is important to me to call hate speech out when I believe I see it.
As you would know it is not the first time I’ve called one of your posts ‘hate speech’ and I don’t want to be some self-appointed censor of any individual on any website, so I’ll be leaving the commentary to you. Enjoy.
A bunch of bad boys lined up in front of the NSW parliament supporting just one message.
“Abolish the jewish Lobby”.
At first glance it was most definitely racist, and the mass media were keen to distort, or hide that message to concentrate on the gathered lads, and their backgroound.
Since that date I am constantly reminded that if we acted on their advice, and looked at this aspect of our freedoms, then we could give this equal time and status over the Royal Commission just started on Anti-semetics.
The fact is that this will not happen, and our children will face corrupt propaganda under our 2 party system.
Organised crime just seems to creep into this country, and becomes the accepted norm by the masses.
The ‘international context’ misses the causes while Segal, RW MSM etc. are symptoms.
The past couple of years it has been fossil fuel Koch* Heritage ‘Project Esther’ published on their website 2024, then US RW MSM 2025 and Australian media, nada to leverage Bondi?
*Same Atlas Koch cited via CIS, in recent climate disinfo inquiry and were central to the Voice No Campaign with Advance.
Like Russian dolls, Project Esther is layered and fits into the long term Heritage strategy for the GOP and right wing parties to denigrate the centre & left, universities, ‘free speech’, Eugenics, science, the enlightenment and ‘the other’ for hierarchical society based on ‘segregation economics’.
Orwellian messaging and projection to pummel the centre, while those following Segal etc of Jewish heritage should take not of Niemöller’s ‘They came….’
Israel, Palestine, Gaza, Judaism and Islam are being leveraged to benefit US GOP, white Christian nationalists, neo-Nazis and Evangelicals for ‘The Rapture’.
However, there is nothing to preclude any supporter of Jewish &/or Israeli heritage, being thrown under a bus by Christian conservatives, once they have dealt with Palestinians?
Meant say ‘promote’ eugenics, not anti, via campus stunts or events, often linking to men’s rights and ‘free speech’; UCL London has been the centre of attention for related types…..
@Andrew Smith, why is it the case that so often when you post comments, I’m left scratching my head and asking just what the f*ck is this guy talking about? And to put that in context, I don’t have that issue with the majority of other people who comment on these pages.
Are you deliberately obtuse, or simply unable to offer clear, concise, understandable commentary on issues du jour? Not having a shot at you, but rest assured, if I can’t get the gist of what you’re saying, then likely no-one else can either.
Do feel free to respond. I look forward to it. And BTW, it’s almost an unspoken rule, that if you’re going to engage in putting opinion to paper in public forums, you have an obligation to make sure your thoughts are coherent and comprehensible, as a basic mark of respect towards your audience. Cryptic incomprehensibility serves no-one’s purpose.
Would A Smith cease scribbling notes headings or blurts, and actually compose, edit, reflect, follow logic, embrace clarity, seek to converse? No? We try to follow leads, form views, stay open. Hello?
@ Douglas Pritchard
“…abolish..”?? Who made you God, Lord Almighty, to rule above us all?
Lobbyists are not the problem with the way this country is run; the problem is that Labor and Coalition governments give certain lobbyists and lobby groups too much access and influence. As soon as anyone writes to or phones a parliamentarian, they become a lobbyist. All Australians are entitled to lobby the government.
It is Labor making the laws; it is Labor and its duopoly other half, the Coalition, taking away our freedoms and taking us to a dark place.
When we talk of thoughts being “shaped”, its pretty much what has often been described as “grooming”.
What is disturbing is the prospect of not being allowed to even harbour thoughts which may not be mainstream as dictated from time to time.
The whole idea of education is to allow thoughts and ideas to be aired, and this is most definitely not on Segals agenda. Therefore she should go.
Education also grooms us all for the wider world.
What really got me hot under the collar was Albo declaring the “Isis Brides” were to dumped on from a great height, whereas I am prepared to believe they were subject to grooming, which is cleverly done these days, and Australia should be big enough to think we could reverse their allegiances, or at least have a crack at it.
These thoughts were coming from Albo who we have watched being groomed to the extent that he entertains Herzog who trades in hate speech on a daily basis. Running in parallel with hate speech laws here being the subject for the month.
I wish Albo would get his game together. And Minns has swallowed the juice and is now a lost case
And we covered some of this prior to Herzog’s State visit nearly three weeks ago, before everything erupted – the police brutality on the streets of Sydney on day 1, and Minnzi’s badge of honour at the ZFA knees up at the ICC, Darling Harbour on the same day, or was it the day after? Never did get a clear head on the precise date, so covertly disguised in the MSM until after the event – I do think these two events are connected in regards to tactical behaviour of Minns and the NSW Police. Had everybody known beforehand I am pretty sure it would have provoked a riot – Minns-induced with blood on his hands. He would have deployed guns on the people of NSW, it was that close to calling, and there will be a next time if he isn’t removed from the corridors of power. He must go, because he is now emboldened on his political mission of support to defend genocide at any costs and against the people of NSW.
