Australia is ruled by a Zionist-perverted and US lackey Labor-Coalition Duopoly. Presently there is an appalling Labor Government and an even worse Coalition Opposition that both fervently support Apartheid Israel and hence Apartheid, are complicit in the Gaza Genocide, and seek to obscure the horrific Jewish Israeli-imposed carnage (The Lancet: 186,000 killed) by supporting Zionist demands for an obfuscating commission of inquiry into alleged antisemitism at Australian universities.
This Zionist-backed move has already achieved the horrid consequences of (a) hiding the horrific Gaza Genocide (186,000 Gazans killed by violence and imposed deprivation, including an estimated 136,000 children, 17,000 women, 33,000 men, 500 health professionals, and over 150 journalists )[1-4], and (b) false, threatening, and damaging McCarthyist defamation of anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish students, academics and pro-Palestinian human rights activists as alleged “anti-Semites”, and (c) egregious attacking of free speech in Australia and in Australian universities that is crucial for an informed democracy and for unfettered scholarship. Of course false Zionist defamation of anti-racist Jews critical of Apartheid Israel is egregious anti-Jewish anti-Semitism. However the endlessly mendacious and fanatical racist Zionists falsely assert that they “own” the term “antisemitism, but anti-racist Jewish American scholar Professor Bertell Ollman (New York University) has correctly stated: “For obvious reasons, the Zionists are very sensitive about being compared to the Nazis (not so sensitive that it has restrained them in their actions but enough to bellow “unfair” and to charge “anti-Semitism” when it happens). Yet, the facts on the ground, when not obscured by one or another Zionist rationalization, show that the Zionists are the worst anti-Semites in the world today, oppressing a Semitic people [the Indigenous Palestinians] as no nation has done since the Nazis”.
As of mid-January 2024 after 100 days of the Gaza Massacre 100,000 Palestinians were killed, missing or wounded, and 31,497 Palestinians had been killed including 12,345 children [1]. However on 21 September 2024, after 352 days of killing and a worsening famine and disease catastrophe the widely-reported present estimate is about 37,000 deaths i.e. societal destruction is so great that deaths in Gaza can no longer be accurately registered, this making even more important the expert estimate in the leading medical journal The Lancet of over 186,000 deaths from violence and imposed deprivation (an estimate that is ignored by Zionist-subverted, genocide-complicit and genocide-ignoring Western media and politicians) [2-4].
Zionist-subverted, Zionist-perverted and craven US lackey Australia has lying, US-dominated Mainstream media, a rightist Labor Government and an extreme right Coalition Opposition that have a commonality in support for anti-Arab anti-Semitism, US wars, Apartheid Israel and hence Apartheid, and have now joined forces to support banning most children from truth-telling on social media and to attack global free speech via threatening media. Elon Musk has responded thus to Labor’s media laws: “Fascists”. I agree. The core ethos of Humanity is (a) Kindness and (b) Truth but this is violated by the Labor-Coalition Duopoly. (a) Unkindness: The Zionist- and US-beholden Labor-Coalition Duopoly (i) supported all post-1950 US Asian wars (40 million deaths; Labor excepted the Vietnam War and the Iraq War), (ii) horribly and criminally persecutes refugees (remote indefinite imprisonment without charge or trial), (iii) ignores the huge war crimes of Australian politicians, and (iv) supports in 20 ways the genocide in Gaza of a Semitic people. (b) Untruth: The Labor-Coalition Duopoly (i) lies in support of Apartheid Israel and hence vile Apartheid in 35 ways, (ii) falsely describes Indigenous Arabs and Muslims defending their homelands from US state terrorism as “terrorists”, (iii) lies about everything from its complicity in the Gaza Genocide to Australia’s massive part in the existential threats to Humanity and the Biosphere from nuclear weapons and climate change, (iv) supports the anti-Jewish anti-Semitic, anti-Arab anti-Semitic and holocaust-denying IHRA, (v) seeks to ban most Australian children from truth-telling on social media, and (vi) now seeks to bully social media into censoring truth and free speech.Fascist is as fascist does – Australians must kick out the fascist Labor-Coalition Duopoly [5-9].
Back in 2001 I gave an invited paper entitled “Current Academic Censorship and Self-Censorship in Australian Universities” to a conference of academics concerned with preservation of core values of the public university. My paper was published in the Public University Journal. My paper commenced “The core academic ethos involves commitment to truth, reason and free speech and these elements are operationally intimately intertwined in the concept of academic freedom… Academic freedom is presently under attack in Australia and paradoxically this constraint is coming from within our universities. This situation must be urgently reversed”. It concluded with 8 suggestions to address this situation, including “vii. We need a special “free speech” status for academics.While one would ideally like to see American-style “free speech” liberty for all in Australia, a useful start would be recognition of the special position of academics as professionals dedicated to truth, reason and informing the public. Of course this proposal will not fly as long as the major threats to academic free speech in Australia come from within the universities themselves. viii. Finally, we should publicly insist that universities that constrain free speech are not fit for our children” [10].
