ON ANTISEMITISM
We’re growing tired of the constant talk about antisemitism, but not because we don’t care about Jewish safety or history, but rather the sense that antisemitism is condemned more strongly than other forms of racism. While antisemitism is taken very seriously, racism against Muslims, Indigenous Australians, refugees, or other minorities often gets less attention or is treated as more open to debate. Over time, this uneven focus leads to resentment and doubt, especially among those who believe all prejudice should be addressed equally. Simply put, we’re sick of the constant bang-on.
People are also frustrated with how the word itself is used in public discourse. It’s often used too loosely or for convenience, especially when criticism of Israel or its military is quickly mixed up with hatred of Jewish people. When real political criticism gets confused with bigotry, people don’t stop caring about antisemitism; they start to lose trust in the whole conversation. This loss of trust deepens when the media and politicians repeat the same points, use moralising language, or adopt a tone that feels more accusatory than helpful.
Australians usually value fairness and don’t like it when one group’s suffering is treated as more important than that of others. When antisemitism is seen as especially terrible but other types of religious or racial hatred are ignored, we don’t downplay antisemitism; we just reject the idea that it should be treated differently. The tiredness you see is less about dislike for Jews and more about a belief that if we want to fight bigotry, we need to fight all of it, honestly and fairly, without using one group’s pain to shut down talk about others.
As the child of Holocaust survivors, I find it deeply offensive and even enraging to see my parents’ suffering invoked as moral cover for present-day hatred or to excuse the actions of the Jewish state, because their trauma was about the catastrophic consequences of dehumanisation, not a licence to inflict it on others. To weaponise that history in defence of injustice doesn’t honour the victims of the Holocaust; it distorts their memory and betrays the very lessons their suffering should have taught us. I say to that cunt Netanyahu, that cunt Trump, and any other world leader cunt who persists in justifying the indiscriminate slaughter of innocent children in my parents' name... please stop.
Lastly, and I think most importantly, it’s crucial to understand that the antisemitism of the last 80 or so years didn’t happen in a vacuum. It’s a response to 77 years of illegal occupation, oppression, ethnic cleansing, forced displacement, home demolitions, blockades, collective punishment, arbitrary detention and torture, settler violence, the indiscriminate murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent, defenceless, unarmed civilians... exacerbated more recently by the inciteful rhetoric from media and politicians, the toxic diatribe and threats from the Jewish lobby, the realistic perception that the Jewish lobby has a voice-to-Parliament but other groups miss out, and a few false flag incidents thrown in for good measure.