‘Black Fog’ covers the bastardisation of our tertiary educational institutions by the Turkey necked gobbler (satire my friends, a graphic phrase worthy of Punch) – https://theaimn.net/black-fog-if-we-cant-think-for-ourselves-must-we-muzzle-and-bastardise-tertiary-education-and-our-public-institutions/
As for the dynasty of Abraham, Phil said ‘there is no god of the abrahamic type…’ I tried to cover this allegorically in the poem ‘The Sickle Sceptre’s Sway’ https://theaimn.net/the-sickle-sceptres-sway/ (Quick note – an epic or theatrical poem at foot of article of twelve stanzas, which alternate in their historical and sociopolitical reference to Palestine (s3) and Israel (s4) thereon, apart from the shorter intro, and first and last two, the jester’s prologue and apology. The original version annotated these stanzas with J, P, Z and H, as depicted on the AllPoetry version, which you can also click to from the pen name at foot of poem)
And yes, I lean to New England Cocky’s view that ‘Judaism is an ancient theology that has become entangled in the 19th century Viennese colonist settler theology of Zionism to overcome the centuries of persecution suffered across Europe by followers of Judaism’.
Have we forgotten the terrorism of English cities before, during and immediately after the establishment of the Zionist State of Israel, which led to the first round of genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the Nakba – the 1948 violent displacement of over 700,000 Palestinians, destruction of their society, and loss of homes during that 1948 Palestine war; occupation by and expansionism of Israel ever since. The inhabitants of whom along with their ancestors have lived there since the ancient city States of the Canaanites – Jericho of biblical fame, probably the oldest living city on the planet – long before the days of Saul, David and Solomon. And did the Israelites then obey the Ten Commandments. The Sickle Sceptre’s Sway!
We might also consider that group of misogynists Chabad of Bondi and among their leaders whom they rally round, identified child abuse and sex offenders formerly condemned by the Australian Government’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse – the hypocrisy and hubris of they and our government/s.
‘Chabad-Lubavitch is a major, outreach-focused Hasidic movement within Haredi Judaism, founded in late 18th-century Russia by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi. Known for its global network of 3,500+ centers (Chabad Houses), it aims to strengthen Jewish life through education, social services, and religious outreach to all Jews, regardless of background’ – Wikipedia. Although I wouldn’t call it ‘Outreach’ but an euphemism, used to re-frame their lobby and political interference in other cultures and governments worldwide, and the modern times genocide for which there is no moral or legal defence.
Our politicians and leaders are in need of a history lesson, less we deem to let them repeat the mistakes of the past, and that apart from the current round of genocide in full view. Moses would not be hurling those tablets on the golden calf. God alone would have assumed that solemn duty, if there ever was one…a God. Genocide far outweighs idolatry unless idolatry commands it.
And here we are, 21st century embroiled in all the evils of the past and protecting those who are the symptom of all this disturbance in our society – and let me be crystal clear, as the politicians like to put it – I mean the radical politicised Zionists, not mainstream Judaism. As Andrew and all of us mostly seem to agree on, this distinction is not apparent in the private gobbledegook of antisemitism definitions and rhetoric proposed to govern our secondary and tertiary educational systems, and unique Israeli-bound legislation.
What a damn farce and comic tragedy we face, we have been swallowed up in – here on the other side of the planet, multicultural Australia – bah humbug… Wrong bloody story!
Gongg…….
Golly I never expected that.
However “abolish” could be the choice of verb, and I think the lads were thinking straight
Take a moment to look at the damage the “Jewish lobby” is doing right now in the middle east, and are we smart enough to not follow USA down that rabbit hole.
Tell me, would the USA be quite as beligerent against Iran if it was not bending over for Israel, and the Lobby?
Would Iraq happened if the lobby did not exist?
Trouble makers we can do without.
Douglas
Israel is committing genocide in Palestine, that has been confirmed by a UN committee. Israel has been launching lethal attacks on its neighbours.
I find the viewpoints of Zionists here in Australia who support Israel’s actions, abhorrent, just as I found Anthony Albanese’s support for Trump’s bombing of Iran abhorrent, just as I found abhorrent Labor’s voting down Adam Bandt’s amendment demanding Israel stop the bombing.
Not all Jewish people identify with Israel, not all Jewish people support the actions of Israel. Conflating some “Jewish lobby” as you call it with the government of Israel, or even the nation of Israel is inaccurate and misleading.
Supplanting Israel with “Jewish lobby” does Netanyahu’s bidding. Why would you want to do Netanyahu’s bidding?