However 23 years later the situation is far worse with the corporatizing of Australian universities, Codes of Conduct limiting academic free speech, extensive government interference, and most recently the adoption by Melbourne University of the false, racist, defamatory, anti-Arab anti-Semitic, anti-Jewish anti-Semitic and holocaust-ignoring Zionist International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Definition of anti-Semitism, a move that threatens the free speech of academics and students at Melbourne University and potentially at all Australian universities [11]. State and Federal Governments variously fund universities and can punish institutions and academics for perceived transgressions. Academic researchers depend on research funding but in circa 2000 the Federal Government introduced ignorant and politicized layperson editing of the list of expertly-awarded Australian Research Council (ARC) grants, ignoring the exhaustive and expert processes involved in Grant Submissions and Grant Awards. In May 2013 the Coalition threatened to de-fund any individuals or organizations supporting Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Apartheid Israel because it falsely regarded such support (presumably including such support from anti-racist Jews) as “antisemitic”. Of course falsely persecuting anti-racist Jews is egregious anti-Jewish anti-Semitism, an utterly vile reality in Australia that is ignored by the Labor-Coalition Duopoly and its Mainstream media, academic and commentariat backers.
Australia is 1 of 35 member nations of the all-European International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) that is all European and largely committed to nuclear holocaust as an acceptable military strategy. Indeed all but 4 of the IHRA members joined Australia, the US and Ukraine in voting No to the 2022 annual UNGA Anti-Nazi Resolution that deplores Nazism, neo-Nazism and consequent ugly racism (even neo-Nazi Apartheid Israel voted Yes for 6 million obvious reasons) [11]. The IHRA Definition of antisemitism is anti-Jewish anti-Semitic and anti-Arab anti-Semitic by falsely defaming anti-racist Jewish, Palestinian, Arab and Muslim critics of Nazi-style Israeli Apartheid) and genocide-ignoring and holocaust–ignoring (by ignoring all WW2 holocausts other than the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million Jews killed by the Nazis ), and indeed ignoring about 70 genocides and holocausts [12-22]. The WW2 holocausts ignored by the IHRA include (deaths from violence and imposed deprivation in brackets) the WW2 Roma Holocaust (1 million), WW2 Polish Holocaust (6 million), WW2 Soviet Holocaust (23 million), overall WW2 European Holocaust (30 million), WW2 Chinese Holocaust (35-40 million in 1937-1945) and the WW2 Bengali Holocaust (WW2 Indian Holocaust, WW2 Bengal Famine; 6-7 million Indians deliberately starved to death for strategic reasons in Bengal, Bihar, Assam and Odisha by the British with food-denying Australian complicity) . One notes that that genocide ignoring and holocaust ignoring are far, far worse than repugnant genocide denial and holocaust denial because the latter can at least permit public refutation and public debate). For these and other reasons scholars around the world and over 40 anti-racist Jewish organizations have condemned the IHRA Definition [23].
Of the 35 members of the IHRA:(1). all are European; (2). the 5 located outside Europe (Argentina, Australia, ,Canada, Apartheid Israel, and the US) were all created based on the genocide of the Indigenous People; (3). 9 members were part of the genocidal WW2 Nazi Germany Alliance; (4). 4 (the US, UK, France and Apartheid Israel) are nuclear terrorist states; (5). 28 belong to the 30-member nuclear-armed NATO that accepts mass incineration of billions of men, women and children as an acceptable military strategy; (6). 14 were notably involved in the brutal conquest and genocide of Indigenous non-European people over 5 centuries; (7). only 2 (Austria and Ireland) have had the moral decency to sign and ratify the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW); and (8). all but 3 shockingly voted No to the annual UNGA Anti-Nazi Resolution in 2022 that condemns Nazism, neo-Nazism and related racist obscenities [11, 24, 25]. So far, the University of Melbourne, Wollongong University 2 state governments (NSW and Victoria), the Federal Labor Government and the Coalition Opposition (the Labor-Coalition Duopoly have adopted the anti-Semitic, pro-Apartheid and holocaust-ignoring IHRA Definition.
Here are some further horrific realities not reported by the Zionist-perverted Mainstream: (1) As assessed on a per capita basis, Apartheid Israel leads the world for the killing of children and of journalists; (2) the rate of killing of Occupied Palestinians in the Gaza Concentration Camp exceeds the rate of killing of Australian POWs by the Japanese in WW2; (3) the rate of killing of children in Gaza is very similar to the rate of killing of Jewish children by Nazi Germany in WW2; (4) the Occupied/Occupier Reprisals Death Ratio for the Gaza Massacre is presently at least 186,000 /1,200 = 155, 15.5 times bigger than the Reprisals Death Ratio of 10 ordered by Nazi mass murderer Adolph Hitler and immediately effected in the 1944 Ardeatine Massacre in Rome in which 335 Italian men and boys were executed in reprisals for the deaths of 30 German soldiers in a Partisan ambush. There is a shocking list of 52 Zionist- and Apartheid Israeli-Nazi Germany comparisons [11, 26-28]. Nazi is as Nazi does.
The core ethos of Humanity is Kindness and Truth. Indeed the core principle of academics is zero tolerance for lying (lying short circuits the search for truth). Further, the key moral messages of the WW2 Jewish Holocaust and of all genocides and holocausts are “zero tolerance for lying’, “zero tolerance for racism”, “bear witness “ and “never again to anyone”. However these core imperatives are grossly violated by US Alliance-backed and Zionist-run Apartheid Israel which is genocidally racist and egregiously mendacious. The same gross moral deficiency applies to all those US Alliance countries supporting Apartheid Israel. Israeli Apartheid means that of 15 million mainly impoverished Indigenous Palestinians, (a) 7 million Exiled Palestinians are excluded from living in the Land continuously inhabited by their Semitic forebears for millennia, (b) 5.6 million Occupied Palestinians are highly abusively held hostage for up to 57 years without human rights under military rule and excluded from voting for the government ruling them, and (c) 2.1 million Israeli Palestinians are allowed to vote for approved candidates but as Third Class citizens subject to 65 race-based, Nazi-style, discriminatory laws. Apartheid Israel and all those supporting Apartheid Israel are inescapably pro-Apartheid and consequently utterly unfit for decent company, public life and public office in a one-person-one-vote and human rights -respecting democracy like Australia [30, 31].