My impression gleaned from a few comments here (such as between commenters Gonggongche and Thomas Brooke) is of a wrestle to find common ground, perhaps even a common language, based on terminological accuracy (in turn based on historical facts and political realities).
This is gratifying to see, given that Andrew Stein’s scholarly analysis indicates a very real and insidious threat to our democracy that relies on normalising the abuse and misuse of language to achieve its aims.
Indeed, it feels like Segal’s ‘Plan to Combat Antisemitism’ has all the hallmarks of a gaslighting project by the Zionist/Israeli ‘Lobby’ enabled by its gaslit foot soldier, Australia’s Labor government.
Nothing can really be properly talked about unless the objective existence of things and the terms used to describe them are agreed upon to a minimal extent.
Paradoxically, without taking ownership of our own careless speech and attitudes, we may face having our principled speech more broadly censored courtesy attempts by foreign interests to apply pressure on local legislation to equate criticism of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza with ‘antisemitism’ – and this following years of Australian Labor’s tolerance of the terminological conflation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism.
Now Segal’s Trumpian target is the universities: havens of learning, intellectual freedom, repositories of knowledge, concise language, and empirical truth.
The way was paved and this is where we find ourselves.
Furthermore, through misunderstandings about what is at stake we may become inadvertent proselytisers of the precise ‘antisemitism’ cited as justification for ‘The Segal Agenda’ that proposes repressive interventions to counter it; thus, through careless language and unexamined attitudes we may become grist for a very dark mill.
Thus without concerted efforts to correct terminological distinctions that continue to be conflated in abject service to the Machiavellian schemes of the Israeli government and its Zionist representatives in Australia, Segal’s repressive agenda will rumble on.
George Orwell may have been the first to pick over the political implications of the abuse of language, but I believe Andrew Stein carries the torch here in urgent application of it.
What a great collection of informed comments. Thank you.
@ Thomas Brookes: Agreed with both comments; the small ZIONAZI tail is wagging the much bigger Australian dog. Would not happen with a Kelpie or a Red Cattle Dog.
But ”Austrael”? OK, so that means the menorah replacing the flag-staff on Canberra Parliament House will be a mere formality.
@ Gonggongche: Thank you for the important background information on the personal networks of ZIONAZIS in Australia. These links occur within & between states.
Disagree TB 2 comment: is hardly ”hate speech”, but then it would be so described by ZIONAZIS prepared to assassinate 70,000+ mainly women & kids during the Hannibal Directive of 2023 authorised by the Isrevil Knesset, & conducted by the amoral IDF.
@ Andrew Smith: Sadly your depth of research into these entities is little appreciated by many here who likely have not read as widely as yourself. From my own research I have found cross-references to these anti-social American FRWNJ groups where money is irrelevant and pursuit of ego-driven ideas works against the common wealth.
@ Canguro: Perhaps you could research these topics yourself because, as I found, the ”thinking” of these entities defies modern logic.
@ Douglas Pritchard: Agreed. The Mainstream Media Manipulation Monopoly is a 24/7 ”grooming” exercise for the benefit of the FRWNJ proprietors. Indeed in a recent US legal case the Murdoch organisation asserted that they were an ”entertainment entity” to generate pleasure for readers rather than a ”publication of record” giving an accurate record of events.
So, being ”entertainment” rather than ”historical record”, perhaps it is time to remove their Australian publication licences because they are no better than all the other spam on social media.
@ Jon Chesterson: Agreed; NSW LABOR Premier Chris Minus has shot himself in both feet with his handling of the Herzog invasion. By selling out to the ZIONAZIS he tossed away all the political capital generated by his previous good works.
Really both NSW and feral LABOR governments are such a disappointment that the only suitable outcome is to replace all party politicians with INDEPENDENT MPs at the respective next election.
REGIONAL INDEPENDENTS GET THIN GS DONE FOR THEIR COMMUNITIES.
What do NOtional$, LIARBRAL$ and Only Nutters do??
Thank you for the background on ZIONAZI organisations that have become established in Australia. These propaganda groups promote the ZIONAZI ”exclusive mono-theological apartheid racist ”Israel Dream’.
@ Gonggongche 2: Agreed. Estimates that I have seen suggest that active ZIONAZIS are about 30% of the Judaism followers, mainly as a response to the history of 1933-1945 and the 1917 Balfour Declaration.
Coincidently, this is about the same membership rate for the German National Socialist party 1921-1945, and the outcome of that ”adventure” is too well known.
However, be aware that the ZIONAZIs follow the same route of ingratiation with the powerful to occupy positions of influence from where their own political objectives may be promoted.
@ Herbert: The thing that I find most distasteful is that the ZIONAZIS are the principal Merchants of Hate, yet will escape persecution because they determined the definition of hate by excluding anti-Islamic comments.
If immigrants want to come to Australia then they should leave their national grievances in the country they are departing from rather than infest Australia with historical angst that is irrelevant here.
Cocky, Andrew Smith’s presentation style is actually worse than that outlined by Kanga.
Smith regularly employs guilt by association to besmirch those he disagrees with.
He uses juvenile labels to attack those he disagrees with, instead of attacking what people say.
Can you recall him quoting say, Sachs or Mearsheimer, then dealing with the quote?
No? But he’s called them plenty of names.
He has in the past presented dubious figures such as Snyder, Applebaum, and Kallioniemi as being credible authorities when their specialty is misrepresentation.
I’ve dealt with misrepresentation from all three, previously.
It’s astonishing that this woman fails to understand that she is using invective hate and abuse to tell us how we should live, think and learn?
Just look at her face!
Cocky, thanks for your suggestion, re. diving into the subject areas that fascinate Andrew Smith and by virtue thereof, self-educating. I’ll pass on the offer. Whilst the signifiers of autodidact & dilettante arguably apply, and if you knew my background you’d understand why I choose those two terms, my areas of interest tend to be a bit closer to home, as you’d agree if you reflect on the numbers of times I’ve ranted about the consequences of climate change, ecosystems under threat, the obduracy of those who could make a change not doing so, the generally appalling state of play nationally (and internationally) as a consequence of the generally appalling quality of the people who represent us politically and so on. I don’t have the degree of focus that leads one into an almost obsessive dive into any subject area and the types of things that get me up and running aren’t generally of much interest, as far as I can tell, to the commentators who frequent these pages. In no particular order, gardening, bird-watching, dog-walking, photography, movies & books, technical analysis of stock markets, plus an ever piqued interest in depth psychology and to a lesser extent philosophy and an even greater lesser extent spirituality and the mysteries of the human experience along with those of life at large tend to be where the Kangaroo finds his fit.
Andrew Smith’s obsession with the Koch /RWNJs / conspiracists / Heritage Foundation / Atlas / Project 2025 etc. are way way down the list of things I might take an interest in. My comments directed towards that person are simply based on multiple readings of his comments that are always, invariably, almost completely incomprehensible, thus raising the consequential query… why would you write stuff that no-one can comprehend or understand? The mark of a good writer is that his (or her, for the pedants) work is able to be understood by the ‘general’ audience. All competent teachers of writing stress the need to put yourself in the audience’s shoes as it were, to see your work from another person’s perspective and keep oneself open to that sensitivity. Based on that criteria, Andrew Smith’s posts fail the test.
@ Canguro: Welcome to the world of the addicted chronic terminal bibliomaniac (autodidact rather than dilettante surely?) who reads as widely as possible to understand why the world works the way it apparently does. To satisfy this lust for knowledge requires reading a certain amount of dubious writings for completeness rather than pleasure.
Some topics, like first-hand accounts of war experience, are necessary reading to ”round-out” understanding rather than pleasurable enjoyment. Much of the ”conspiracy theory” area topics covered by Andrew Smith fall into this description. They are ideas, floated for consideration and the anti-social ones, like eugenics, zionism, Weimar Germany Armistice betrayal, even the US ”treason” of retreating from Vietnam ”because we were winning” are examples.
We have to know the thinking of the enemy to protect the world of freedom we value.
The ALP has long been “advised and influenced” by Jewish businessmen and “prominent Jewish public figures”.
ChatGPT informs us that:
PM Bob Hawke was advised, mentored and influenced by Isi Leibler.
• Leibler developed a close personal and political friendship with Hawke during Hawke’s rise through the trade-union movement in the 1960s–70s.
• Leibler helped introduce Hawke to influential figures within Melbourne’s Jewish business and community networks.
• He encouraged and supported Hawke’s engagement with Jewish causes, particularly campaigns on behalf of Soviet Jewish “refuseniks.”
• Contemporary accounts describe their relationship as “extremely warm on both personal and political grounds.” 
• Leibler’s connections and organisational support helped strengthen Hawke’s political profile and international links during his ACTU years.
Several other Melbourne Jewish businessmen were also close to Hawke:
• Saul Same — a major Labor supporter and adviser who maintained a long friendship with Hawke and other Labor leaders. 
• Sir Peter Abeles — another influential Jewish businessman and political ally (though Sydney-based rather than Melbourne).
PM Albanese is therefor not the only Labor Leader to bow to the Jewish/Zionist lobby.
Such an important article. But – I guess I am a bit thick – but I don’t understand the “Turkey Necked Gobbler”. What does it mean? It looks like a personal insult to Jillian Segal. Dammit all, when this person is advocating such awful divisive attitudes, do we need to confuse the issue by making unpleasant insults about her physical appearance? Or am I missing some clever connection here?
I tend to agree, Noel. I have removed those words.