Zionism is genocidal racism in obscene Theodor Herzl theory and genocidal racism in practice. Indeed Zionism is essentially Nazism without gas chambers (Zionazism) but with 90 nuclear weapons, one of the world’s leading high technology militaries, arms industries and surveillance industries, and a globally-active espionage network second only to that of Zionist-subverted America [32-35].
In 2024 a huge Zionist threat to academic free speech and free speech in general emerged in Zionist-subverted, Zionist-perverted and US lackey Australia. A “Commission of Inquiry into Antisemitism at Australian Universities Bill 2024” that “Establishes a commission of inquiry into antisemitism at Australian universities” was introduced into Australia’s Federal House of Representatives by a Jewish Coalition MP in June 2024 [36].
The Parliament of Australia (September 2024): “The Commission of Inquiry into Antisemitism at Australian Universities Bill 2024 (No. 2) would allow for the establishment of a commission of inquiry into antisemitism at Australian universities. The deadline for submissions is 23 August 2024… Past Public Hearings: 20 Sep 2024: Canberra, 17 Sep 2024: Canberra. Inquiry Status. Submissions Closed… All submissions to Senate committee inquiries are protected by parliamentary privilege. If you have made a submission and are concerned that you have been threatened or disadvantaged on the basis of your submission, please bring that to the attention of the committee (by contacting the secretariat) as soon as possible [37]. 624 Submissions were made [38].
Set out below are 4 key opinions (together with my Comments about them) on this dangerous and intrinsically fascist move, namely the expert opinions of (A) Nick Riemer (National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) president, University of Sydney) [39], (B) Luke Sheehy, Chief Executive Officer, Universities Australia (representing Australia’s 43 universities), (C) Senator Mehreen Faruqi (Deputy Leader of the Greens, the Greens being the only major Australian party to support Palestinian human rights and an immediate and permanent Ceasefire in Gaza), and (D) Dr Matthew Brown, Deputy Chief Executive, The Group of Eight (the 8 top Australian universities).
(A). Nick Riemer (National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) president, University of Sydney) (22 August 2024; excluding references): “Submission to the Commission of Inquiry into Antisemitism at Australian Universities Bill 2024. This submission is made in my capacity as the branch president of the National Tertiary Education Union at the University of Sydney, where I am an academic. I am also a long-term advocate for Palestine, and, like many other NTEU members, the regular object of vexatious accusations of antisemitism. The submission is consistent with positions democratically adopted by the NTEU at branch and national levels.
Background
(1). The establishment of the present Commission of Enquiry is a response to the sustained public expression of opposition to Israel’s ‘plausibly genocidal’ (as defined by the International Court of Justice) attacks on Gaza since October last year. The British medical journal The Lancet estimates the possible Palestinian death toll as over 186 000;1 as of August 22, 2024, the verified death-toll stood at 40 223, with 92,981 injured.2 All Gaza’s universities have been destroyed and 85% of its schools damaged.3 Vast tracts of Gaza have been flattened, and Gazans have been, and are being, subjected to conditions of inhuman privation, displacement and extreme violence.
(2). Antisemitism is an abhorrent expression of racism which universities, like all institutions, have an obligation to combat. This obligation is no greater or lesser than the obligation to combat any other kind of systemic racism or discriminatory practice, all of which are violations of fundamental rights.
(3). As many researchers, activists and organisations, including Jewish ones, have argued, it is counter-productive to single out any one form of racism or prejudice for individualized treatment. Racism should be opposed universally. Antisemitism, anti-Asian racism, Islamophobia, and racism against First Nations people are all equally intolerable and must be combatted together.
(4). Recent months have seen an unprecedented upsurge of public support for the Palestinian people, and intensifying opposition to Israel’s genocidal practices (as defined by the ICJ) and apartheid (as confirmed by major Palestinian, Israeli and international human rights organisations including Al Haq, B’Tselem, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch).
(5). The Palestine solidarity movement has repeatedly made clear its opposition to all forms of racism, including antisemitism, and articulated the political goal of equality and democracy for everyone in Israel and the Occupied Territories, regardless of religion, background, national origin, or any other identifying characteristic.
(6). The Palestine solidarity movement in Australia, as elsewhere, includes, welcomes and consistently platforms Jewish individuals and organisations. Jewish people are, indeed, among the most prominent and active members of this movement.
(7). Despite this, Palestine advocates are regularly accused of antisemitism simply in virtue of their support for Gaza, or their opposition to the Israeli colonisation of Palestine, or to other Israeli practices like the apartheid imposed on Palestinians. This accusation is embodied in the International Holocaust Remembrance Association [IHRA] definition of antisemitism. This definition has been significantly criticised, including by one of its original drafters, for its weaponization of allegations of antisemitism in order to suppress Palestine solidarity. In the words of one scholar writing in the Australian Journal of Human Rights, ‘the IHRA is a political tool used to censor speech on Palestine and shield Israel from criticism by labelling critical perspectives on Palestine as antisemitic.’4
The situation in universities
{8). Universities have been major sites of pro-Palestinian solidarity. This is unsurprising, and is in keeping with their traditional nature as places where political issues are prominent and seriously debated. Vigorous debate of this kind is essential to universities’ ability to fulfil their commonly understood civil-society function.
(9). There is no evidence whatsoever of any crisis of antisemitism on university campuses since October last year, unless anti-Zionism and opposition to apartheid and genocide are interpreted as antisemitic. This interpretation would be completely unwarranted.
(10). At the University of Sydney, significant numbers of staff and students, including many Jewish ones, have participated in pro-Palestine activities.
(11). A large meeting of the university’s NTEU branch in May, and an even larger meeting of students in August, both voted for various measures in support of Palestine solidarity, including boycotts of and divestment from bodies that support or enable the current genocidal violence against Palestinians. The text of the NTEU motion is included here as an appendix. Since then, several other branches of the NTEU have passed similar motions.
(12). In conformity with the guidelines issued by the BDS National Committee in Palestine, boycott targets are not defined on the grounds of their identity, but on the grounds of their complicity with Israel’s anti-Palestinian practices.5 No individual or institution qualifies for boycott or divestment on the grounds of being Israeli, or, still less, of being Jewish. Only organisations that enable or support attacks on Palestinians (for instance, by contributing to weapons and other research that benefits Israel) are the targets of boycott or divestment campaigns.6
(13). Boycotts are a regular feature of university life and academic professionalism.7 The American Association of University Professors, the pre-eminent professional body safeguarding academic freedom in the US, has concluded that ‘academic boycotts are not in themselves violations of academic freedom; rather, they can be considered legitimate tactical responses to conditions that are fundamentally incompatible with the mission of higher education’. It states that ‘faculty members and students should not face institutional or governmental censorship or discipline for participating in academic boycotts, for declining to do so, or for criticizing and debating the choices of those with whom they disagree.’3
Conclusion
(14). Structural racism is a serious problem in universities, as it is in Australian society in general, but there is no antisemitism crisis on Australian campuses. Universities have been starved of federal funds for decades, a situation which seriously jeopardizes their ability to serve their communities as they should. What they need is a sustained financial commitment, not extra regulatory scrutiny aimed at instituting McCarthyist attacks on Palestine supporters and their politics of equality and democracy for all.
(15). Weaponizing the legitimate and necessary struggle against antisemitism for the narrow purpose of suppressing opposition to the genocidal practices of the state of Israel seriously undermines the combat against all racism, antisemitism included.
— Nick Riemer, branch president, University of Sydney NTEU branch.
Appendix: University of Sydney NTEU branch Palestine solidarity resolution, May 9, 2024
The branch notes:
(1). The International Court of Justice preliminary ruling that the state of Israel is plausibly committing genocide in the Gaza Strip, and Israel’s failure to comply with the court’s preliminary orders to prevent this;
(2). The ties that The University of Sydney maintains with weapons manufacturers and militaries that arm or support Israel, and that are therefore implicated in the killing of Palestinians
(3). The incompatibility of these ties with the university’s commitment to ‘leading to improve the world around us’ and ‘education for all, leadership for good’. The university should not contribute to the development of weapons or to the profits of arms companies, regardless of the conflicts in which these weapons are used or any civil applications weapons technology may also have;
(4). That staff and students must not be exposed to the charge that either they or their own institution is aiding and abetting war crimes, crimes against humanity and/or plausible acts of genocide.
We further note:
(5). The death-toll in Gaza of 33,000+ people (with more than 13,000 children killed), and the targeting of hospitals, doctors, humanitarian workers and journalists;
(6). The fact that all Gaza’s universities have been destroyed and numerous Gazan academics have been killed in targeted assassinations;
(7). The fact that multiple international authorities recognise that Israel commits the crime of apartheid;
(8). The fact that Israeli universities all directly serve the project of Israeli settler colonialism and apartheid, in particular through their roles in weapons research, military training, and in the oppression of Palestinian students on their own campuses.
In particular, we also note:
(9). The call from Palestinian trade unions to oppose the arming of Israel;
(10). The call from universities throughout Palestine, and from our colleagues in the Palestinian universities’ union, for international university workers to implement an institutional academic boycott of Israel. This does not prevent collaboration with individual academics, but only affects collaboration with, or officially mediated by, Israeli universities as institutions;
(11). The NTEU National Council resolution of October 2022, committing the union to active solidarity with Palestine.
Therefore, the branch:
(12). Calls on University of Sydney management to cut ties with all organisations that enable the current Gaza violence. This includes all Israeli universities.
(13). Calls on University of Sydney management to cut its ties with the weapons industry and militaries in general.
(14). Calls on University of Sydney management to establish dedicated international scholarships for Palestinian students, and to welcome Palestinian academics through theScholars at Risk program.
(15). Calls on University of Sydney management to replace the funding of all staff whose position at the university depends on arms companies, to enable them to undertake research for the public good.
Finally, the branch:
(16). Expects and encourages members to implement the institutional boycott of Israeli universities (not of individual colleagues).
(17). Calls on the wider university community to do the same.
(18). Calls on other NTEU branches and the NTEU nationally to pass similar motions to this one.” [39].
Comments. Like Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi (but unlike the universities’ officials) Nick Riemer covers most bases and in particular the key matters of (i) the horrific carnage in Gaza (The Lancet: 186,000 killed), (ii) the offensiveness in singling out and weaponizing 1 form of racism to obfuscate Zionist crimes , (iii) the vital importance of free speech and academic free speech, and (iv) the moral imperative and legitimacy of action to oppose human rights abuse, apartheid and genocidal racism.
(B). Luke Sheehy, Chief Executive Officer, Universities Australia (23 August 2024): “Our communities, like many others, have been deeply affected by the conflict in the Middle East and we share community concerns about the rise of antisemitic behaviour in Australia. Sadly, university campuses have not been immune to this. Since the attacks, Universities Australia has been working closely with our members, parliamentarians and student groups to address incidents of antisemitism, as well as instances of Islamophobia. Our members are also cooperating with the Government, including keeping the Minister for Education and the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) updated on the steps taken to protect staff and students in the days following the 7 October 2023 attacks. There is no place for racism of any form in our universities, or anywhere else. As a sector, we strongly oppose racism, threats to safety, hate speech, intimidation, bullying or harassment. Unfortunately, instances of these behaviours do play out on campuses, just as they do in the wider community. University campuses are places where ideas are openly discussed and debated, no matter how popular or unpopular they may be. A commitment to academic freedom and freedom of speech are criteria for being recognised as a university under the Higher Education Threshold Standards. While these freedoms do not extend to hate speech or other unlawful forms of speech, they do provide substantial protection for the robust expression of differing views… Universities Australia supports recent actions taken by the Government to help make universities safer for staff and students, including a study on the prevalence and impact of racism in universities, the appointment of Ms Jillian Segal AO [immediate past president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ)] as Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism in Australia and the upcoming appointment of a Special Envoy for Islamophobia [Federal Labor MP for the Victorian seat of Wills, Peter Khalil, now being opposed in the 2025 Federal elections by Samantha Ratnam, former Greens leader and a state MP in Victoria]. We also support the continued monitoring by TEQSA of the responses of universities to complaints of antisemitism. Given this wide range of measures, a Commission of Inquiry may disrupt the work currently being undertaken.” [40].
Comments. Luke Sheehy makes a fundamental point about the vital importance of academic and student freedom of speech excepting “hate speech or other unlawful forms of speech” and importantly concludes “a Commission of Inquiry may disrupt the work currently being undertaken”. However he adopts the prevalent Mainstream media and politician narrative in (i) referring to the 7 October Occupied Palestinian Breakout from the Gaza Concentration Camp as “the 7 October 2023 attacks” (the 1,200 Israelis killed were overwhelmingly former or present Jewish Israeli military and it is likely that most were killed by the enormous fire-power of the responding IDF operating under the Apartheid Israeli “Hannibal directive” [43, 44]), (ii) failing to address the horrific Australia-complicit carnage of the Gaza Genocide (The Lancet: 186,000 Palestinians killed, mostly children), and (iii) ignoring horrific mass murder of 136,000 Semitic Palestinian children (real, genocidal, Nazi-style anti-Semitism) but instead being concerned with verbal “anti-Semitism” falsely claimed by Zionists (who blatantly and falsely regard anti-Zionism by anti-racist Jews and non-Jews as anti-Semitism as set out in numerous annual “Antisemitism Reports” put out by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry [45] (e.g. see “Jews Against Racist Zionism” [46] and scroll down to “Gideon Polya” (me), an anti-racist, pro-peace, Jewish Australian humanitarian scholar who has been repeatedly included and quoted in these “Antisemitism Reports” – you be the judge as to whether or not this is real and damaging anti-Jewish anti-Semitism).
(C). Senator Mehreen Faruqi (Deputy Leader of the Greens, a New South Wales Senator, engineer, author and PhD ) (27 June 2024): “The Greens will not be supporting the Commission of Inquiry into Antisemitism at Australian Universities Bill 2024 (No. 2). The budget handed down last month includes a commitment for the government to undertake a study into antisemitism, Islamophobia, racism and the experience of First Nations people in the universities sector. This was a recommendation of the Australian Universities Accord final report. This much broader study to be done by the Race Discrimination Commissioner will develop recommendations for the government to consider that can contribute to reducing racism and creating safer and more respectful and inclusive learning environments for all students and staff. We support this review by the Race Discrimination Commissioner, whose office is best placed to conduct such a review. They have the expertise and resources to conduct this review, and it is exactly the type of work that they should be doing.
Unlike what some in here think, racism, in all its forms, exists in this country, and it is a problem in this country. The Greens are the only party in this place with an antiracism portfolio, because we recognise the need to tackle systemic and institutional racism; to confront our bloody colonial history, which, to this day, targets First Nations people; and to counter the growing tide of far-right nationalism.
Racism exists at universities, as it exists everywhere else. Just last week, threatening Islamophobic graffiti, referencing the Christchurch mosque murderer, was discovered by a Muslim engineering student in the University of Melbourne toilets. In May, it was reported by the Islamophobia Register that there was a 39-fold increase in reports of Islamophobia on Australian university campuses alone. The Universities Accord report itself spoke of instances of racism at higher education providers experienced by First Nations students and staff, both on campus and online. It recommended that an important element of the study would specifically focus on the experiences of First Nations staff and students, while another could extend to staff and students from other groups who have experienced racism in the sector. During the COVID pandemic, we saw a shameful spike in attacks on students with Asian appearance. A study by the Migrant Worker Justice Initiative found that racism had impacted a staggering quarter of Australia’s international students during the pandemic. A review by the Human Rights Commission into racism, one which tackles all different types of racism, is the kind of broad-ranging, expert-led review we need, not one whose motivation we know all too well which has been brought into the Senate today.
I agree with Dr Max Kaiser from the Jewish Council of Australia, who has expressed deep concern about what he calls the weaponisation of antisemitism by the Liberal Party to target students who are standing up against the genocide of the Palestinian people. I also agree with his colleague Ms Sarah Schwartz, who recently told a Senate inquiry into right-wing extremism that the only way to effectively fight antisemitism is by committing to work in partnership with other groups facing bigotry and discrimination and to fight all forms of racism. I have zero trust in a party whose leader is Peter Dutton to push for any good-faith review into racism. I have zero trust in Senator Henderson— I have zero trust in a party whose leader is Mr Dutton to push for any good-faith review into racism. I have zero trust in Senator Henderson, who thinks that there is no issue with Islamophobia, to push for any good-faith review into racism.
Let’s be clear: this bill is a thinly veiled attempt to attack student encampments and tarnish students and staff who are calling for justice for Palestine, a free Palestine and the end to a genocide in which Israel has already slaughtered more than 37,000 Palestinians. It is also an attempt to force the IHRA definition of ‘antisemitism’ onto universities. This definition has been widely criticised, including by many progressive Jewish organisations, for its ability to stifle academic freedom, silence Palestinian voices and prevent legitimate criticism of the State of Israel. More than eight months into a genocide perpetrated by Israel, with complete impunity and in flagrant disregard of international law, the need to apply scrutiny to Israel’s actions has in fact never been greater.
The Greens are firmly on the side of students and staff and everyone fighting for a free Palestine. We condemn the actions of universities, like Deakin and ANU, that have cracked down on student camps. We praise the brave students who have won concessions from their universities to disclose investments in weapons companies. The encampment organisers have made clear many, many times that these are anti-war protests that are opposed to all forms of racism and discrimination, including antisemitism. Jewish students and staff have played significant roles in many of them. Shame on the coalition, and Labor too, for being more concerned about those protesting the genocide than the genocide itself, in which Israel has mercilessly slaughtered more than 37,000 Palestinians in the last eight months and reduced much of Gaza to rubble” [41].
Comments. This is an honest and humane statement by Senator Mehreen Faruqi that covers key matters ignored by mendacious, racist, and anti-Arab anti-Semitic Mainstream journalist, editor, politician, academic and commmentariat presstitutes, namely (i) the horrific carnage of the Gaza Genocide, (ii) the false weaponization of anti-Semitism by Zionists and the Labor-Coalition Duopoly to curb humane free speech in Australia and Australian universities in particular, (iii) the perversion of Australia and Australian institutions by the bigoted, mendacious and racist IHRA (it is racist, anti-Arab anti-Semitic, anti-Jewish anti-Semitic and holocaust-denying), and (iv) the Zionist-subverted Mainstream and Labor-Coalition Duopoly falsely attacking and threatening those protesting genocide instead of protesting the Gaza Genocide themselves (The Lancet: 186,000 killed, this implying 136,000 children killed).
(D). Dr Matthew Brown, Deputy Chief Executive, The Group of Eight [Australia’s top 8 universities], Opening Statement: Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee Commission of Inquiry into Antisemitism at Australian Universities Bill 2024 (No. 2), (20 September 2024): “The Group of Eight unconditionally rejects all forms of hate and prejudice which are absolutely unacceptable and puts our social cohesion as a nation at risk. We are deeply concerned about the increase in antisemitism since 7 October last year across the community and empathise with the distress and trauma caused in our Jewish community by the events of October 7 and their aftermath. There is no place in our society for antisemitism or any other form of racial or religious intolerance. As stated in our submission we agree with ASIO’s assessment – that there are warning signs across society – social cohesion is under threat – young people are being radicalised well before they get to university – and we need to deal with this at a societal level. We’ve seen protests in the community, protests at schools, at Parliament House and on university campuses. Tensions escalated on campuses and in the community – that’s something we’re not used to seeing often in this country.
The Go8 recognises that universities – as educators of future generations – play a key role in protecting and supporting a tolerant and cohesive society. At the same time, we must uphold a fundamental pillar of a healthy democracy and respect the rights of the Australian people – including students, staff and other members of the university community – to express their views through peaceful protest and lawful freedom of speech .Universities have both a moral and legislative requirement to protect freedom of speech and academic freedom. As we have stated repeatedly – the right to protest comes with the responsibility to act peacefully and within the law and university codes. As a society we need to learn how to hold conflicting views and engage in debate without breaking legal, civil or behavioural boundaries. In practice it is not simple to determine where those boundaries lie. These are very complex issues. And they are global issues. Countries around the world – and their universities – are facing the same challenges to social cohesion we are. Fortunately, Australia avoided the scenes we saw on campuses around the world – the violence and police action that played out in the US wasn’t replicated here.
For our part, Go8 members put procedures in place to avoid the escalation of tensions on campus as we have seen overseas. All Go8 universities committed to a Statement of Principles on Demonstrations on Campus affirming our commitment to upholding the rights of expression and peaceful assembly while rejecting any form of hate or prejudice. We co-authored and committed to the Berlin Statement, a confirmation from the world’s Global Research-Intensive Universities Network – that we strive to be places where freedom of speech and academic freedom is upheld but where antisemitism and racism in all forms is never tolerated. Universities are a reflection of society. We need to take a genuine look at the causes and drivers endangering our social cohesion both on and off campuses. The Go8 is committed to continuously improving how it deals with antisemitism and will work closely with the Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism in doing so” [42].
Comments: The Group of Eight statement is Orwellian by (i) totally ignoring the 186,000 Palestinians estimated killed by Jewish Israelis in the Gaza Genocide and Gaza Massacre (mostly children) but confining its “deep concern” to alleged verbal “antisemitism” and “trauma” to “our Jewish community” (“We are deeply concerned about the increase in antisemitism since 7 October last year across the community and empathise with the distress and trauma caused in our Jewish community by the events of October 7 and their aftermath”), (ii) fairly directly implying that pro-Palestinian human rights protesters are somehow causing “distress”, “trauma”, and “antisemitism” in relation to Zionist Jews and consequently damaging “social cohesion”, (iii) disingenuously implying that those protesting the mass murder of children, women and mothers in Gaza (an expertly estimated 136,000 children killed but ignored by the Mainstream) have somehow violated “boundaries”, (iv) failing to recognize real and egregious anti-Jewish anti-Semitism directed at a large body of anti-racist Jews protesting the mass murder of children, women and mothers in Gaza by Nazi-style Jewish Israeli killers, and (v) ignoring that “the events of October 7 and their aftermath” according to leading Western writers involved (a) Israeli foreknowledge and enabling of the Palestinian Breakout on 7 October with likely most Israelis killed in the high explosive IDF response [43, 44], and (b) the mass murder of 186,000 Palestinians (mostly children) by genocidally racist Zionazi Israelis who want all the land of Palestine (and then some) but not the Indigenous Palestinian inhabitants. This was a deeply flawed statement from the Group of Eight, supposedly Australia’s top universities – decent, intelligent, and anti-racist overseas students will sensibly and indignantly think twice about Australia as a university study destination.
Final comments and conclusions.
While Senator Mehreen Faruqi (Deputy Leader of Australian Greens) and Nick Riemer (President of the University of Sydney branch of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU)) have unequivocally condemned the horrific, ongoing Gaza Genocide, Australian universities are collectively and shamefully following mendacious Australian Mainstream media, and the repellent Labor-Coalition Duopoly in obfuscating and hiding the Gaza Genocide with false, hysterical and Zionist-inspired assertions of on-campus “antisemitism” and of a supposed threat to “social cohesion” from student human rights protesters. Some of the key conclusions are set out below.
(1). Australian universities, Australian Mainstream media and the Australian Labor Government-Coalition Opposition Duopoly fail the moral challenge of the ongoing Gaza Genocide. Each day the World faces the moral challenge of the ongoing Gaza Massacre, and Gaza Genocide (The Lancet: 186,000 killed from violence and imposed deprivation with this estimated to include 136,000 children, 17,000 women, 33,000 men, 500 health workers and 150 journalists). How have the World, Australia and Australia’s 43 universities responded? A succinct answer is provided by the following Letter sent to major Australian Mainstream media and informed by the recent UNGA Resolution demanding Apartheid Israeli withdrawal from the Occupied Palestinian Territory [47]:
LETTER: “The World faces the daily moral challenge of the ongoing Gaza Genocide (The Lancet: 186,000 Palestinians, mostly children, killed by violence and imposed deprivation). Only 18 out of 43 (42%) of the European countries of the UN voted Yes to the 2024 UNGA Resolution demanding that Apartheid Israel cease its illegal, war criminal, racist and genocidal Occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory whereas 106 out of 150 (71%) of the non-European countries voted Yes. Under a Labor Government Australia refused to vote Yes but was trenchantly criticized by the even worse Coalition Opposition for not voting No. Non-Whites are now 24% of the Australian population and Whites 76% but 95% of executive positions are held by Whites in a continuing racist White Australia. Those buying goods and services from Australians or indeed bonking Australians must seriously consider whether they, like the repellent Labor-Coalition Duopoly, are racist, anti-Arab anti-Semitic and unforgivably complicit in genocide in Gaza and the mass murder of Semitic Occupied Palestinian children. Silence is complicity. Universities Australia and the Big Eight have followed the Zionist-perverted Duopoly by ignoring the Gaza Genocide and instead engaging in duplicitous hand-wringing over “social cohesion” and falsely asserted “antisemitism” on campuses”. END LETTER
(2). Memo to Zionist-perverted Australian university managers (grossly overpaid refugees from scholarship): All decent folk and scholars, academics and teachers in particular insist on human rights, free speech and have zero tolerance for lying. While Senator Mehreen Faruqi (Deputy Leader of Australian Greens) and Nick Riemer (President of the University of Sydney branch of the NTEU) clearly condemn the Jewish Israeli-imposed and ongoing Gaza Genocide, Universities Australia (representing Australia’s 43 universities) and the Big Eight (the top 8 Australian universities) ignore the horrific Gaza Genocide and instead adopt the Zionist, Apartheid Israel, Australian Mainstream media, and Labor-Coalition Duopoly line of false, hysterical and Gaza Genocide-obscuring assertions of on-campus “antisemitism” and of threats to “social cohesion”. Mainstream Australia-backed Israeli Apartheid means 5.6 million Occupied Palestinians are denied self-determination, the right to vote and all the human rights set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 2.1 million Israeli Palestinians can vote but are subject to 65 Nazi-style, race-based discriminatory laws, and 7 million Exiled Palestinians are forbidden to set foot in the Land continuously inhabited by Indigenous Palestinians for over 3,000 years [29]. Free speech is fundamental to democracy and scholarship but is constrained and threatened by Codes of Conduct in corporatized Australian universities, and by the Labor-Coalition Duopoly that seeks to exclude most children from social media (X-owner Elon Musk trenchantly commenting: “Fascists”) [5]. Academics, scholars, students and indeed all sensible people have zero tolerance for lying, an obscenity that is entrenched in the mendacious Mainstream media and Labor-Coalition Duopoly, noting that lying by omission is far, far worse than repugnant lying by commission because the latter can at least permit public refutation and public debate (subject to Mainstream gate-keepers, of course). Of course Mainstream Australian lying in the interests of a foreign state seriously inimical to Australia such as Apartheid Israel is treason.
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[2].Gideon Polya, “Racist & Lying Australian & Western Mainstream Disappear 186,000 Gaza Genocide Deaths”, Countercurrents, 18 July 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/07/racist-lying-australian-western-mainstream-disappear-186000-gaza-genocide-deaths/ .
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[5]. Gideon Polya, “Elon Musk Responds “Fascists” To Australian Labor Government-Coalition Opposition Duopoly War On Children & Global Free Speech”, Countercurrents, 18 September 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/09/elon-musk-responds-fascists-to-australian-labor-government-coalition-opposition-duopoly-war-on-children-global-free-speech/ .
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[16]. Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”, 2nd edition, Korsgaard Publishing, 2021.
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[20]. Gideon Polya, “AUKUS & Quad In Context: Australia Violates All Indo-Pacific countries”, Countercurrents, 9 December 2021: https://countercurrents.org/2021/12/aukus-quad-in-context-australia-violates-all-indo-pacific-countries/ .
[21]. Gideon Polya, “Australia violates all Indo-Pacific countries”, Stop state terrorism, 9 December 2021: https://sites.google.com/site/stopstateterrorism/2021-12-09-australia-violates-all-indo-pacific-countries .
[22]. Gideon Polya, “Paris Atrocity Context: 27 Million Muslim Avoidable Deaths From Imposed Deprivation In 20 Countries Violated By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 22 November, 2015: https://countercurrents.org/polya221115.htm .
[23]. Jewish Voices for Peace, “First ever: 40+ Jewish groups worldwide oppose equating antisemitism with criticism of Israel”, 17 July 2018: https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/first-ever-40-jewish-groups-worldwide-oppose-equating-antisemitism-with-criticism-of-israel/#english .
[24]. Gideon Polya, “Melbourne University Adopts Anti-Semitic & Holocaust-Ignoring IHRA Definition Of Anti-Semitism”, Countercurrents, 5 February 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/02/melbourne-university-adopts-anti-semitic-holocaust-ignoring-ihra-definition-of-anti-semitism/ .
[25]. Gideon Polya, “Zionists & Pro-Zionist, US Lackey Australian Government Threaten Australian Academic Free Speech”, Countercurrents, 7 March 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/03/zionists-pro-zionist-us-lackey-australian-government-threaten-australian-academic-free-speech/ .
[26]. Gideon Polya, “A Shocking List of 52 Zionist- & Apartheid Israeli-Nazi Germany Comparisons”, Countercurrents, 7 August 2021: https://countercurrents.org/2021/08/a-shocking-list-of-52-zionist-apartheid-israeli-nazi-germany-comparisons/ .
[27]. Gideon Polya, “Swastika Ban Exposes Pro-Apartheid Israel, Pro-Apartheid, Zionist & Neo-Nazi Australian Labor Government”, Countercurrents, 20 June 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/06/swastika-ban-exposes-pro-apartheid-israel-pro-apartheid-zionist-neo-nazi-australian-labor-government/ .
[28]. Gideon Polya, “Unrepentant Neo-Nazi Germany Complicit In Palestinian Genocide & Ongoing Gaza Massacre”, Countercurrents, 11 April 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/04/unrepentant-neo-nazi-germany-complicit-in-palestinian-genocide-ongoing-gaza-massacre/ .
[29]. Gideon Polya, “Australia must stop Zionist subversion and join the World in comprehensive Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Apartheid Israel and all its supporters”, Subversion of Australia, 15 April 2021: https://sites.google.com/site/subversionofaustralia/2021-04-15 .
[30]. Gideon Polya, “Pro-Zionist Australia’s Shame: Censoring Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Managers Cancel Pianist Jayson Gillham Over Gaza”, Countercurrents, 21 August 2024: https://countercurrents.org/2024/08/pro-zionist-australias-shame-censoring-melbourne-symphony-orchestra-managers-cancel-pianist-jayson-gillham-over-gaza/ .
[31]. Gideon Polya, “Coalition and Labor politicians supporting Apartheid” in Tasmanian Times, “MSO compromising freedom of expression”, 14-16 August 2024: https://tasmaniantimes.com/2024/08/mso-compromising-freedom-of-expression/ .
[32]. Gideon Polya, “Apartheid Israel Among World’s Leading Countries For Militarization, Violence, Abuse And Genocide”, Countercurrents, 16 May 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/05/apartheid-israel-among-worlds-leading-countries-for-militarization-violence-abuse-and-genocide/ .
[33]. Gideon Polya, “Cowardly US Lackey Australian Labor Government Betrays Promises, Australia, Palestine, and Humanity”, Countercurrents, 20 November 2022: https://countercurrents.org/2022/11/cowardly-us-lackey-australian-labor-government-betrays-promises-australia-palestine-and-humanity/ .
[34]. Gideon Polya, “Review: “The Palestine Laboratory” By Antony Loewenstein – Apartheid Israel Exports Surveillance Nightmare”, Countercurrents, 29 August 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/08/review-the-palestine-laboratory-by-antony-loewenstein-apartheid-israel-exports-surveillance-nightmare/ .
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Dr Gideon Polya taught science students at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia over 4 decades. He published some 130 works in a 5 decade scientific career, notably a huge pharmacological reference text “Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds” (2003). He has also published “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” (2007, 2021), “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History” (1998, 2008, 2022), “US-imposed Post-9-11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide” (2020), “Climate Crisis, Climate Genocide & Solutions” (2020), “Free Palestine. End Apartheid Israel, Human Rights Denial, Gaza Massacre, Child Killing, Occupation and Palestinian Genocide” (2024), and contributed to Soren Korsgaard (editor) “The Most Dangerous Book Ever Published – Dangerous Deception Exposed!” (2020). For images of Gideon Polya’s huge paintings for the Planet, Peace, Mother and Child see: http://sites.google.com/site/artforpeaceplanetmotherchild/ .
